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
When a country parson published the first two volumes of the rollicking, digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in 1759, it quickly became a publishing sensation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2017
“If it would save my daughters,” the parson said.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.
From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014
"Jolly good luck to you," shrilled the old ladies as the parsons departed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, though parsons still thundered, Britons were betting more than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
In nineteenth-century England, everyone from country parsons to teenage girls collected butterflies, flowers, even stuffed birds and fossil bones.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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