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
The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.
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
“You may have the yew tree,” the parson said.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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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
Ah, say the parsons, then why not “disclose” any AI use?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.
From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014
The eleven Texas parsons now serving had to resign their parishes because replacements would not accept parishes on a "duration" basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be—the kind that was hand and glove with parsons.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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