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Usage examples of parishioners.

The minister was often consulted by his parishioners upon spiritual matters, and was in the habit of receiving in his study visitors who came with such intent.

Vicar, and thinking that all would be well if he were only once more in their midst, one of his parishioners brought a horse, designing to walk by him all the way from Bristol to Madeley Two or three others came and entreated him to travel home in a post-chaise, but his physicians forbade his return to the scene of his old labours, and his parishioners, perforce, returned disappointed.

He had sometimes thought of buying a small plot of land and leaving it as an inheritance to one of his parishioners on condition that a sheltered corner be reserved for his car to rest in, but there was not one parishioner whom he could trust to carry out his wish, and in any case a slow death by rust could not be avoided and perhaps a crusher at a scrapyard would be a more merciful end.

A question often asked of him by grieving parishioners was how could God allow such madness?

His parishioners must never know of his doubts - they needed his firm guidance.

None of his parishioners mentioned it, but he had caught certain looks in the eyes of the forest keepers.

Fletcher, who had visited two parishioners who were dying of the pestilence, was herself stricken.

You cannot well imagine how much the animosity of my parishioners is heightened, and with what boldness it discovers itself against me, because I preached against drunkenness, shows, and bull-baiting.

But as for him scaring any of his parishioners, it was, when she came to think of it, ridiculous, for his attitude towards them, she considered, was over-conciliatory, except when he was in the pulpit.

Colman led the way to the room in which he received parishioners and invited him to be seated.

Apart from my personal regard, these people were my parishioners, and their trust was my charge.

The pews were the usual oblong ones, with a ledge before the parishioners to support hymn books.