sarmon

In such a battered condition was it left that the parish Registers tell us that no baptism nor "sarmon" took place within its walls for a year

Northumberland Yesterday and To-day 1908

Dun yo 'remember that sarmon yo' once preached fro '"Jacob have I luved, but Esau have I hated"?

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Amos Entwistle talks abaat that sarmon naa, and tells bits on it o'er to th 'childer i' th 'catechism class, and then maks

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

-- "On the hull," said he, "I liked your sarmon tolerable well, Brother Pendlam; but it warn't one o 'your best; and if anybody else had preached it, I should have thought it contained a little dangerous doctrine."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

"Was that all the sarmon?" said a woman who was an interested listener.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

I once yerd a grond sarmon fro 'that text i' th 'pulpit up aboon here; and when it were oer, Dickey o' Sams o 'the

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

"Don't fergit about dat sarmon," said old Brad, "I'm gwine tuh look fer yo 'at de chutch termorrer."

Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905

"Yes, sir," said Allen; [ "] dat's a mighty good tex ', and hit will be mine for my Sunday sarmon."

Reminiscences of the Civil War 1904

I wouldn't a-keered a gosh durn, but he woke me up Wall, about the time the minister wuz a-gittin 'through with his sarmon, he sed, "Now all members of the congregation having babies here to-day and wantin' of them baptized after the sarmon is over, bring them up to the pulpit and I will baptize them. "

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

"This is to give notice! as there won't be no sarmon, nor no more service this mornin ', so you'd better all go whum (home); and there won't be no sarvice this afternoon, as the rector ain't got his artful teeth back from the dentist!"

The Parish Clerk 1892