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  • To the left of the door was a small board with the words Parish Priest and Assistant Priest on it.†   (source)
  • I traveled back and forth between the trial courts in Orleans Parish quite a bit on the Carter and Caston cases.†   (source)
  • Designed in the style of the great cathedrals of Amiens, Chartres, and Canterbury, Westminster Abbey is considered neither cathedral nor parish church.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure's great-uncle, locked with several hundred others inside the gates of Fort National, a quarter mile offshore, squints up and thinks, Locusts, and an Old Testament proverb comes back to him from some cobwebbed hour of parish school: The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.†   (source)
  • Past Harrison Westwood, Baker of this Parish, and his wives, Marion and Joan?†   (source)
  • Then Soames reappeared and plodded about like a parish beadle, backing down the steam radiator valves.†   (source)
  • She was just in time; Harold's mother entered the vestibule as Dan and I were leaving the parish house.†   (source)
  • But Yule May, she probably the most educated maid we got in our parish.†   (source)
  • She had made a halfhearted start on a family tree, but on the paternal side, at least until her great-grandfather opened his humble hardware shop, the ancestors were irretrievably sunk in a bog of farm laboring, with suspicious and confusing changes of surnames among the men, and common-law marriages unrecorded in the parish registers.†   (source)
  • The student filed a lawsuit against him, and his termination was recommended by the Jefferson Parish School District superintendent.†   (source)
  • I will need a letter from the parish priest and a physical examination by my family doctor.†   (source)
  • Mama Elena swallowed the whole thing; she was so sad it made her sick—but what nearly killed her was when she got the story from Father Ignacio, the parish priest—and who knew how he found out about it—that the next week Gertrudis was working in a brothel on the border.†   (source)
  • By June he would be ready to accept a call to one of the small parishes springing up to the south and west of Wethersfield.†   (source)
  • He wasn't that cute and he wasn't that interesting beyond the whole New Kid aura, and he definitely wasn't Ben Parish.†   (source)
  • She and her husband, Donald, were schoolteachers in a tiny village called Harewood, in the central Jamaican parish of Saint Catherine's.†   (source)
  • In dozens of tiny local parishes throughout the archdiocese, priests preach and practice what Matthew said.†   (source)
  • I leave it to Pater Leoden to distribute the remainder of my worldly goods among the parish, as, being an immoral soul, I will have no further need of them.†   (source)
  • We were walking to our parish church for the Mass of the Rooster, Mama, Papa, my sisters.†   (source)
  • Within the story, the paralysis shows up in several ways, not least of them a sort of madness that set in at the time the priest was relieved of his parish over some incident involving an acolyte.†   (source)
  • It was only a parish church but despite her feeble nature she had her pride, and being a clergyman's daughter she knew what was decent in a church.†   (source)
  • The minister he was assisting, he wrote, had turned the parish calling over to him: it was a wealthy congregation and large contributors expected frequent and unhurried visits from the clergy.†   (source)
  • Jack had always felt it was not just the sudden and irrational beating his father had administered at the dinner table but the fact that, in the hospital, their mother had corroborated their father's story while holding the hand of the parish priest.†   (source)
  • It was that hope that made me drag myself out of bed on Saturday morning and head for the Parish Hall of St. Andrew's Cathedral.†   (source)
  • the parish that something horrible had happened in my room which I would not reveal; and even the police questioned me, on the word of my own mother.†   (source)
  • Church was practically the only time we ever saw some of the farmers from farther out in the parish—places like Umpawaug.†   (source)
  • It was a bland, autumnal day thai gave no hint of the events that the child would record, which took place during the noon mass in the parish of San Sebastian, with her whole family in attendance.†   (source)
  • My church priest wrote to tell me, "Your good mother, your grandmother, your parish family, and I are proud of you."†   (source)
  • But he had not returned to the Parish Cafe since the dawn of the new century, and he had attempted to organize national tournaments under the sponsorship of the Social Club.†   (source)
  • And then, when Dan simply continued to look at him, he added, "Mr. Weathers is in my parish."†   (source)
  • In Polomnya, our parish, there isn't a man richer than the priest.†   (source)
  • Parish looked politely hopeful.†   (source)
  • For several years during medical school, Farmer had boarded at St. Mary of the Angels, a parish run by a priest known as Father Jack.†   (source)
  • Mother said she would see a dress on a parish girl many times before it was given to her.†   (source)
  • I looked up the St. Peter's Parish number in the phone book.†   (source)
