1 Still holding me fast, he left the church: the three gentlemen came after.
2 In crossing a field, I saw the church spire before me: I hastened towards it.
3 I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.
4 The church, as the reader knows, was but just beyond the gates; the footman soon returned.
5 We set out cold, we arrived at church colder: during the morning service we became almost paralysed.
6 The wedding is to take place quietly, in the church down below yonder; and then I shall waft you away at once to town.
7 No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle.
8 In answer to my inquiries after the use of this article, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead.
9 I noticed them, because, as they saw us, they passed round to the back of the church; and I doubted not they were going to enter by the side-aisle door and witness the ceremony.
10 Again I looked out: we were passing a church; I saw its low broad tower against the sky, and its bell was tolling a quarter; I saw a narrow galaxy of lights too, on a hillside, marking a village or hamlet.
11 The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house.
12 A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates.
13 I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either.
14 During January, February, and part of March, the deep snows, and, after their melting, the almost impassable roads, prevented our stirring beyond the garden walls, except to go to church; but within these limits we had to pass an hour every day in the open air.