All 35 Uses of
parish
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.†
Chpt Pref.
- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.†
Chpt 1-3
- You speak like a lady—all the parish notice it, and your uncle at Weatherbury is, I have heerd, a large farmer—much larger than ever I shall be.†
Chpt 4-6
- She may have perceived the direction of his face, for she said coaxingly,— "You won't say anything in the parish about having seen me here, will you—at least, not for a day or two?"†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Old Twills wouldn't hire me for more than eleven months at a time, to keep me from being chargeable to the parish if so be I was disabled.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Have ye heard the news that's all over parish?"†
Chpt 7-9
- "I beg yer pardon, but had she any young man courting her in the parish, ma'am?" asked Jacob Smallbury.†
Chpt 7-9
- The parson put it right, but 'twas too late, for the name could never be got rid of in the parish.†
Chpt 10-12
- And we live in two parishes.†
Chpt 10-12
- And shall I put up the banns in my parish, and will you in yours?†
Chpt 10-12
- Still, it was faintly depressing that the most dignified and valuable man in the parish should withhold his eyes, and that a girl like Liddy should talk about it.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Now—the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why" (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it)—"he'll smell and taste that—or I'm a Dutchman."†
Chpt 13-15
- He had not a correspondent on earth, nor was there a possible letter coming to him whose contents the whole parish would not have been welcome to peruse.†
Chpt 13-15
- CHAPTER XVIII BOLDWOOD IN MEDITATION—REGRET Boldwood was tenant of what was called Little Weatherbury Farm, and his person was the nearest approach to aristocracy that this remoter quarter of the parish could boast of.†
Chpt 16-18
- At this period the single opinion in the parish on herself and her doings that she valued as sounder than her own was Gabriel Oak's.†
Chpt 19-21
- It not only emulated the form of the neighbouring church of the parish, but vied with it in antiquity.†
Chpt 22-24
- He is as good as anybody in this parish!†
Chpt 28-30
- We shall be home by three o'clock or so, and can creep into the parish like lambs."†
Chpt 31-33
- Could it be that of the only venturesome woman in the parish—Bathsheba?†
Chpt 37-39
- Yet at this very time, within the same parish, a greater waste had been going on, uncomplained of and disregarded.†
Chpt 37-39
- "I daresay I am a joke about the parish," said Boldwood, as if the subject came irresistibly to his tongue, and with a miserable lightness meant to express his indifference.†
Chpt 37-39
- She belongs by law to our parish; and Mr. Boldwood is going to send a waggon at three this afternoon to fetch her home here and bury her.†
Chpt 40-42
- Hardly anybody in the parish knows the news yet.
Chpt 40-42 *parish = a local church community
- Not but that I should like another nip with ye; but the parish might lose confidence in me if I was seed here.†
Chpt 40-42
- And so she's nailed up in parish boards after all, and nobody to pay the bell shilling and the grave half-crown."†
Chpt 40-42
- "The parish pays the grave half-crown, but not the bell shilling, because the bell's a luxery: but 'a can hardly do without the grave, poor body.†
Chpt 40-42
- Weatherbury tower was a somewhat early instance of the use of an ornamental parapet in parish as distinct from cathedral churches, and the gurgoyles, which are the necessary correlatives of a parapet, were exceptionally prominent—of the boldest cut that the hand could shape, and of the most original design that a human brain could conceive.†
Chpt 46-48
- Knowing that Fanny had been laid in the reprobates' quarter of the graveyard, called in the parish "behind church," which was invisible from the road, it was impossible to resist the impulse to enter and look upon a spot which, from nameless feelings, she at the same time dreaded to see.†
Chpt 46-48
- Out of this there arose, during the spring succeeding, a talk in the parish that Gabriel Oak was feathering his nest fast.†
Chpt 49-51
- Were he to make himself known, that chapter of his life must at all risks be kept for ever from her and from the Weatherbury people, or his name would be a byword throughout the parish.†
Chpt 49-51
- It was not that the rarity of Christmas parties in the parish made this one a wonder, but that Boldwood should be the giver.†
Chpt 52-54
- They walked together into the village until they came to a little lane behind the church, leading down to the cottage of Laban Tall, who had lately been installed as clerk of the parish, and was yet in mortal terror at church on Sundays when he heard his lone voice among certain hard words of the Psalms, whither no man ventured to follow him.†
Chpt 55-57
- Bathsheba has a great wish that all the parish shall not be in church, looking at her—she's shy-like and nervous about it, in fact—so I be doing this to humour her."†
Chpt 55-57
- "Labe Tall's old woman will horn it all over parish in half-an-hour."†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county