Free Kirk
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Free Kirker noun
Example Sentences
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Four hundred clergymen threw up their livings one day and went out to begin a Free Kirk, where there are no patrons.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian
As the respectable Free Kirk elder who sat next Mr. McGuffie did not respond to this friendly offer, Mr. McGuffie put a straw in his mouth and timed the arrival of the Provost.
From Young Barbarians by Maclaren, Ian
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 Maclaren, Ian
To be a professor of anything in the Free Kirk College might imply that a man was hampered as to words and views.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur
The secession of Chalmers on the issue of State patronage resulted in the founding of the Free Kirk.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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