Sentence Examples
The cleared land will aid the regeneration of Parson Cross that may include more accommodation for the elderly. |
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The Country Parson being to administer the Sacraments, is at a stand with himself, how or what behavior to assume for so holy things. |
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Parson wondered if Ryder would get mad if he gave her some food, she looked awfully skinny. |
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Who is Parson Brown, and why are these people making a snowman that looks like him? |
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By his own request, Parson, who's gay, will now be on street patrol duty in the capital's rapidly gentrifying Columbia Heights neighborhood. |
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It was a complete confessional somersault. In 1890 Dr. Parson seemed to have an attack of symbolophobia. Fortunately for him and the Church, it did not last long. |
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One of the Scottish artist's typically sentimental compositions, it showed a Dandie Dinmont and a Parson Russell Terrier waiting for their supper. |
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Parson Brooke was transferred in a couple of years to the Southwark mint, on dissolution of which he won back to the Tower, there to experiment with machinery in Mary's reign. |
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Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills. |
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It is brought home to me in one of the few permitted churches, where the parson has to submit his sermons to the censors a month in advance. |
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He seized the parson by the chin and ears and yerked him upwards several times. |
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He wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people. |
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In many ways he was unsuited to the life of a country parson, and he chafed under the restrictions. |
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The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life. |
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In many ways Sterne was unsuited to the life of a country parson, and he chafed under the restrictions. |
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The parson told the magistrates that he knew nothing of his niece's whereabouts until he saw the notice in the newspapers. |
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This seems especially true of recent fiction written by people who have never served a parish as its parson. |
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But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced. |
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Does the idea of a club having its own priest, reverend, or parson seem ridiculous? |
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He was a humorous and gentle pastor of his flock, a good parson who put up a new poster every week to attract people to come to his church. |
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He was a good parson, and I am happy to have been introduced to his life by such a reliable biographer. |
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In 1671 he and Maria disguised themselves as a parson and his wife. They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction. |
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Step up to the office, examine the stock, take your pick, pay your money and drive to the parson. |
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The parson had assured him that I was a hard worker, so he took me. |
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Soon she is the quarry of both the parson, who wants to keep her innocence intact, and the hard-drinking, fox-hunting squire, who wants his wicked way with her. |
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Scenes of Clerical Life was widely believed to have been written by a country parson or perhaps the wife of a parson. |
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Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson. |
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There are no talkable people within ten miles, except a coast-guard officer, and a pleasant parson, three miles off. |
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With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely. |
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The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. |
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Presumably the devil himself had made the parson pay for desecrating the kistvaens. |
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I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike. |
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The young graduate, Charles Darwin, had hoped to see the tropics before becoming a parson, and took this opportunity. |
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Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1830 and became a country parson. |
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When the living became vacant in 1881, he was able to appoint himself to it, becoming parson as well as squire. |
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From the tough guys forced to dress as women to the prim parson reluctantly press-ganged into working with the prisoners to save his harpsichord from being heaved overboard. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
After due inquiry, and a quantum sufficit of preaching on probation, they decided on giving a call to Parson Brocklebank. |
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But Fielding more than atones for all the rest by the creation of Parson Adams. |
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There is no mention of Parson Trulliber's pipe, but that pig-breeder and lover can hardly have been a non-smoker. |
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Her father had been the only son of Parson Quayle, and chaplain to the bishop at Bishopscourt. |
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A Parson and neighbour prat interfere to convey them to jail for the disturbance, but are themselves badly mauled. |
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Parson Dorrance had in his youth been settled as a congregationalist minister. |
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First Mrs. slipslop incommodes the framework by her intrusion, and then Parson Adams enters to complete the disaster. |
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Running at the top of their speed the railers came to Ben, telling how the Parson had put them to shame. |
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The Parson blurted an expletive, inflected like the profane. |
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The Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me. |
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Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here. |
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Parson viewed the matter in very much the same light as telson had. |
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Niplightly was worming his way out at the back of Parson Quiggin. |
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Parson Jones lifted out one of the bags, and it jingled as he did so. |
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The Clerk, the Cook, the Parson and the Manciple are all part of which literary work? |
