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
“Then,” the Apothecary said, shutting his door on the parson, “there is nothing I can do to help you.”
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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