parsonage
Example Sentences
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As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
Four more groups came by, one after another, laughing as they passed by the parsonage.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing parsonage
"The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen
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"The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne" by Anthony Trollope
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