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a local church communityor in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
- Are we talking about a governmental or a religious parish?
parish = a local church community
or in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
or in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
- Everyone in our parish was impacted by the flood.
- She is a parish sheriff in Louisiana.
- Louisiana's largest parish by land area is Plaquemines, but the largest by population is East Baton Rouge.
- He is a parish priest in one of Miami's poorest suburbs.
- The congregation supplies a parish house for the priest.
- The assignment was to draw a map of Louisiana and write in the names of the parishes in their appropriate places.Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying
- The inhabitants of Raveloe were not severely regular in their church-going, and perhaps there was hardly a person in the parish who would not have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven,George Eliot -- Silas Marner
- The children had ridden from all over the parish to attend classes.Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- We are a big parish and the priest has a position to keep up.Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
- 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.Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- Hardly anybody in the parish knows the news yet.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- He's working in a parish in Jarrow now.David Almond -- Clay
- Did ever anybody hear the like i' this parish?George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- 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.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- He had fought the Indians at Narragansett, and was deeply interested in parish affairs.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- You people seem not to comprehend that a minister is the Lord's man in the parish; a minister is not to be so lightly crossed and contradicted— PUTNAM: Aye!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- A former Salem minister, George Burroughs, had had to borrow money to pay for his wife's funeral, and, since the parish was remiss in his salary, he was soon bankrupt.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Like almost all men of learning, he spent a good deal of his time pondering the invisible world, especially since he had himself encountered a witch in his parish not long before.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- PARRIS, studies her, then nods, half convinced: Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
parish = local church community
parish = a jurisdiction of government like a county (in Louisiana)
parish = a jurisdiction of government like a county (in Louisiana)
parish = a local church community
parish = a local church community
parishes = jurisdictions of government in Louisiana (like a counties in other states)
parish = a local church community
parish = in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government that is like a county
parish = a local church community
parish = a local church community
parish = a local church community
parish = a local church community
parish = a local church community
or in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
or in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
parish = a local church community
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