1 His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
2 So next day Clifford suggested Mrs Bolton, Tevershall parish nurse.
3 Mrs Bolton was just retiring from her parish duties to take up private nursing jobs.
4 She had another fortnight's parish nursing to do, by rights, but they might get a substitute, you know.
5 A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.
6 They have been buried, I suppose, in the parish church.
7 Henry Crawford was gone, gone from the house, and within two hours afterwards from the parish; and so ended all the hopes his selfish vanity had raised in Maria and Julia Bertram.
8 But a parish has wants and claims which can be known only by a clergyman constantly resident, and which no proxy can be capable of satisfying to the same extent.
9 Sir Thomas," said Edmund, "undoubtedly understands the duty of a parish priest.
10 The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
11 This here boy, sir, wot the parish wants to 'prentis,' said Mr. Gamfield.
12 So saying, he smiled, approvingly: to calm the rising wrath of the indignant parish officer.
13 I see no saving in parish children, not I; for they always cost more to keep, than they're worth.
14 The scanty parish dress, the livery of his misery, hung loosely on his feeble body; and his young limbs had wasted away, like those of an old man.
15 There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill.