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When the farmer came down half-an-hour later, his wife emerged from the shed in the neighbourhood of the pig-styes, where she had been ministering to the wants of two motherless little pigs.

From North, South and over the Sea by Francis, M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

My hands had suffered by contact with the briars, and I had been ministering to them with my handkerchief; but I fell back upon the slope in my astonishment at this colloquy.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

Here a Baptist minister had been ministering to a small and struggling flock in connection with two other churches out in the county.

From Dorothy Page by Hatcher, Eldridge B.

At that instant one of the younger nurses who had been ministering to the figure upon the bed, lifted up a warning hand.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

Some of these itinerants came to Bedford, and in the parish church, called 'the steeple-house,' in Bedford town, on the 23d of May, 1656, they met John Bunyan, probably after he had been ministering there.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John