Old Parson Buzzell gave out his text from the high pulpit: Mark XIII, 37, 'AND WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH!
Rumors of his presence here or there came from time to time, but thoughParson Lane and Dr.
The Wilsons came up the aisle a moment later than was their usual habit, just after the parson had ascended the pulpit.
Patty watched the parson turn leaf after leaf until the final one was reached.
Do you remember the winter, long after father went away, that Parson Lane sent me to Fairfield Academy to get enough Greek and Latin to make me a schoolmaster?
At first came Parson Rook, With his spectacles and band; And one of Mother Hubbard's books He held within his hand.
The first that Mr. Ebeni heard of the approaching mischief was when ten or twenty men came rushing to him one after another to arouse him and tell him what the parson was saying.
Teleki whispered back; "the parson is speaking the truth, but it doesn't matter.
Ladislaus Vajda to Teleki, whom the parson seemed to have seen, for he turned straight towards him as he spoke.
An equivocal rhyme of the bishopric, which may either mean that the parson of the sixteenth century had no son, or that he had no equal in learning, &c.
Said another, whose few wits had been lost in beer, he’d ‘as soon put the parson in the horse-pond as look at him.
It is said he was brought up to be a parson of some kind or other, but he gave it up.
Now, when even curates devote themselves to lawn tennis, a freer life is tolerated, and we do not find fault with even an ordained parson who can run, or play cricket, or display animal as well as intellectual or moral vigour.
There was the old parson himself; did not everyone laugh at him because he was poor and shabby, and had not his long life of poverty reduced him to such a state that he could not say ‘Bo!
It was a grievous sight, and the young parson grieved to think how little he could do to remove the evil which existed all round.
I explained that the late parson was old and infirm, but that the new parson would do better; and then Hodge admitted that he had heard as how he had called on a neighbour who was ill, and had left two half-crowns.
Naturally the young parson turned round to look at the speaker; but, startled at her audacity, the beautiful girl had suddenly disappeared, and the next face that met him wore a very different expression.
And a better parson we don’t want,’ said the old farmer enthusiastically.
A working man candidate even who will get into a pulpit is also sure of success, even if he intimates that the parson does not know his business, or that the church and congregation are groping in the dark.
Oh no,’ I replied; ‘that is the offertory, and the parsongives the money to the poor.
Why,’ said he, ‘the parson makes a poor-rate in the church.
Men were wondering why it was that the Postmaster and the Little Milliner, who went to Magari ten days before, to get married by the parson there, had not returned.
For both Rembrandt and the parson had, and showed, a respect for her, which might appear startling were it seen in Berkeley Square or the Strand.
This day the parson read a proclamation at church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.
Then home; where I found the parson and his wife gone.
I know naught of him, or his doings, save that last June I received the price I paid for his bond, through Parson McClave, who perhaps can give ye word of him.
The parsonis down by the river, helping transfer the powder, and I'm going to leave you with him to take back to Greenwood.
Once the parson has drawn the deeds, I'll see Washington himself; and we'll save ye yet.
Thus a twelve-month passed without Philemon Hennion, John Evatt, Charles Fownes, Parson McClave, or any other lover so much as once darkening the doors of Greenwood.
Here in this town, the life was sapped out of the 'Invincibles' by their own officers; but the parson went among the men this morning, and the best of them formed a new company under him and enlisted for the year.
The parson came to me to counsel what was best, and 'tween us we concocted a plan to outwit the time-servers.
The second signer was the publican; the third was Esquire Hennion; and after him came all the townsmen, save those who had thrown in their lot along with the parson that morning by marching off with Washington.
Ah, Jan, many a man would enter the ministry, if he might be ordained parson of ye.
Who knows but Mrs. Meredith and the parson may be right in their holding to foreordination?
The parson looked round before beginning, and as she was the only one near he beckoned to her, and she went up to the rails.
When we got there the parson wouldn't marry us because of some trifling irregularity in the license.
I saw then that the parson and clerk were already there.
The parson referred to was Mr. Colman of Hingham, now returning from a visit to Baltimore.
While the parson was preaching, he first kept looking at one card and then at another.
You must never think of, or even look at any other woman but me, for am sure the parson must have made a mistake when he said, woman, obey your husbands.
When the parson had ended his sermon, and all was over, the soldiers repaired to the church-yard, and the commanding officer gave the word of command to fall in, which they did.
One of the very first objects of my boyish reverence and veneration was, as might be expected with a child religiously educated, the parson of the parish in the market town where I was brought up.
