I was born in the parsonage-house, which joins the church-yard.

" "Ah! Grace," and John was about to become what he had never been before- -sentimental- when he saw the carriage of Chatterton, containing the dowager and Catherine entering the parsonage gates.

We now come to the first evidence of any thing relating to the parsonage land being set apart from the common land.

A low paling ran along the interval between the church and the parsonage-garden.

And then, you know, it is so hard for a poor servant to resist her master, particularly when he is a priest, who holds all your confidence, and possesses all your secrets, and with whom you live in a certain kind of intimacy; and besides a priest is cautious, and one may be quite sure that nothing of what goes on inside the parsonage, will get out through the parsonage door.

An idyll in the shade of the parsonage limes and under the motionless eye of the weather-cock on the belfry.

Conversation with the neighbours who had come to the parsonage-meetings shaped itself into meetings of inquirers.

I could not stand up before my minister and offer to refurnish the parsonage parlor, with such a lie as that on my lips.

I consent, (I say,) on the following conditions, viz: That you undertake that no damage come upon the parsonage property, either wood land, or Meeting-house; that no attempt be made to occupy the Meeting-house; that there be no attempt on the Sabbath, or any other day, to interrupt the customary worship at the Meeting-house, and, that peace, order, and quietude be maintained during the time of the Camp-meeting.

This was no usual mud hut, but a house, and a parsonage withal.

In that secluded nook, out of all the rush and noise of London, we lived as we might have lived in an English village; it was an impasse, and one who entered from the narrow and squalid alleys which led to it was surprised to find the little square of the old and disused graveyard, with its huge hawthorn trees and its inclosure of the parsonage appendages, as peaceful and as far from the world as if it had been in distant Devon.

But as he drove his gig into the parsonage yard at Plum-cum-Pippins, he made up his mind that this, too, was among the things which a Christian minister should bear with patience.

'Lizebeth ran to and fro, hither and thither, and asked of the returning children of the neighborhood, where the parsonage children were.

One minute handed over to the other the sugar-bowl and bottle-case of joy: the guests heard and saw less and less, and the villagers began to see and hear more and more, and toward night they penetrated like a wedge into the open doornay, two youths ventured even in the middle of the parsonage-court to mount a plank over a beam and commence seesawing.

"The fine cattle from the parsonage farm emerged from the forest and marched to the Wood-nymph and the wild beasts.

And now various neighbors hurried in, proclaiming that the whole valley lay thickly covered with hail-stones, down to the very edge of the parsonage fields, but the latter had been quite spared.