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
The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2018
The mission failed, and Thomas was immortalized as “the parson of the islands.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2017
“The point is not what I see, but what I feel,” he explains to the local parson, William Ransome.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017
With the first blow to the roof, the front door flew open, and the parson and his wife fled in terror.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
Ah, say the parsons, then why not “disclose” any AI use?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The parsons of the press corps then moved en masse to get a comment from the Journal, which in this case meant me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.
From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014
The parsons attended lectures religiously, listened intently, made reams of notes during morning, afternoon and evening lectures.
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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