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In urban areas, the pews only fill when there's a popular church school, and pushy mums are sniffing round the vicar's cassock (dads generally opt out of this game).
Britain's illiberal attitude to the church has driven me away Theo Hobson 2010
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The women have been close for years – Frances was governess to Liz and now plays a maternal role at odds with her violent artistic impulses, while spinster Camilla is struggling to come to terms with Liz's changed status as a vicar's wife with a young baby.
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What of the vicar's odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote?
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley: Book summary 2010
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As far as I know they did allow themselves some decent cuts of meat on Wednesdays, but the fish on Friday rule was religiously enforced through the 1920s and 30s by the vicar's wife.
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Fortunately, the vicar's wife, Penelope, is on hand to unravel the plot and make sure that, while faith is shaken to its foundations, all is well in England's green and pleasant land.
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The women have been close for years – Frances was governess to Liz and now plays a maternal role at odds with her violent artistic impulses, while spinster Camilla is struggling to come to terms with Liz's changed status as a vicar's wife with a young baby.
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The vicar's address, the presence of the mourners and the singing of the little church choir all blurred into a single refrain of grief.
'Hypothermia' 2010
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Then I read the script and thought, ah, not that kind of vicar's wife.
Olivia Colman in Rev 2010
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In fact, back in the 1940s, Raymond Chandler cracked that detective writers needed to take murder away from the upper classes; the weekend house party and the vicar's rose garden and give it back to the people who are really good at it.
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"It is that urge to say 'bum' at the vicar's tea party."
Tate Britain to mount exhibition of the British art of the rude Vanessa Thorpe arts 2010
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