All 5 Uses of
parish
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —Interesting only to the parish clerk.†
Chpt 9 *
- It has vanished long ago... —She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen, even though you prove that a bed in those days was as rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven parishes.†
Chpt 9
- The epicentre appears to have been that part of the metropolis which constitutes the Inn's Quay ward and parish of Saint Michan covering a surface of forty-one acres, two roods and one square pole or perch.†
Chpt 12
- From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.†
Chpt 14
- Slightly disturbed in his sentrybox by the brazier of live coke the watcher of the corporation stones who, though now broken down and fast breaking up, was none other in stern reality than the Gumley aforesaid, now practically on the parish rates, given the temporary job by Pat Tobin in all human probability from dictates of humanity knowing him before shifted about and shuffled in his box before composing his limbs again in to the arms of Morpheus, a truly amazing piece of hard lines in its most virulent form on a fellow most respectably connected and familiarised with decent hom†
Chpt 16
Definition:
a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county