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
Fleeing the law in Europe, the resourceful parson resurfaced as “Principal of the Anglican Divinity School in Ceylon.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020
The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018
“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
In fact, after he had given up the idea of medicine, both Charles and his father thought he was going to be a country parson.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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