  • Even though I was clearly the junior priest at St. Catherine's, we were one of only four parishes to serve all of Concord, New Hampshire.†   (source)
  • She remembered when Mr. Griffith from the Nonconformist chapel had been invited to speak in the parish church.†   (source)
  • His pastorate would be the longest in the annals of the parish, lasting forty-five years, and the friendship between Adams and Wibird, equally enduring.†   (source)
  • Those who must move through the poorer parishes cover their faces in herb-stuffed masks contrived like the beaks of great birds.†   (source)
  • In a parish just outside New Orleans.†   (source)
  • The town of Mamou (population three thousand) is in the heart of Cajun country, appropriately in Evangeline Parish, the Louisiana term for county.†   (source)
  • Both clerics were upset; this was a wealthy parish and, biblical compassion notwithstanding, wealth did have its privileges.†   (source)
  • The boys of his parish had no toys, except those they fashioned from raw materials they found in refuse or scrap heaps.†   (source)
  • "When I woke up, the parish priest leaned over me and whispered, 'The Devil has no stall for you,' so here I am," he told reporters after awakening.†   (source)
  • She wanted so much to tell you about the wonderful work we're doing in our parish school, and about the classes in metal craftsmanship, and about the beautiful wrought-iron doorknobs that the little slum children are making all by themselves.†   (source)
  • "Parish," I said, "not perish.†   (source)
  • The Church helped too, and charity from the local parish was more compassionately provided and less humbling to receive.†   (source)
  • He sat down, wondering how far the chair had gone from the parish hall before it came to the kiva.†   (source)
  • Phil was born and raised in Caddo Parish in Northwest Louisiana, near where the state converges with Arkansas and Texas.†   (source)
  • Brother Anselmo and I have been offered a new parish.†   (source)
  • I went back to teaching and worked for Ouachita Christian School, which had just opened in Ouachita Parish.†   (source)
  • By April, 1863, he had repudiated the Democratic party; by January, 1864, a few months before he was killed in the Red River campaign, he wrote his wife from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, that "since I [came] here I have learned and seen more of what the horrors of Slavery was than I ever knew before....I am [in] favor of doing away with the ...accursed institution....I am [now] a strong abolitionist."†   (source)
  • Father Guste, a parish priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, born and reared in the South, wrote the book to clarify the problems of racial justice for those "men of good will" who are sincerely alarmed by "the Problem."†   (source)
  • She had sensed the audaciousness, even the brazenness of the letter as she read it; one or the other, or perhaps simple stupidity, had to impel such a communication from an insignificant parish priest to the Commandant of Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • It had been designed, as my father had asked of the Fort Worth architect, to be congenial with the Episcopal parish church that stood next door to it and with the fine Governor's Mansion that faced it from across the street.†   (source)
  • They don't know the same people, living, as they do, in twenty different suburbs—all identical but having nothing in common, nothing human anyway: not Mrs. Wartz, ninety-two, who just fell down the cellar stairs, or Charley Parish who married that girl from Rome, Italy, and her not half-grown.†   (source)
  • Dr. Lucius Somerville, a gentle, white-haired man, a boyhood companion of Judge Bragg, had been in Jacksonville on the morning of The Day and therefore would not return to his parish.†   (source)
  • MARGARET Father ....(She indicates his cassock) NORFOLK Yes-d'you propose to meet the King disguised as a parish clerk?†   (source)
  • He asked another reader what this meant and was told that the expression "house with sculptures" was as familiar in Yuriatin as in Moscow the designation of a street by the name of its parish church, or the phrase "the Five Corners" in Petersburg.†   (source)
  • Hardly anybody in the parish knows the news yet.   (source)
  • The inhabitants of Raveloe were not severely regular in their church-going, and perhaps there was hardly a person in the parish who would not have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven,   (source)
  • "To our younger parish officers," he said, "you're something of an eccentric.†   (source)
  • From a Choctaw over in Feliciana Parish...†   (source)
  • They used a truck they were lent by the parish priests.†   (source)
  • Nothing as serious as that happened in our parish.†   (source)
  • The Parish Cafe was a good intermediate haven.†   (source)
  • And there's the St. Clement of Rome Parish Church on West Esplanade and Richland.†   (source)
  • Donald's wife, Daisy, was from the parish of Saint Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes.†   (source)
  • He had fought the Indians at Narragansett, and was deeply interested in parish affairs.†   (source)
  • No. She gets a letter from the parish priest.†   (source)
  • "Majella Godspeed, Spinster of this Parish, 1791-1870, Lost to All But Memory," Scarlett read aloud.†   (source)
  • "We could turn off here for Wilton Parish," he said.†   (source)
