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Example sentences for "parsonage"

Lexicographically close words:
parsing; parsley; parsnip; parsnips; parson; parsonages; parsonic; parst; part; parta
  1. Provost Sandin headed the procession from Brunnholtz's parsonage to the new church.

  2. Scarcely a visitor came to the parsonage who had not some tale of woe to relate.

  3. Munster was to have a President and Council resident at Dungarvan, the parsonage of which, by a singular provision, was to be attached to the Presidency.

  4. The parsonage of Dungarvan was assigned for the maintenance of the Lord President.

  5. But you cannot remain here, my dear, for the parsonage will be handed over to another.

  6. Fresh from London, and not knowing a turnip from a carrot, I was compelled to farm three hundred acres, and without capital to build a Parsonage House.

  7. The parsonage is entirely unchanged: there is Sydney's study, a low-ceilinged room supported partly by pillars, level with the garden and opening into it.

  8. O little thought they in the old thatched cot, Hard by the Parsonage gate; Their master they never again should see, Nor ope to him soon nor late!

  9. Black dark was that night and stormy withal, It rained as 'twould rain a sea; And round and within the old Parsonage house The wind moaned piteously.

  10. Ripley hold forth; and when he had returned to his parsonage they paraded their oxen and sleds back again, past his gate, with much more shouting than at first.

  11. Ripley, coming to his parsonage door, and commanding silence, began to berate Captain B.

  12. So saying, he sent the boy into the parsonage to receive his pay, taking care to secure about a quarter of the peck of beans for his own colt.

  13. The good curate of the parish, who lives in that pretty parsonage in the valley, is very willing, but not very able to assist us on these trying occasions, for he has little enough for himself, and a large family into the bargain.

  14. For encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and for repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses.

  15. The distance was said to be only seven miles; and Laura, forgetting the latitude allowed to Scotish measurement, thought she might easily reach the parsonage before night-fall.

  16. Fearing that the shaft of slander should glance aside from herself to the friends who still clung to her, she steadily resisted Mrs Douglas's warm invitations to make the parsonage her home.

  17. He humours the good father by drawing a plan for a new parsonage and painting his coach, he charms the daughters by his various accomplishments, and the neighbours who came about the parsonage are carried away by his frolicsome humour.

  18. Charles had informed Louis that his father was a clergyman, and that his home was the parsonage house; and enlarged very much on the pleasure of being taught by his father.

  19. The church building and parsonage are on Third street, near Olive, and are valued at $4,500.

  20. To this a parsonage was added at a cost of $2,150.

  21. The present edifice on Third street near Myrtle, with the parsonage adjoining, cost about $4,200.

  22. The church and parsonage are built of stone.

  23. Clark was mainly instrumental in securing the erection of this Parsonage House.

  24. Clark and Thomas Danks) called a Vestry Meeting of the inhabitants, for the purpose of adopting the most efficient means for erecting a Parsonage House for St. Edmund's parish.

  25. The new Parsonage House of St. Edmund's Parish was occupied at this time by the respected incumbent, the Rev.

  26. As I walked along, looking for new adventures, I was surprised by the sight of a church, with a parsonage house near to it, the scene having an appearance entirely English.

  27. And then by placing Framley Parsonage near Barchester, I was able to fall back upon my old friends Mrs. Proudie and the archdeacon.

  28. The first drawing he did for Framley Parsonage did not appear till after the dinner of which I have spoken, and I do not think that I knew at the time that he was engaged on my novel.

  29. Had I left either Framley Parsonage or Castle Richmond half-finished fifteen years ago, I think I could complete the tales now with very little trouble.

  30. Barchester Towers would hardly be so well known as it is had there been no Framley Parsonage and no Last Chronicle of Barset.

  31. Of Framley Parsonage I need only further say, that as I wrote it I became more closely than ever acquainted with the new shire which I had added to the English counties.

  32. Obstacles which had originally seemed to him insurmountable, had now vanished, and in the near future he saw the baron’s innocence proclaimed by an impartial tribunal, while he himself was re-installed in the parsonage of Sairmeuse.

  33. Thanks to Martial de Sairmeuse they were now installed, the former at the parsonage and the latter at Escorval, as in days gone by.

  34. He only knew of the scene at the parsonage and believed that there would be no further connection between Lacheneur and the duke’s family.

  35. It was very kind of you, Eli, to come over to the parsonage to-day.

  36. Thus it came to pass that he was at the parsonage for a time that winter doing carpentering, and the two girls were often together there.

  37. But the young lady from the parsonage had already gone, and Arne alone sat watching Eli in the water.

  38. Eli now thought she ought to turn back, for they had gone far beyond the parsonage lands.

  39. It was at such a time that old Margit Kampen came walking up to the parsonage and asked to speak with "father.

  40. From the parsonage there glimmered a light, opening out and closing in, assuming many shapes and colors, as light is apt to do when one gazes at it too long.

  41. I should not be surprised if they were going to the parsonage wood.

  42. This was no usual mud hut, but a house, and a parsonage withal.

  43. They say he lived in the parsonage and paid the preacher for his English lessons by giving him a new understanding of the Greek New Testament.

  44. I likes you," says the sturdy urchin, sidling closer to the parsonage gate, over which Adèle leans.

  45. The parsonage was the only house of importance in the village.

  46. For many years previously to and at the period when the events about to be recorded took place, a very excellent clergyman, of high scholastic attainments, resided in the parsonage house.

  47. The road was thus divided into two branches: these, after skirting the walls on the east and west, united again at the south end, leaving the parsonage grounds isolated from other property.

  48. Within an hour after, it was half a mile on the road towards Bristol, in the fly-wagon, which Godfrey had previously ordered to call at the parsonage for his heavy baggage, a short time before his own intended departure.

  49. Into the ken of these three old men, seated in a row upon the parsonage porch, there came up the street a pair whose gait and general air of flurriment and haste instantly caught and held their attention.

  50. Over the low hedge that separated the parsonage yard from the yard adjoining on the left a man was looking at him--a man somewhere near his own age, he judged, in an instantaneous appraisal.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parsonage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.