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�Butnot here, �headded, hearing the clank of the verger�skeys.
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The vergers in our great cathedrals have a dignified stride.
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You will therefore find the cathedral closed to you until the vergers have dined.
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But the vergers are waiting to close the Abbey.
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You see those vergers standing near my brothers, who gave up their seats to us.
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The old vergers and bedesmen came; some of the clergy came; Judy came; and the dean came.
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The parish clerk bowed low before him, and the vergers humbled themselves into the dust in his presence.
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They streamed in until the stately black-gowned vergers were quite worried to find seats for the late comers.
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Break into laughter, if you feel inclined, provided the vergers do not hear it echoing among the arches.
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Then the procession formed, and they entered the wonderful place, preceded by vergers with staves, and by acolytes.
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Take him out and burn him alive. The vergers made a dash for him-butGeorge's brothers seized them.
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The vergers have discovered it.
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Upon the conclusion of service, the dean lingered a few minutes in the nave, speaking to one of the vergers.
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At this moment one of the vergers of the Cathedral entered the room to say that Mr. Meynell was waiting below.
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But the church was nearly empty, and the vergers, who were in their everyday clothes, had only partially lit up the nave.
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This latter iconoclast is in especially bad odor with the sextons and vergers of most of the old churches which I have visited.