Parishioner

Examples

• The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There's a parishioner of mine--a fine fellow, but who would hardly have pulled through as he has done without his wife. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We know that he was fond of his parishioners the Garths, and had thought Mary worth mentioning to Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But the Vicar answered quietly-- That is because they are not my parishioners. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What would my parishioners do without me? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In name they were parishioners, but virtually they belonged to no parish at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Thus it will be seen that the parishioners of Crawley were equally happy in their Squire and in their Rector. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They lived long and happily together, beloved by their parishioners and by a numerous circle of friends. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One of my parishioners? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His position is not quite like that of the Apostles: he is only a parson among parishioners whose lives he has to try and make better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Margaret made a good listener to all her mother's little plans for adding some small comforts to the lot of the poorer parishioners. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But it does signify about the parishioners in Tipton being comfortable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Thaddeus