All 7 Uses
parish
in
The Graveyard Book
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- There were mildewed boxes of old parish records in one corner, and an open door that revealed a Victorian flush toilet and a basin, with only a cold tap, in the other.†
p. 27.2
- Past Harrison Westwood, Baker of this Parish, and his wives, Marion and Joan?†
p. 100.4 *
- And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life.†
p. 106.5
- Reader be Charitable), past the final resting place of Harrison Westwood, Baker of this Parish, and his wives, Marion and Joan, to the Potter's Field.†
p. 140.9
- "Majella Godspeed, Spinster of this Parish, 1791-1870, Lost to All But Memory," Scarlett read aloud.†
p. 221.7
- People around here were using St. Dunstan's in the village square as their parish church, so when they came to rebuild here, they made it a funeral chapel, keeping many of the original features—the stained glass windows in the far wall are said to be original ...†
p. 222.8
- He moved a cardboard box filled with curled and damp parish papers and took out a carton of orange juice, an apple, a box of bread sticks, and a block of cheese, and he ate while pondering how and whether he would seek out Scarlett—he would Dreamwalk, perhaps, since that was how she had come to him ... He headed outside, was on his way to sit on the grey wooden bench, when he saw something and he hesitated.†
p. 235.1
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)