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Meanings of circuit rider in English

Spanish
ministro itinerante

Travelling Christian evangelist.

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ministro itinerante

Practice of travelling between court locations.

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Usage of circuit rider in English
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Now and then a circuit rider gets here and preaches to us.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
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The hired man delivered himself with the intonation somewhat of a circuit rider.
A Knight of the Cumberland
3
The old circuit rider and his wife had gone to bed.
The Heart of the Hills
4
It was Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist divine and circuit rider.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
5
That were a mighty good sermon circuit rider preached last night.
Rose of Old Harpeth
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And Mavis had left the old circuit rider and come to live with her.
The Heart of the Hills
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The lad turned to go, and the old circuit rider rose to his full height.
The Heart of the Hills
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I was born to it, as the circuit rider says, as the sparks fly upward.
The Heart of the Hills
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The sturdy circuit rider stood against it for a second until Abe sprang his bow.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
10
These two, the town preacher and the young circuit rider, read to each other J.W.
John Wesley, Jr. / The Story of an Experiment
11
The other circuit rider was young, handsome and zealous, and was doing a great work in converting young girls.
Half a Century
12
He was a circuit rider, a traveling man who had made quite a living in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.
The man who ate the 747
13
He was a circuit rider.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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And I have often wondered why the monument builders have never thought to raise a statue to the Methodist circuit rider.
A Circuit Rider's Wife
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The circuit rider is not only a priest to his people, but he is a good deal of a mendicant besides.
A Circuit Rider's Wife
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Where was the great glare of yellow light that the " circuit rider" had told about-andthe leaping tongues of fire?
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
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