were ministering
- past progressive of minister.
Example Sentences
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Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, he moved uneasily when he thought of the soft bed and the kindly hands that were ministering to the son of his enemy.
From From the Valley of the Missing by White, Grace Miller
"Aye, love Him--I, too, love Him?" she longed to cry out to those who were ministering to Him.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
And it was in the spring of this same year that in Collace, at our weekly prayer-meeting, when two brethren were ministering, we received a blessed shower from the Lord.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
He was again a helpless invalid, and the kind farmer and his excellent wife were ministering, as before, to his comfort.
From Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
