Parishes

Examples

• For a fortnight past no cloth had been destroyed; no outrage on mill or mansion had been committed in the three parishes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were the bonfires of other parishes and hamlets that were engaged in the same sort of commemoration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Rome was to support him, and he was to restore the authority of Rome in the parishes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This last sum, indeed, does not exceed what frequently earned by common labourers in many country parishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is both lighter than the Spanish tax, and the greater part of towns and parishes are allowed to pay a composition in lieu of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And so I told her I had been a poor child myself, and it was according to parishes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You're not in a state to be let come upon strange parishes 'ceptin as a Casual. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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