Kirks

OK I don't know shit about basketball. do you think vinny has some sort of rare synaptic disorder that makes him call kirks "kurt" and kurts "kirk"? when you draft a player one year of college who wasn't a blue chip high school recruit the org needs to bring him along properly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The official religion of Scotland is Presbyterian, with churches traditionally being called "kirks". ❋ Hannah Furness (2012)

December 14th, 2009 12: 36 pm ET kirks toast, too center for repubs and not center enough for general election he cant make it out of the primary unless he flip flops and goes all rogue then he pixxes of chicago electorate bye bye ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't think those two jackets look anything alike. mikle jackets aside, what the hell is up with kirks shoes ...? ❋ Unknown (2008)

So, we have women who, let's say may be involved in sexual activities that are a little -- a little -- if you're going on the internet and looking to be dominated by somebody, want to be somebody's slave you've got a few little sexual kirks there anyway, or if you're a woman who just wants to get some alcohol or drugs, it's amazing what women will do under those conditions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The folk here are civil, and, like the barbarians unto the holy apostle, hae shown me much kindness; and there are a sort of chosen people in the land, for they hae some kirks without organs that are like ours, and are called meeting-houses, where the minister preaches without a gown. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was no heathen fetich he was invoking, but the God of whom he had often preached in Christian kirks. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After the Reformation, the right of choosing their clergyman, at any of those chapels of ease which had formerly been field-kirks, was vested in the freeholders and trustees, subject to the approval of the vicar of the parish. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He had lived in India for over sixteen years now and he was more accustomed to these heathen shrines than to the kirks of his childhood, but still, whenever he saw these strange gods with their multiplicity of arms, their elephant heads, their grotesquely coloured faces and their cobra-hooded masks, he felt a stab of disapproval. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1997)

He formed kirks or congregations -- at least in Montrose and Dundee; the former consisting probably mainly of the lesser gentry in the adjacent districts of Angus and Mearns, and the latter chiefly of the substantial burghers of the town of Dundee. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)

As soon as the plague abated in the city, heedless of the new proofs he then had of the cardinal's relentless determination to capture or trepan him, and the earnest warnings of his northern friends that they could not be answerable for his safety, he took his last farewell of his kirks in Montrose and Dundee. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)

She was always so afraid to put anything forward save Christ, that she was quite satisfied with her little "mud kirks." ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

When she unlocked the Enyong Creek, some were amused at the little kirks and huts she constructed in the bush, and asked what they were worth -- just a few posts plastered with mud, and a sheet or two of corrugated iron. ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

Under the high fir and oak we walked in a still and scented air, aisles lay about and deep recesses, the wind sang in the tops and in the vistas of the trees, so that it minded one of Catholic kirks frequented otherwhere. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Among the family of Presbyterian kirks in Wilmington the youngest is a large brick edifice built in 1871, for sixty-one thousand dollars, on Eighth and Washington streets, able to seat nearly a thousand persons, most comfortably and invitingly furnished, and supplied with lecture -, infant - and Sunday-school-rooms, together with a huge kitchen, suggesting the _agapæ_ or love-feasts of the primitive Christians. ❋ Various (N/A)

That as the Revolution parliament, when ratifying the Confession of Faith, entirely left out the act of Assembly 1647, approving and partly explaining the same (wherein these remarkable words are, "It is further declared, that the Assembly understands some parts of the second article of the 31st chapter, only of kirks not settled or constituted in point of government") as being inconsistent with the Erastian impositions of the magistrate. ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)

Though parish schools, in the later sense, were not yet devised, detailed arrangements were made that the readers at the several kirks should impart religious knowledge and the elements of primary education to the young of the flock, and that those who showed an aptitude for learning and capability of being trained to be of service to kirk or common-weal should have access at various centres to higher training. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)

Wee Free, Episcopalian, and Original Secession ministers, all of whom, together with their kirks, flourished within a four-mile radius of the Castle; the wives to three of the above; three young men and their tutor, being some portion of a reading-party in the village; and Mrs. Cameron-Campbell and her five daughters, from a neighboring dower-house upon the loch. ❋ Unknown (1907)