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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
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sexton
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synonyms: sacristan, beadle, verger ???
tags: [christianity]
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Definition:person charged with miscellaneous church duties, such as care of building, ringing the bell, digging graves, etc.
image: by Viktor Vasnetsof, 1871
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I got the sexton, who was digging [a person's] grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid,
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Hamlet: Why, e'en so! and now my Lady Worm's, chapless, and knock'd about the mazzard with a sexton's spade.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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On a stool by the window sat the sexton's wife, Raissa Nilovna.
Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories
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