Churches

Examples

• But there was a systematic hunt for the copies of Holy Writ, and in many places a systematic destruction of Christian churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• With Ephesus, forty miles from here, where was located another of the seven churches, the case was different. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Theoretically, Mr. Yorke placed all sects and churches on a level. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Early in the morning, I sauntered through the dear old tranquil streets, and again mingled with the shadows of the venerable gateways and churches. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Seven Churches--thus they abbreviate it--came next on the list. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Look at the so-called liberal churches. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The line between the Rebel and Union element in Georgetown was so marked that it led to divisions even in the churches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Houses, gates, churches, haystacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They prowled about the churches and picture-galleries, much in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Useful clocks of wondrous make were described in the annals of the middle ages, especially in Germany, made by monks and others for Kings, monasteries and churches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The liberal and advanced churches recognize this fact by exhibiting a great preoccupation with everyday affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Those prophecies are distinctly leveled at the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are some four hundred churches, but about a fourth of them seem to be named for the Madonna and St. Peter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These new industrial centres were at first without schools, without churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one--the church of Santa Maria dei Frari. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was taken to the churches on solemn occasions--days of fête and state; I was shown the Papal ritual and ceremonial. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I can preserve myself from priests, and from churches; but love steals in unawares! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The medical profes sion, the universities, the churches, the court, the army, the navy, trade, agriculture, and oth er industries were there represented. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They were concerned with religious experience, of which churches and rituals are nothing but the external satisfaction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Shall the doors of churches and school-houses be shut upon them? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There were men in Georgetown who filled all the requirements for membership in these churches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The people in these old lands seem to make churches their specialty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But there are no churches . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Surrounded, too, by vast forests, from which their houses, their churches and their schools must be constructed, these pioneers naturally turned their thoughts toward wood-working machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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