Free Kirk
Americannoun
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"General," suddenly relaxing, "this is the Free Kirk minister of yir pairish, an' a 'm jidgin' he 'll no try the second again."
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
It was celebrated in the Free Kirk school-room for girls! and with a congregation under twenty, most attentive though very small, and no one left the room when we came to the Holy Communion.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
"Angus Strachan, sir, and I come frae Ettrick, and I hae my lines frae the minister o' the Free Kirk."
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
Na, na; I'm a widow o' good character, and a member o' the Free Kirk, and it would ill set me to play such tricks.
From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren
There were exactly ten Free Kirk families from Tochty Lodge eastwards, and some of these still speak with feeling of the attention they received, which exceeded all they had ever known before or since.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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