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They may be squirting their hormone-raised beefburgers with mayonnaise, but our ways with a bottle – it makes little difference whether it's Buckie-guzzling in the bus stop, or the drip-drip-drip of Costières de Nîmes at the reclaimed rectory table – mean that we're as cancer-prone as the Americans, and thus we've really got to watch it.
Accusing us of filming illegally, the priest led both me and the cameraman into the rectory … and locked us in.After a few minutes we tried to escape, and were violently blocked by the cleric.
Cavell was a daughter of the rectory , just as Mr Brown is a son of the manse.
Since that awful night, she has been living in the rectory attached to her local church.
In this new, more coherent collection, the poems are printed in groupings that correspond roughly to the way in which they appeared in volumes published during MacNeice's lifetime, allowing the reader to chart the often serendipitous workings of a poet's mind.MacNeice was the precocious son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, growing up in an often chilly Carrickfergus rectory.
Michael Fallon, the energy minister, has suggested it could test the thickness of rectory walls in middle England.
He also highlights the later American fascination with European style and English aristocracy that led to the marriages and mansions of the great 19th-century tycoons.Even the most unpromising rooms in Mr Bryson's rectory provide food for thought, such as the miserable provision made for the servants, an all but invisible presence in the grand old days of yore.
John Wesley's chapel in London is undergoing a £1.5m renovation; the rectory he grew up in is being turned back from a guesthouse into a tourist attraction.Fans of multiple use claim it puts redundant churches back into the centre of a community.
They speculate on the reason for this conflict: perhaps the couple, having each of them grown up in houses with large, traditional gardens, are trying to accommodate their memory of a "huge, old rectory within the confines of their 7.5m x 18m (25ft x 60ft) urban patch .It is hard not to be excited by what the contemporary designers are doing.
To enter the graveyard, you have to walk along a little path between the rectory and the parish hall, open a picket-fence gate and climb over piles of fallen leaves.When I first visited the cemetery several years ago, Allen Smith, then the church warden, described it as "God's one-half acre".
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE fruits of Bill Bryson's fluent and amusing writing have been fame and fortune, so he now lives in one of the most desirable dwellings in the world: an old rectory in an English country village.
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The noun "rectory" functions primarily as a designator , specifically identifying the residence associated with a rector. Ludwig examples showcase its use in describing locations, historical contexts, and architectural features of these residences. According to Ludwig AI, the term is well-established in English.
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The Guardian - Lifestyle
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