parsonish
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They go the wrong way to work; they are too parsonish, too much of the old wife, and even the old apple wife.
From The Ebb-Tide by Osbourne, Lloyd
They go the wrong way to work; they are too parsonish, too much of the old wife, and even the old apple-wife.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
