Sample Sentences for
parish
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    Louisiana's largest parish by land area is Plaquemines, but the largest by population is East Baton Rouge.
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    He is a parish priest in one of Miami's poorest suburbs.
    parish = a local church community
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    The congregation supplies a parish house for the priest.
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    PARRIS: A wide opinion's running in the parish that the Devil may be among us, and I would satisfy them that they are wrong.  (source)
    parish = a local church community
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    By June he would be ready to accept a call to one of the small parishes springing up to the south and west of Wethersfield.†  (source)
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    On the patrol to the other villages, which somehow he must bind together into a parish, hour passed hour and neither he nor Jim spoke a word.  (source)
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    I ran, faster and faster, along the Old Road overhung with bare-branched trees, then on to Grand View and up Little Hobart Street, past the barking yard-dogs and the frost-covered coal piles, past the Noes' house and the Parishes' house, the Halls' house and the Renkos' house until, gasping for air, I came to a stop in front of our house.†  (source)
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    The children had ridden from all over the parish to attend classes.  (source)
    parish = in Louisiana:  a jurisdiction of government that is like a county
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    For it excluded by detailed enumeration from the sphere covered in the Proclamation all the counties in Virginia and parishes in Louisiana that were occupied by Union troops and into which the government actually had the power to bring freedom.†  (source)
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    He's working in a parish in Jarrow now.  (source)
    parish = a local church community
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    Watching his father's struggles in poor parishes had wedded a desire for money to an essentially unacquisitive nature.†  (source)
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    We are a big parish and the priest has a position to keep up.  (source)
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    The authorities of the parishes also (I haven't time to explain that phrase at present) gave willy-nilly what provisions they could to wandering people; and the Government, by means of its feeble national workshops, also fed a good number of half-starved folk.†  (source)
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