79 Verbs to Use for the Word parson

And is there not One who has said, "Come with me, and I will make you fishers of men?"' 'Would you have us all turn parsons?' 'Is no one to do God's work except the parson, sir?

"Mais, Posson Jone'!"in his old falsetto"de orderyou cannot read it, it is in Frenchcompel you to go hout, sir!" "Is that so?" cried the parson, bounding up with radiant face"is that so, Jools?"

"And you think that was growin' out of the holy-water?" asked the parson.

But I have served over fifty years in a respectable house, and I have helped to bring up the old parson, and the present one and his two sons; but we have never known anything of velvet pants, no, never, and we were, I should think, different people from these.

" I saw a parson at his desk, Silk-gowned and linen-ruffled; The organ ceasedhe rose to preach, And smirked, and mouthed, and snuffled; He talked of gold, and called it dross, And prophesied confusion To all who loved ittold them that Their trust was all delusion.

I've often fancied, when I've watched those priestsand very good fellows, too, some of them arethat there must be a devil after all abroad in the world, as you say; for no human insanity could ever have hit upon so complete and 'cute a device for making parsons do the more harm, the more good they try to do.

'I am a rough man,' Ratsey resumed, 'but tender-like withal, and when I saw her weep, I ran off to the church to tell the parson how it was, and beg him to come out and try if we two could lift the coffin.

One man signs, because he hates the papists; another, because he has vowed destruction to the tumpikes; one, because it will vex the parson; another, because he owes his landlord nothing; one, because he is rich; another, because he is poor; one, to show that he is not afraid; and another, to show that he can write.

I'll fetch the parson.

To-day she gave a dinner party, and invited the parson and the innkeeper.

i. Cumberland (Memoirs, ii. 226) says that Mr. Dilly, speaking of 'the profusion of quotations which some writers affectedly make use of, observed that he knew a Presbyterian parson who, for eighteenpence, would furnish any pamphleteer with as many scraps of Greek and Latin as would pass him off for an accomplished classic.'

William G. Brownlow; fighting parson of the southern highlands.

A neighboring farmer kindly offered the parson to plough one of his fields.

Device, Amble before and find the parson out; We will bee friends and thou shalt be her father.

Allus did 'ate parsons!

'All red!' ejaculated the parson almost involuntarily.

The new squire was seen in his pew every Sunday morning, and often entertained the parson at the house.

In fact, I b'lieve that everybody in Claybury excepting the parson and Bob Pretty was trying to get that ten pounds.

For a time after the church was erected, he had nothing to depend upon but the pew rents, which realised about 70 pounds a year: but fortune favours parsons: the Ecclesiastical Commissioners subsequently increased his stipend, then 1,000 pounds was left by J. Bairstow, Esq., and the income is now equal to about 300 pounds per annum.

"Ef you'd heard me flabbergast the parson!"

[Footnote 70: 'Parson:' Jeremy Collier.]

And in a moment there stood before him plain Mayhall Wellsholding out the order Bill had given the parson that day.

"Hang a parson, anyway," growled Riggs, grinning at me.

He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice.

Viewed externally, you would say that scarcely a good handful of people could be accommodated in it; it seems so narrow, so entirely made up of and filled in with stone, that one infers at first sight it will hardly hold the parson and the sacrament-loving "old woman" who invariably exists as a permanent arrangement at all our places of worship; but this is a fallacy, for the building will accommodate about 1,100 people.

79 Verbs to Use for the Word  parson