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How many cherry trees owe their longevity to the parson's prevarication God only knows, but each subsequent biographer has aimed to reveal the man behind the myth.
The Life of the Lives Carl Rollyson 2010
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How many cherry trees owe their longevity to the parson's prevarication God only knows, but each subsequent biographer has aimed to reveal the man behind the myth.
O Captain, Our Captain Andrew Roberts 2010
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Blaine never disavowed the partisan parson's remarks.
Ken Blackwell: President Obama's Comity Central Ken Blackwell 2011
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The cat must have gotten in through the bars on the porch window, cracked open for ventilation; knocked the damn vase off the parson's table in front of the window.
Johnny Dangerously Larry Strattner 2011
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"Oh, all right, then," said Peter, who could not resist seeing the look on the parson's face.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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The primary aim of "Jane's Fame," however, is to tackle the great literary mystery of how this parson's daughter who was happy to limit her scope to three or four families in a country village came to conquer the world.
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I spend enormous amounts of credit from the parental authority bank, lecturing my boys on the uses of cutlery while, at the same time, watching my own hands slip unbidden across the table towards the remains of the roast chicken, determined to rip off the parson's nose.
Who needs cutlery? Just take a hands-on approach to your food 2010
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"Oh, all right, then," said Peter, who could not resist seeing the look on the parson's face.
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And then my father's particularities, – and my mother's seeing things in such strong lights – and a parson's son, – and all that. '
Camilla 2008
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The one of a parson's wife in Northamptonshire, An. 1607, that coming to a physician, and told by him that she was troubled with the sciatica, as he conjectured (a disease she was free from), the same night after her return, upon his words, fell into a grievous fit of
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