What is "parson"

Usage examples of "parson".

This attack was commenced by the ladies, but it was continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the parson with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound, being one of those long-winded jokers who, though rather dull at starting game, are unrivalled for their talents in hunting it down.

She is wed to a parson, to a stummicky, bottomy, garlic-smelling parson.

The parson mooned about in smiling serenity, his gloomy aspect gone, now that Stewart had promised to attend to the Murrell matter.

The parson now began to triumph in the success of his peacemaking endeavours, and proceeded to read a lecture against anger, which might perhaps rather have tended to raise than to quiet that passion in some hasty minds.

Now, perhaps, the reflections which we should be here inclined to draw, would alike contradict both these conclusions, and would show that these incidents contribute only to confirm the great, useful, and uncommon doctrine, which it is the purpose of this whole work to inculcate, and which we must not fill up our pages by frequently repeating, as an ordinary parson fills his sermon by repeating his text at the end of every paragraph.

In this condition he left his poor Sophia, and, departing with a very vulgar observation on the effect of tears, he locked the room, and returned to the parson, who said everything he durst in behalf of the young lady, which, though perhaps it was not quite so much as his duty required, yet was it sufficient to throw the squire into a violent rage, and into many indecent reflections on the whole body of the clergy, which we have too great an honour for that sacred function to commit to paper.

And close behind him, side by side, went Wrolf and Periwinkle, and behind them went Maria and Robin, with Wiggins and Zachariah making a pair behind them, and then came Loveday Minette leading little Peterkin Pepper, followed by Prudence Honeybun and all the other children, carrying the Lady and the Bell, singing lustily the song Old Parson had taught them.

Old Parson knows, the whole village knows, Dig weed knows that I am porteress of the Moonacre Gate, but Sir Benjamin does not know.

And when your cousin has left us, we shall have no one but that prosy parson to keep our conversation alive!

She had already said goodbye to Jeanne Rousset and the old parson, Edward Beaufort, and promised to keep in touch with them.

Candlemas, a peasant on Shrove Tuesday, and a parson in Lent, is a man of pluck.

Determined to hound the Frenchman out of the North, Fur Trade Commissioner Ralph Parsons placed three of his toughest subordinates-Alex Stevenson, John Stanners and Bruce Campbell--in charge of mobile trading posts code-named U-X, U-Y and U-Z.

I can remember, at the time Mrs Parsons was attacked I was hanging out near the Superloo in Euston Station with three girls down from Manchester I found singing and dancing a bit.

In the meanwhile there was a glass of sherry to drink while she made a slow-moving conversation with one of the cousins, and then supper, sitting between Uncle Tom and the other cousin--an elaborate meal, with Mrs Parsons explaining in a die-away voice just how long it had taken her to shop for each item they ate, and the unsparing efforts made to offer some of her most cherished recipes to her guests.

She half suspected that at least one of the summaries would reference Alison Whitt, the Hollywood Sign, or the Mayan Grille, but the reports provided nothing except a list of people who were personally known to Marchenko and Parsons.