| The two parsons had been simulating an interest in the cloudy firmament as an excuse for not looking at the girls until close at hand. |
| Further, the clergy were enjoined to scriptural reflection, and bishops and parsons instructed to preach at least four times a year. |
| While it was fronted largely by bluff Protestant parsons, it was backed by Stalin's branch office in the Australian Communist Party. |
| Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets. |
| Some blathering parsons say that this blessed Mission is teaching men to talk cant and Puritanism. |
| As to the parsons, I must acquit them honestly of any portion of this charge. |
