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• If, in verifying the quotation, the parson should be arrested by the neighbouring line, “ His Poll was kind and true ,” what then? —  The Adventure of Living
• And his poverty and bondage continued so long that, in the times of Swift, the parson was a byword and a jest among the various servants in the households of the great. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• At Durham a parson was able to protest without danger that the Pope alone had power in spiritual matters. —  History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
• Even the stiff dignity of Dr. Mowry he was inclined to count only an accidental incrustation of manner, beneath which the heart of the parson was all aglow with the tenderest benevolence. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
• I won't do any more than work from sunrise to sunset on week-days, as I promised Some time afterwards the parson was asked to attend a grand christening in town. —  The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country

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