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We set there as solemn as if parson was preachin' to us on 'lection and predestination. |
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It is a heart-searching and heart-revealing relation, that of a parish to its parson. |
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The people at Sea-Acres felt the attraction and tried to lionize the dark, tall parson with the glowing, indifferent eyes. |
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And when I was brought to the font, the parson could not christen me for tittering. |
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The parson had bent forward, and was eyeing her curiously, yet with benevolence. |
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And while the tucket was sounding, Bennet moved close to the bewildered parson, and whispered violently in his ear. |
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The parson is very brisk when he reaches the minatory clause in his sermon. |
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He cites the burial fees paid to the parson as twice as much for coffined as for uncoffined corpses. |
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But every dog has his day, and carline may be as grate a airass as no other guess parson. |
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An' sure if he tuck as much as he could from huz, an' GeV as little as he could to the parson, wasn't it all so much the betther? |
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I am as sober as the nonconforming parson of the church that Miss Castlemaine attends. |
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Then the parson had his first inkling that the strange visitor must be mad. |
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So, when you guessed at the date, and told parson to have the celebration then, you got it right? |
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He and his friend Mr. Cooper, the parson of callan, were robbed of all their horses, and thus deprived of the means of escape. |
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The post-chaise is here to carry us to wootton, where the parson waits to marry us. |
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When the parson rose, he turned to Elvin, less like the pastor than the familiar friend. |
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But the mere trooth is, parson, I'm pestered by them promises I makes deeceased. |
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An early adventure was to force a pot-valiant parson, who had drunk a cup too much at a wedding, into a rarely farcical situation. |
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The parson had seated himself by the stove, and was laboriously removing his arctics. |
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The like of me to preach to a parson, all regular done up, bands and cassock and shovel hat and all! |
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He was a remittance man, who received each month from his father, a Dorset parson, a letter and a cheque. |
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The dignity a parson derives from the lawn sleeves and square cap of his diocesan will never endanger his humility. |
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Church, parson, clerk, beadle, glass-coach, bells, breakfast, bride-cake, favours, marrow-bones, cleavers, and all the rest of the tomfoolery. |
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The parson tried vainly to struggle out of his bewilderment. |
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Drayton made up to Greta and the parson with an air of braggadocio. |
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The ideal parson, that is, should be a squire in canonical dress. |
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The parson was acutely moved for the anguish he had not probed. |
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It would be of no use to go to Uppercross again, for that other Miss Musgrove, I find, is bespoke by her cousin, the young parson. |
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Taking a step nearer to the gangway, the old parson talked faster. |
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Before long the sexton came by and saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls. |
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Now take the case of that young parson from Glendale fer instance. |
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The parson in his silk cassock, and his helpmate in brown damask. |
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The service was soon done, and then the parson delivered a homily. |
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The hotelkeeper had told him how to find it, and the name of the parson. |
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As the parson has ever gone band in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism. |
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Don't you preach, parson, but put on your boots and come out for a tramp, instead of mulling over the fire like a granny. |
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They told him, jeeringly, that the parson had treated them with some wine. |
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But the parson knows Juan, and proceeds to examine his tithe. |
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Mr. lamington is sending up a parson from the Bay to Minerva Downs. |
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Gray-coat parson, a lay impropriator, or lessee of great tithes. |
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I think that parson who unearthed your pedigree would have done better if he had held his tongue. |
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Mr. moneybags in the front pew has got a strangle hold on the parson. |
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Born at Pinegas, Montgomeryshire, the son of the parson of that place. |
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On the way home from India he had said unrepeatable things to a parson. |
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I says, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it. |
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Such thoughts were obsessing, also, the parson of the parish. |
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The oppressors of the parson had been the oppressors of the squire. |
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And Wickens, with a smile expressive of his sense of having retorted effectively upon the parson, nodded and walked away. |
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There was a parson, or predikant, also accompanying the commandos. |
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He told Arch he was a prig and a parson, and Arch told him he wasn't a gentleman. |
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Did you ever see any parson a wearing mourning for the devil? |
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The letter began by expressing the writer's unfeigned joy at d'Urberville's conversion, and thanked him for his kindness in communicating with the parson on the subject. |
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Arif Yampolsky playing Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson, incurs the duel-inciting wrath of Doctor Caius when he asks Mistress Quickly to help him match Anne with Slender. |
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Fairholme, glad of an opportunity to show that he was no mealy mouthed parson, declared, when applied to, that Smilash was the greatest rogue in the country. |
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