parson
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Roy is mirrored in turn by the later appearance of another parson, Preston Teagardin, played by Robert Pattinson with the same lip-smacking comic flamboyance he recently brought to “The King.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2020
In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2020
In a dreary Yankee prison, the rebel confronts his mortal fate before a parson.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018
If this strikes you as an unusual view for a parson, you are not alone.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017
One improbable-seeming person who turned his mind to the matter was a country parson named John Michell, who resided in the lonely Yorkshire village of Thornhill.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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