"Catechist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... description." The Indians told Sir Robert that, if a dog proved bad or useless, {207} he was not killed, but was left to die from sheer neglect. Hardly any nation is more barbarous than the Fuegians, but I hear from Mr. Bridges, the Catechist to the Mission, that, "when these savages have a large, strong, and active bitch, they take care to put her to a fine dog, and even take care to feed her well, that her young may be ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... Eustatia; saw an innumerable company of girls catechised, in many bodies, perhaps 100 to a catechist.—Boys taught at one time, girls at another.—The sermon; the preacher wears a cap, which he takes off at the name:—his ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... Sutherland, C-Y. 18 Kenacoil. Settled in Upper Canada in West Gwillimbury. He and his sister were children of James Sutherland, catechist ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce |
