sidesman

As we rose from our knees one Sunday a sidesman said, ` Vicar, I wish you would pray for my boy.

The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

The sidesman gave him a prayer book and a hymn book, and he chose a seat towards the back, because the order of the service was still strange to him and from there he could see when other people knelt, and when they stood.

On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957

'You're a sidesman and a trustee, and the Lord alone knows what all.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

When he began to make money, he went over to the Church and took the plate round at collecting time, and got to be a sidesman, and a trustee, and I don't know what all.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

In the entrance, Miss Campanula had posted Sergeant Roper, of the Chipping Constabularly, and sidesman of St. Giles.

Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

He managed to elude the solicitations of a sidesman and slip into a seat facing the aisle in the back row where he sat with his long hands clasped round his knee.

Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

The sidesman gave him a prayer book and a hymn book, and he chose a seat towards the back, because the order of the service was still strange to him and from there he could see when other people knelt, and when they stood.

On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1936

Evensong was half over when the preacher arrived, and the church being full Mark was given a chair by the sidesman in a dark corner, which presently became darker when Father Rowley went up into the pulpit, for all the lights were lowered except those above the preacher's head, and nothing was visible in the church except the luminous crucifix upon the High Altar.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

People spoke, when they spoke at all, in whispers, and John was so infected by the air of solemnity that when a small boy in the gallery began to call out "Acid drops or cigarettes!" he felt that a sidesman must appear from a pew and take the lad to the police-station for brawling in a sacred edifice.

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

A sidesman, with an air of portentous gravity, as one who, in opening doors, performed an office more on behalf of the Deity than the worshippers, was usually at hand to usher the party in.

Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907