bethel
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
This over, the place began in earnest its distinctive career. fish island. seamen’s bethel and sailor’s home. merchants’ and mechanics’ bank.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various
The bethel was in itself a very neat affair.
From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings
Sometimes I’m almost persuaded to be converted, and take the boss position in a bethel, all amongst the tea and wimmen-folk.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)
There are morning and evening and weekly newspapers; clubs and reading-rooms and bowling alleys; billiard halls and barrooms; schools and bethels.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio
During the last years of paganism the neo-Platonists developed a superstitious worship of the bethels; see Conybeare, Transactions of the Congress of Hist. of Rel.,
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz
With regard to the Babylonian bethels, very little can be said, their true nature being uncertain, and their number, to all appearance, small.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
It has societies, “homes,” and bethels for his benefit, and a fine marine hospital.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