  • There were a dozen schools in the parish to visit, if that many.†   (source)
  • Now three quarters of the people in his parish agree with his work.†   (source)
  • The Orleans Parish courthouse is a massive structure with intimidating architecture.†   (source)
  • Dr. Joseph is our superintendent of schools here in St. Raphael Parish.†   (source)
  • Take the boy back, says the parish priest.†   (source)
  • And one year I was chairman of sidesmen; I've also been parish council chairman.†   (source)
  • A parish priest counts 6 percent children.†   (source)
  • Ben Parish couldn't be satisfied with being the most gorgeous guy in school.†   (source)
  • Your little speech about Christmas—at the Parish Council meeting?†   (source)
  • And I suspect that someone is not someone like Mr. Parish here.†   (source)
  • The parish priest writes the letter on the spot.†   (source)
  • I looked two rows down at the outline of Ben Parish's gorgeous head.†   (source)
  • The Vestry members had been wise to lock the parish house.†   (source)
  • Had someone locked the parish house out of fear that thieves would steal our real clothes?†   (source)
  • And they said you were nice but don't get my hopes up because you had this thing for Ben Parish—†   (source)
  • I whisper to Ben, "If you hurt him, Parish, I'm sticking this knife into your heart."†   (source)
  • Like Ben Parish, those guys—the pre-Flintstone, pre-Tank, pre-Dumbo, etc.—they're dead.†   (source)
  • I know how Ben Parish made me feel, which can't be put into words, or at least any words I know.†   (source)
  • You sat there—just sat there—while I lied about Ben Parish.†   (source)
  • He doesn't know Ben Parish from a hole in the ground.†   (source)
  • Or maybe I was mad at him for not being Ben Parish, which wasn't his fault.†   (source)
  • This, Sergeant Parish, is what an alien consciousness looks like.†   (source)
  • I was wrong about Ben Parish dying on the day he left the convalescent ward.†   (source)
  • After all, that's what you are now, Sergeant Parish.†   (source)
  • And I whisper to Ben Parish, "The one with Sammy—he's mine."†   (source)
  • Those first few moments between me and Ben Parish were very strange.†   (source)
  • Nobody was—except Ben Parish—and that was the whole problem.†   (source)
  • That was the last time I saw Ben Parish, sitting in that dark, stuffy gymnasium (Home of the Hawks!)†   (source)
  • The thing that gets me is whether I'd take that hand if it belonged to anyone other than Ben Parish.†   (source)
  • Both scenarios, an alien invasion of the Earth and a Ben Parish invasion of me.†   (source)
  • I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.†   (source)
  • "I haven't wanted to have sex with Ben Parish since the third grade," I whispered.†   (source)
  • If Ben Parish had dug the necklace out of the pit, would I have taken the gift?†   (source)
  • The new Ben Parish has the eyes of a wounded animal.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Parish, today we will graduate the top four squads of your battalion.†   (source)
  • Mami walked her to the bus stop for her first month at her new school over in the next parish.†   (source)
  • Phil took a job teaching at Ouachita Christian School, a new school in Ouachita Parish.†   (source)
  • St. Catherine's—my parish—received a request from the state prison.†   (source)
  • "You were anticipating Kennedy," Parish said, and got a little laugh.†   (source)
  • Surely Mompellion read my father's letter to the parish?†   (source)
  • Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever given me.†   (source)
  • Normally people tended to be very quiet in the parish church.†   (source)
  • She said, 'If it's your desire to check up on me, Andre, why not call the parish?†   (source)
  • Parish had some questions about the infield fly rule.†   (source)
  • It is the most beautiful parish in the district.†   (source)
  • Then he smiled, a very real, very Ben Parish-y smile.†   (source)
  • It was at the end of a dirt road in one of the most remote locations in the parish.†   (source)
  • There's no nice way to say this: Ben Parish smelled sick.†   (source)
  • Sims looked at Parish and said, "You know these two teams go way back.†   (source)
  • "They called it the Shot Heard Round the World," Sims told Parish.†   (source)
  • "Yes, really," Ben said with a patented Parish smile.†   (source)
  • (They fall upon him to drag the cassock over his head) A parish clerk, my Lord Chancellor†   (source)
  • He reported on the parish where we lived.†   (source)
  • "We will show you our big parish," and he knew he would never see it and that she knew it also.†   (source)
  • It is for the children of this parish and this State.†   (source)
  • Don't be sorry for yourself because you are going to so remote a parish.†   (source)
  • By the time he was twelve he had traveled all over this parish with Olivia Antoine.†   (source)
  • Early the next morning he got on the horse and started traveling over the parish.†   (source)
  • Colored all over this parish wanted him to be the One.†   (source)
  • Maybe he just told him that to scare him out the parish.†   (source)
  • Because we know what everybody else know in this parish, and that's he loved her.†   (source)
  • He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory.†   (source)
  • One Sunday, they entered Mount Horeb Church in St. James Parish and were immediately impressed by the young, dynamic pastor, Josiah Thomas.†   (source)
