All 16 Uses
parish
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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- Sims looked at Parish and said, "You know these two teams go way back.†
- Parish looked politely hopeful.†
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- And he told Parish how people claimed to have been present at the game who were not and how some of them honestly insisted they were there because the event had sufficient seeping power to make them think they had to be at the Polo Grounds that day or else how did they feel the thing so strongly in their skin.†
- Parish looked at me.†
- "You were anticipating Kennedy," Parish said, and got a little laugh.†
- "They called it the Shot Heard Round the World," Sims told Parish.†
- Parish said, "What baseball?"†
- Parish finally got her wine.†
- Parish said.†
- Parish shut her eyes to see it better.†
- We were not talking to Jane Parish now.†
- We ordered coffee and watched the game and Parish sat in a thoughtful knot, arms and legs crossed, body twisted toward the window, yielding to the power of our differences.†
- Parish had some questions about the infield fly rule.†
- There were reports, a certain kind of underground rumor that can make its way across a country, parish to parish.†
- There were reports, a certain kind of underground rumor that can make its way across a country, parish to parish.†
- But there were parish priests everywhere about, leaky-eyed and halting, their old monotones falling whispery from the pulpit.†
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)