Vestry

(noun.) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held.

(noun.) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church.

录入:昆西

• On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But the position of the original in the vestry was, as I had seen with my own eyes, anything but secure. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I'm obliged to bring you this way, sir, he said, because the door from the vestry to the church is bolted on the vestry side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He's vestry-clerk here now as his father was before him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The vestry at the back was built out from the church, and seemed to be of the same age. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The keys of the vestry. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am not quite sure that I know what a vestry-clerk is. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This door also was composed of solid oak, and was bolted at the top and bottom on the vestry side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then they went into the vestry and signed the register. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I agreed with him that nobody could help the untidiness of the vestry, and then suggested that we should proceed to our business without more delay. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The vestry was on fire! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You'll find a fire in the vestry, on account of the painters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Chattering on in this way, he led me back to the vestry. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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