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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

Fleeing the law in Europe, the resourceful parson resurfaced as “Principal of the Anglican Divinity School in Ceylon.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020

Despite there being two servants to look after the modestly sized parsonage and one modestly sized parson, Emily made a case for needing to be onsite as an extra housekeeper.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018

In a dreary Yankee prison, the rebel confronts his mortal fate before a parson.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2018

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.

From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014

When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Jolly good luck to you," shrilled the old ladies as the parsons departed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of the sunny optimism that glowed through the hard years in California, there was little more than grasshoppers and blizzards in answer to the prayers of country parsons.

From Time Magazine Archive

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