All 20 Uses
parish
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish...And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa'son Tringham?†
Chpt 1
- Under the church of that there parish lie my ancestors—hundreds of 'em—in coats of mail and jewels, in gr't lead coffins weighing tons and tons.†
Chpt 1
- Their first exhibition of themselves was in a processional march of two and two round the parish.†
Chpt 1
- "Tess is a fine figure o' fun, as I said to myself to-day when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest," observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.†
Chpt 1
- Rising early next day she walked to the hill-town called Shaston, and there took advantage of a van which twice in the week ran from Shaston eastward to Chaseborough, passing near Trantridge, the parish in which the vague and mysterious Mrs d'Urberville had her residence.†
Chpt 1
- You had better say nothing of that silly sort about parish.†
Chpt 1
- It reminded Tess of a Confirmation, in which Mrs d'Urberville was the bishop, the fowls the young people presented, and herself and the maid-servant the parson and curate of the parish bringing them up.†
Chpt 1
- The staple conversation on the farms around was on the uselessness of saving money; and smock-frocked arithmeticians, leaning on their ploughs or hoes, would enter into calculations of great nicety to prove that parish relief was a fuller provision for a man in his old age than any which could result from savings out of their wages during a whole lifetime.†
Chpt 1
- It was with a sudden flush that she read and realized what was to be the inscription he was now halfway through— THOU, SHALT, NOT, COMMIT— Her cheerful friend saw her looking, stopped his brush, and shouted— "If you want to ask for edification on these things of moment, there's a very earnest good man going to preach a charity-sermon to-day in the parish you are going to—Mr Clare of Emminster.†
Chpt 2
- Nobody could tell this but the parson of the parish, and he was a new-comer, and did not know her.†
Chpt 2
- To persons of limited spheres, miles are as geographical degrees, parishes as counties, counties as provinces and kingdoms.†
Chpt 2 *
- Not so very far to the left of her she could discern a dark patch in the scenery, which inquiry confirmed her in supposing to be trees marking the environs of Kingsbere—in the church of which parish the bones of her ancestors—her useless ancestors—lay entombed.†
Chpt 3
- The crooked lane leading from their own parish to Mellstock ran along the lowest levels in a portion of its length, and when the girls reached the most depressed spot they found that the result of the rain had been to flood the lane over-shoe to a distance of some fifty yards.†
Chpt 3
- O yes—'tis whispered; a young lady of his own rank, chosen by his family; a Doctor of Divinity's daughter near his father's parish of Emminster; he don't much care for her, they say.†
Chpt 3
- It was on the impulse of the moment that he had resolved to trot over to Emminster, and hence had not written to apprise his mother and father, aiming, however, to arrive about the breakfast hour, before they should have gone out to their parish duties.†
Chpt 4
- They returned down the hill to dinner, which was fixed at any time at which their father's and mother's morning work in the parish usually concluded.†
Chpt 4
- Having fairly well advanced his own affairs, Angel listened in a willing silence, as they jogged on together through the shady lanes, to his father's account of his parish difficulties, and the coldness of brother clergymen whom he loved, because of his strict interpretations of the New Testament by the light of what they deemed a pernicious Calvinistic doctrine.†
Chpt 4
- Tess's ideas on the views of the parish clergyman, whom she heard every week, seemed to be rather more vague than Clare's, who had never heard him at all.†
Chpt 4
- As they came out of church the ringers swung the bells off their rests, and a modest peal of three notes broke forth—that limited amount of expression having been deemed sufficient by the church builders for the joys of such a small parish.†
Chpt 4
- However, Sir John, as we call 'n now, kept up the wedding-day as well as he could, and stood treat to everybody in the parish; and John's wife sung songs at The Pure Drop till past eleven o'clock.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)