All 10 Uses of
parish
in
Jude the Obscure
- Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping—not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.†
Part 1
- As a preliminary he obtained some small blocks of freestone, metal not being available, and suspending his studies awhile, occupied his spare half-hours in copying the heads and capitals in his parish church.†
Part 1
- The people of the parish all said what a simple fool young Fawley was.†
Part 1 *
- Conjectures were put an end to by his arrival at the village school-house near Shaston on the bright morning of Sunday, between eleven and twelve o'clock, when the parish was as vacant as a desert, most of the inhabitants having gathered inside the church, whence their voices could occasionally be heard in unison.†
Part 3
- Some men would have cast scruples to the winds, and ventured it, oblivious both of Sue's declaration of her neutral feelings, and of the pair of autographs in the vestry chest of Arabella's parish church.†
Part 3
- The lesson of renunciation it was necessary and proper that he, as a parish priest, should learn.†
Part 3
- He walked out to this parish twice every Sunday, and sometimes in the week.†
Part 3
- They had now reached the house of the parish clerk.†
Part 5
- This is our parish church, isn't it?†
Part 5
- When I and my poor man were jined in it we kept up the junketing all the week, and drunk the parish dry, and had to borrow half a crown to begin housekeeping!†
Part 6
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county