All 4 Uses of
parish
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach-yard of the Saracen's Head Inn; its portal guarded by two Saracens' heads and shoulders, which it was once the pride and glory of the choice spirits of this metropolis to pull down at night, but which have for some time remained in undisturbed tranquillity; possibly because this species of humour is now confined to St James's parish, where door knockers are preferred as being more portable, and bell-wires esteemed as convenient toothpicks.†
Chpt 4
- These were not mere words of ceremony; for, Mr Cutler, having kept house in Mr Lillyvick's parish, had heard of him very often indeed.†
Chpt 14 *
- The certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first letter had a genuine appearance of having been written and preserved for some years, the handwriting of the second tallied with it exactly, (making proper allowance for its having been written by a person in extremity,) and there were several other corroboratory scraps of entries and memoranda which it was equally difficult to question.†
Chpt 45
- I did more work, because I was poor, and took more hard words from you because I despised you and them, than any man you could have got from the parish workhouse.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county