Bible-reader

In the first room there is a birth, in another a death, in a third a sordid drinking-bout, and the detective and the Bible-reader cross upon the stairs.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

We go up to it and I find it is the habitation of a Basel Mission black Bible-reader.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Thus was Laura encouraged, put on her mettle; and soon there was no more audacious Bible-reader in the class than she.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

I thank the Bible-reader and say that I will pay him for the house, and I and the men go in streaming, and my teeth chatter with cold as the breeze chills my saturated garment while I give out the rations of beef, rum, blankets, and tobacco to the men.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The Bible-reader of that district tells me that Mrs. Torrence wont listen to her, wont let her go into the room.

A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett

She held her fingers in her ears last Sunday while the Bible-reader was here.

Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

It may be sadly true; but it sounds, put in that way, like a claim that he is the one conscientious and regular Bible-reader among them.

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

He was a great Bible-reader, Mr. Wace was, and had a beautiful assortment of texts at his command; but that day he used such dreadful language that I was about to leave the table, when he assured me it was all out of Isaiah; and I noticed that whenever the master came Mr. Wace took to the prophets.

The Lady's Maid's Bell 1902

The Bible-reader followed the box, and Bobby, head and tail down, trotted unnoticed, beneath it.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

The Bible-reader sat on an empty beer keg to guard the box, and Bobby climbed on the top and stretched himself above his master.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902