All 9 Uses
parish
in
Year of Wonders
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- Surely Mompellion read my father's letter to the parish?†
Chpt 1
- The late events in this place, and his own grievous loss, have left him exhausted and quite unequal to shouldering the burdens of the parish at this time.†
Chpt 1
- And we all—the whole parish—benefited from her barrenness, as she mothered the children who weren't mothered enough in their own crowded crofts, took interest in promising youths who lacked preferment, counseled the troubled, and visited the sick, making herself indispensable in any number of ways to all kinds and classes of people.†
Chpt 2
- Those who must move through the poorer parishes cover their faces in herb-stuffed masks contrived like the beaks of great birds.†
Chpt 3 *
- Neither did the Law of the Land do anything about the killings: the justice of the peace from Bakewell refused to come near our village or accept from us any persons for arrest, saying that no gaol in the parish would consent to hold them until the net assizes.†
Chpt 6
- Mr. Mompellion was conferring with Thomas Stanley, the Puritan who had quit our parish more than three years since, on Saint Bartholomew's Day, in the Year of Our Lord 1662.†
Chpt 6
- Not long after his protest, a law passed saying that dissenting clergy should keep at least five miles from their old parishes, so that they might not stir up differences.†
Chpt 6
- The cavaliers routed the forces in his parish and plundered his own dwelling of all that was portable—brass, pewter, and cloth.†
Chpt 9
- There, I found the history of the villagers' ordeal, and their extraordinary decision, set out in a display in the parish church of Saint Lawrence.†
Chpt Aft.
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)