All 19 Uses
parish
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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- Pap was in his mid-eighties, he had lived on that plantation all his life, and he could remember everything that had happened in the parish since the turn of the century.†
Chpt Intr.
- He told me the parish.†
Chpt 1
- The Democrats said that was strange coming from a Republican when a dirty scalawag had one of the biggest plantations in the parish.†
Chpt 2
- He reported on the parish where we lived.†
Chpt 2
- Early the next morning he got on the horse and started traveling over the parish.†
Chpt 2
- The children had ridden from all over the parish to attend classes.
Chpt 2 *parish = in Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government that is like a county
- It is for the children of this parish and this State.†
Chpt 2
- Mr. Albert Cluveau, when the Chariot of Hell come rattling for you, the people will hear you screaming all over this parish.†
Chpt 2
- I told him when the Chariot of Hell come for him we will hear him all over this parish.†
Chpt 2
- That time, Hurricane could beat any horse in the parish running, probably any horse in the state running.†
Chpt 3
- Here, the river been running for hundreds and hundreds of years, taking little earth, maybe few trees, maybe a cabin here and there when the water got too high, maybe a cow, horse, but never, never a whole parish-till the white man came here and tried to conquer it.†
Chpt 3
- People found out he was ordering toothbrushes for niggers they would tar and feather him and run him out of the parish on a rail.†
Chpt 3
- Then Guidry told Hardy he knowed all about him, and as a matter of fact he was thinking about talking to him one day himself He told Hardy he had no intention of'resting Marshall; on the other hand he was giving Hardy about one minute to get out his parish.†
Chpt 3
- Maybe he just told him that to scare him out the parish.†
Chpt 3
- Now Sappho and Claudee white as any white man in this parish, but they knowed good and God well they didn't have no business going there messing round with them Creoles.†
Chpt 3
- Because we know what everybody else know in this parish, and that's he loved her.†
Chpt 3
- Colored all over this parish wanted him to be the One.†
Chpt 4
- By the time he was twelve he had traveled all over this parish with Olivia Antoine.†
Chpt 4
- Travel over this parish.†
Chpt 4
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)