  • When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priest thought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away.†   (source)
  • Willem had long since left the parish ministry, where his habit of speaking the hard truth had made a succession of congregations unhappy, and had started his nursing home in Hilversum, thirty miles from Haarlem.†   (source)
  • Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife's brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage.†   (source)
  • You people seem not to comprehend that a minister is the Lord's man in the parish; a minister is not to be so lightly crossed and contradicted—†   (source)
  • I thought we'd curve south a little, hit into Connecticut at Wilton Parish and then go up through Upawaug to Redding, but that'll take us a half day out of our way, and with the snow coming, I'm not sure we want to risk it.†   (source)
  • My grandparents, Rev. Dr. James Thomas and Winell Thomas, met when he was an eighteen-year-old ministerial student in a small Jamaican parish and she and her parents were newly arrived parishioners from Cuba.†   (source)
  • Until that time he would stay at the Parish Cafe, playing one game or another, for he was an expert in all salon games and a good teacher as well.†   (source)
  • They were the incarcerated from the Jefferson Parish and Kenner jails—those who had been in jail before the storm.†   (source)
  • After his terrible encounter with his patron, he was taken in by Father Jose Dulce Maria in the parish house.†   (source)
  • Reader be Charitable), past the final resting place of Harrison Westwood, Baker of this Parish, and his wives, Marion and Joan, to the Potter's Field.†   (source)
  • Alba's name was entered in the Civil Registry and in the books of the parish with her father's French surname, but she never used it because her mother's was much easier to spell.†   (source)
  • It was the parish seat for St. Raphael.†   (source)
  • Her father's world was one of traders and stevedores, of war refugees in the public shelter of the Parish Cafe, of solitary men.†   (source)
  • And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life.†   (source)
  • A former Salem minister, George Burroughs, had had to borrow money to pay for his wife's funeral, and, since the parish was remiss in his salary, he was soon bankrupt.†   (source)
  • Cain also sent dozens of prisoners, many of them convicted of murder and rape, and tasked them with building cages for new prisoners and those forced out of Orleans Parish Prison.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, for his only meal every day, he depends upon the Parroquia de San Jose, or St. Joseph's Parish, and another church, the Parroquia del Santo Nino, the Parish of the Holy Child.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, the parish priest arranged for her to travel under the care of a group of Franciscan nuns who were going to Toledo, where they hoped to find dependable people to accompany her to Belgium.†   (source)
  • He rarely missed the ritual of lunch, although he almost never ate, for the aperitifs and Galician appetizers at the Parish Cafe satisfied him.†   (source)
  • Like almost all men of learning, he spent a good deal of his time pondering the invisible world, especially since he had himself encountered a witch in his parish not long before.†   (source)
  • At the time of the hurricane, Marlin Gusman, sheriff of Orleans parish, knew that there was a chance that the Orleans Parish Prison, where most offenders were kept while awaiting trial, would flood.†   (source)
  • To be their champion, he has gone against the initial wishes of many in his church and faced threats from the authorities, much like Priest Salamon Lemus Lemus in Veracruz, where one in two congregants quit the church in protest at letting migrants use the parish as a dormitory.†   (source)
  • They were so clear and unmistakable that those who went to look at them had no doubt about the existence of a fearsome creature similar to the one described by the parish priest and they got together to set traps in their courtyards.†   (source)
  • There were mildewed boxes of old parish records in one corner, and an open door that revealed a Victorian flush toilet and a basin, with only a cold tap, in the other.†   (source)
  • The thousands from Orleans Parish Prison, including those who were in jail for public intoxication, shoplifting, and other misdemeanors, had been left on the city's Broad Street overpass for three days.†   (source)
  • People around here were using St. Dunstan's in the village square as their parish church, so when they came to rebuild here, they made it a funeral chapel, keeping many of the original features—the stained glass windows in the far wall are said to be original ...†   (source)
  • PARRIS, studies her, then nods, half convinced: Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character.†   (source)
  • When he was a young man he would stop in the Parish Cafe before coming home, and this was where he perfected his chess game with his father-in-law's cronies and some Caribbean refugees.†   (source)
  • From that time on the parish priest began to show the signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.†   (source)
