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Sentence Examples
| 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 wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people. |
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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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| 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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| He seized the parson by the chin and ears and yerked him upwards several times. |
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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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| In many ways he 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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| Yet with his understated brown jacket and grouse-motif tie, he could have been a country parson from the Cotswolds. |
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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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| 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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| He was a parson but also an experienced horseman and a passionate huntsman. |
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| With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely. |
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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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| He created almost unaided a gallery of types missed by Hogarth, many of which persist in British life the antiquarian, the old maid, the harried foreign servant, the pleasantly blowzy barmaid, the decent old parson. |
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| Was it the parson who decreed that one stone, of the same date, should tell friends of the deceased dont weep for me, while recording correctly her call to God's tribunal Johnson has met greater oddities than these. |
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| Any layman was spiritually a priest, though not vocationally a parson. |
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| Accordingly, if one person was assigned the tasks of a parson, he was to dress no differently than other parishioners and, like others, should work with his hands. |
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| At the beginning, they were afraid to lose their culture, but now they can see the utility of the school in the life of every day, some want to learn how to read to become parson. |
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| Moreover, the Director General for Penal Legalization serves as the secretary of the commission, and has the responsibility to follow up the administrative matters relating to parson and clemency. |
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| The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. |
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| Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1830 and became a country parson. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Presumably the devil himself had made the parson pay for desecrating the kistvaens. |
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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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| Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson. |
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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
| 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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| 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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| When the parson rose, he turned to Elvin, less like the pastor than the familiar friend. |
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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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| It is a heart-searching and heart-revealing relation, that of a parish to its parson. |
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| But the mere trooth is, parson, I'm pestered by them promises I makes deeceased. |
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| Then the parson had his first inkling that the strange visitor must be mad. |
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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 parson had bent forward, and was eyeing her curiously, yet with benevolence. |
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| The parson had seated himself by the stove, and was laboriously removing his arctics. |
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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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| We set there as solemn as if parson was preachin' to us on 'lection and predestination. |
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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 post-chaise is here to carry us to wootton, where the parson waits to marry us. |
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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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| I am as sober as the nonconforming parson of the church that Miss Castlemaine attends. |
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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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| So, when you guessed at the date, and told parson to have the celebration then, you got it right? |
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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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| 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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| 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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| They told him, jeeringly, that the parson had treated them with some wine. |
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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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| 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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| Now take the case of that young parson from Glendale fer instance. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| He told Arch he was a prig and a parson, and Arch told him he wasn't a gentleman. |
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| The parson was acutely moved for the anguish he had not probed. |
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| The parson tried vainly to struggle out of his bewilderment. |
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| The ideal parson, that is, should be a squire in canonical dress. |
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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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| 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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| Drayton made up to Greta and the parson with an air of braggadocio. |
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| But the parson knows Juan, and proceeds to examine his tithe. |
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| Mr. moneybags in the front pew has got a strangle hold on the parson. |
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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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| Did you ever see any parson a wearing mourning for the devil? |
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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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| 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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