Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Sunday-school .
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Examples
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In her youthful days she had been a regular attendant at church, she also was a valuable teacher in the sabbath-school; but, after marrying Lemuel
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I have know a sabbath-school class, by each member's giving 10, 15, or 25 cents a month, contribute an amount during the year, which previously they would have thought impossible to raise.
The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Sereno D. Clark
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On Monday there were religious services in most of the churches and chapels, where sabbath-school addresses, discourses on the relative duties of husband and wife, and on kindred subjects, were delivered.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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In 1832 this Church had 638 communicants, 294 candidates for baptism, 684 sabbath-school pupils, and 1,388 children in day-schools.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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last night i got a phone call from Ryan, announcing that our illustrious grandparents were passing through town--for it is alumni weekend at the university from which my grandfather graduated. i bailed out of sabbath-school, pleading late night shenanigans my grandparents are REALLY cool sometimes but caught up with them in the sanctuary, where my dutiful cousin had already passed the morning.
good saturday evening, everyone 20_20retrospect 2002
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