Bulstrode's narrative occasionally gave of his early bent towards religion, his inclination to be a preacher, and his association with missionary and philanthropic efforts.
He might have been a missionary.
Ruby Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there's the Sunday school picnic and the missionary concert next month.
She probably imagined that she was thinking about the Aids and their missionary box and the new carpet for the vestry room, but under these reflections was a harmonious consciousness of red fields smoking into pale-purply mists in the declining sun, of long, sharp-pointed fir shadows falling over the meadow beyond the brook, of still, crimson-budded maples around a mirrorlike wood pool, of a wakening in the world and a stir of hidden pulses under the gray sod.
That is, if I don't go out as a foreign missionary.
I'm so homely nobody will ever want to marry me—unless it might be a foreign missionary.
Aunt Wellington and Cousin Gladys and Aunt Mildred and Cousin Sarah had just called in on their way home from a meeting of the missionary society.
The church people took her up and she was in turn a member of the Mission Band, the Girls' Guild and the Young Women's Missionary Society.
At church we had a missionary speaker.
Janet, who has a partner called Carlos, had always been naturally supportive to those around her and, in her early 20s, even wanted to work as a missionary.
There was a book used by the learners in reading called"Dialogues between a Missionary and an Indian",It was a poor performance,full of inconclusive arguments and other commonplaces.
Whatever their planned target, the mortar rounds landed in an orphanage run by a missionary group in the small Vietnamese village.
I've give the missionary societies $2,000,000, but what did I get out of it?
He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready-tied four-in-hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day.