  • Ignorant of these changes, Florentino Ariza waited Sunday after Sunday on the terrace of the Parish Cafe, watching the people coming out of all three Masses.†   (source)
  • The revived hind part of one donkey ran to the door of the parish-house vestibule, which he found locked; the cows slipped in the snow.†   (source)
  • He moved a cardboard box filled with curled and damp parish papers and took out a carton of orange juice, an apple, a box of bread sticks, and a block of cheese, and he ate while pondering how and whether he would seek out Scarlett—he would Dreamwalk, perhaps, since that was how she had come to him ... He headed outside, was on his way to sit on the grey wooden bench, when he saw something and he hesitated.†   (source)
  • He remembered seeing him for many years in the rowdy chess wars at the Parish Cafe, hoarse with so much talking, and growing fatter and rougher as he sank into the quicksand of an unfortunate old age.†   (source)
  • All the Wiggins played in touch-football games, which they organized, every Sunday afternoon, on the parish-house lawn.†   (source)
  • He carried the sodden Harold Crosby to the parish-house vestibule, where he asked Barb Wiggin if he might have a word with her.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza still had not recovered when Lorenzo Daza held him by the arm and steered him across the Plaza of the Cathedral to the arcaded gallery of the Parish Cafe and invited him to sit on the terrace.†   (source)
  • For many years the baptismal certificate was our only valid means of identification, and Florentino Ariza's, recorded in the parish church of St. Tiburtius, said only that he was the natural son of an unwed natural daughter called Transito Ariza.†   (source)
  • I doubt that even Scrooge would have chosen a Parish Council meeting as the proper occasion for such an announcement.†   (source)
  • The first rehearsal was scheduled after the Annual Parish Meeting and the Vestry elections—almost at the beginning of our Christmas vacation.†   (source)
  • At eight o'clock he was sitting under the arches of the Parish Cafe, delirious with fatigue, trying to think of how to send his welcome to Fermina Daza, when he felt himself shaken by a seismic tremor that tore his heart.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't brood about such a silly business as the annual installation of parish officers; especially, I shouldn't allow such thoughts to distract me from the choral Eucharist and the sermon.†   (source)
  • In the Plaza of the Cathedral, where the statue of The Liberator was almost hidden among the African palm trees and the globes of the new streetlights, traffic was congested because Mass had ended, and not a seat was empty in the venerable and noisy Parish Cafe.†   (source)
  • But he was so determined to find out the unequivocal facts regarding Fermina Daza's health that he returned to the Parish Cafe to learn them from her father, just at the time of the historic tournament in which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour alone confronted forty-two opponents.†   (source)
  • I've been a parish officer so many times, for so many years, I shouldn't complain; perhaps my fellow parishioners thought they were being kind to me—to give me a year off.†   (source)
  • Dan grabbed me in the connecting passage to the parish house; he said he'd wait for me to get my clothes, and Owen's—we could go back to the dorm together, then, or to 80 Front Street.†   (source)
  • Because you're not really a Canadian, you know—and that troubles some of the older members of this parish, too; that troubles even those of us who do remember the circumstances that brought you here.†   (source)
  • And although Captain John Smith's beloved Pocahontas ended her unhappy life on British soil in the parish churchyard of the original Gravesend, the spiritually armless Watahantowet was never buried in our Gravesend.†   (source)
  • In the chilly vestibule of the parish house, Barb Wiggin proceeded to imprison Owen Meany in the swaddling clothes; but however tightly or loosely she bound him in the broad, cotton swathes, Owen complained.†   (source)
  • I don't remember Sunday school in the Congregational Church at all—although my mother claimed that this was always an occasion whereat I ate a lot, both in Sunday school and at various parish-house functions.†   (source)
  • And even after she went ahead and had me, unexplained, and named me after the founding father of Gravesend—even after she managed to make all that acceptable to her mother and sister, and to the town (not to mention to the Congregational Church, where she continued to sing in the choir and was often a participant in various parish-house functions) ...even after she'd carried off my illegitimate birth (to everyone's satisfaction, or so it appeared), she still took the train to Boston every Wednesday, she still spent every Wednesday night in the dreaded city in order to be bright and early for her voice or singing lesson.†   (source)
  • That Christ was lucky or unlucky, that he was saved or used, seemed rather serious points of difference— even in the hurried-up atmosphere of the parish-house vestibule, drafty from the opening and closing of the outside door and at the same time smelling of steam from the wet woolen clothes that dripped melting snow into the heat registers.†   (source)
  • And I am going to kill Sergeant Parish.†   (source)
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