V----, naming one of the French prisoners with whom the parson had been especially intimate in the time of the war.
Sir James was subject to certainParson Adams-like habits of forgetfulness of common things and lesser proprieties; and this brought down upon him no slight share of taunt and ridicule.
Was it the squire, orparson of the parish, Or the attorney?
The busy city clergyman may nowadays have no time for such elegant diversions, but at all periods the lettered country parson has been inclined to occupy some of his spare moments in wooing the Muse of Song.
When we come down to more recent times, we find even greater variety than this in the writings of the parson poets.
Arthur says if a whisper gets out these things fly from parsontoparson like wildfire.
That the parson and his wife should talk about it between themselves was a matter of course; but very few words were spoken on the matter either by or to Lucy.
But it did come to pass that Mr. Sowerby told the parson that the horse should be his for £130.
But, my dear fellow, I've made such a mistake; I haven't got a bachelor parsonfor Miss Proudie.
This was certainly very good-natured on the part of Mr. Sowerby, and showed that he had a feeling within his bosom that he owed something to his friend the parson for the injury he had done him.
That she had condoned; and now he was turning out a hunting parson on her hands.
At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.
It was half-way across to Chaldicotes--in the western division; and she had heard of that run in which two horses had been killed, and in which Parson Robarts had won such immortal glory among West Barsetshire sportsmen.
And away they both went together, parson and member of Parliament.
It includes two populous villages, abounding in brickmakers, a race of men very troublesome to a zealousparson who won't let men go rollicking to the devil without interference.
What could a young flattered fool of a parson do, but say that he would go?
Sowerby had come with him, and was standing a little in the background, from which position he winked occasionally at the parson over the minister's shoulder.
The whole work of her life would be upset, all the outlets of her energy would be impeded if not absolutely closed, if a state of things were to come to pass in which she and the parson of her parish should not be on good terms.
I have referred to a certain resemblance existing between the unattached parson and the unattached editor.
Once, however, the weather was so bad that the parson did not think it worth his while going near the church for five Sundays.
Like theparson who is so very "low" that he steadily refuses to cross his t's lest he should be accused of adopting Romish emblems, he declined to turn his head without moving his whole body.
That parson took a humbler view of his position and privileges in the world than did a Presbyterian minister in Ulster whose pompous way of moving and of speaking drew toward him many admirers and imitators.
It is told of the same "casual" that an attempt was made to get the better of him by a parsimonious set of churchwardens upon the occasion of his being engaged to do duty for the regular parson of the parish.
Although I had never exactly been the leader of the coughers in church, yet on the other hand I had never been a leader of the scoffers outside it; and somehow the parson had come to miss me.
Two planters, who wereparson Nicholas and Mr. Rolls, asked him if he was sound wind and limb?
Parson White asked who was minister there, he replied, that one Atkins was curate, and that there was no other there at that time.
Upon which his lordship told him, that parson C--- had advised him to be careful, as he had lost his spaniel but the day before.
A few days after, the parsongoing over to see the ladies, they asked him if a poor seaman had been at his house.
Bell, Parson Beer, and the Collector, who all treated him very kindly.
The only biography of Weems is Parson Weems, by Lawrence C.
Tom, but recollect that Parson said on Sunday last, that poor folks, since the 'provements of cookery eat about twice as much as nature requires.
Illustration] Doctor, thy accents, soft and bland, Are ever sure to please; What female bosom can withstand A Parson on his knees?
I says, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it.
He was born in Norfolk on Christmas Day 1759, of low station, but was well educated by the parson of the parish, and sent to Eton by a neighbouring squire.
Mr. Balwhidder, a Presbyterian Parson Adams of a less robust type, whose description of himself and parishioners is always good, and at times charming.
Bet Donnerthwaite had had a sup too much one night at the ale-house, was it for a gentleman born like the parson to take note of that?
The future master of the Fells Farm was a fixture at Brocklebank: but the future parson of some parish might be carried a hundred miles away from us.
Instantly the whole company, saving only the parson and the old woman, volunteered.
There was a lot of objection when Parson started it years ago.
You'd come to the place where you met the parson and his lady in the churchyard," I said.
I've often told our parson as it were the worst day's work he ever did when he had our church restored.
But one day something 'appened as give Parson a pretty start.
We was twenty minutes before time, for I didn't want people to see us; but, just as we were crossing the churchyard, who should we meet but the parson and his lady?
