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
If this strikes you as an unusual view for a parson, you are not alone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017
Medicine just like the Apothecary refused to make for the parson.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.
From Economist ● Nov. 13, 2014
On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires, and royal functionaires are not related to Christianity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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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