Parchments

Paris, from Languedoc, Provence, or le Comtat, by my father, who dreaded, and not without reason, the inquisition which family title-deeds, and what was then styled the 'parchments' of the privileged class, brought down on the owners. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Umber put the notebook on his lap and scooped a pile of old parchments out of the chest. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

Handling monthly comics like 1,000-year-old parchments before sealing them away in Mylar bags may be common practice among a segment of the audience (particularly those of a certain age). ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Sunday, March 13th, an Alaska Airlines flight from Mexico was met at the Los Angeles airport by fire crews, foam trucks, FBI agents, Transportation Security Administration personnel and police because three Orthodox men were praying on board with tefillin -- black leather boxes containing parchments with verses from the bible. ❋ Rabbi Aaron Alexander (2011)

Hap looked up sheepishly, and was glad to see the king ignoring them to scratch the parchments with the pen. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

Fill your glass and let us look at the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday who dreamed their dreams on your own warm hills. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Furthermore, the Bible is infallible which means "without error", at least in its "original manuscripts," referring to the actual parchments on which the Biblical writers wrote their words. ❋ Steve McSwain (2011)

And that's one way poetry is being killed in this country, reduced to consensus-by-committee, stripped of individual vision, yielding vast parchments of conformity and mediocrity, worth only as means of boosting resumes and securing academic jobs. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

But contrary to what the Democrats had been led to believe by the parchments of the spending priests, very little grew out of Mount Obama's lava field of public dollars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Visiting a Christian Palestinian cobbler, Khalil Kando, Deeb asked to make him a sandal out of the leather parchments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Venue scrambled about like a confused child as his world began to burn around him; flares and sparks leaped to the more recent texts and to thousand-year-old parchments. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

Michael looked at the stacks of scrolls and books, the various parchments that had survived time. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

Michael had had his doubts about what Simon had said was below the temple, but as he looked at the empty shelves before him, as he read the titles of the books, scrolls, and parchments that were missing, a numbing fear consumed him. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

"I hear our great friend [Chowny] is going parchmental out there. They tell me the poor [bloke] has not laid eyes on a [schooner] for over 9 days!" ❋ Albert Dickfos (2019)

I am in [complete] and [total] [parchment] today! ❋ Tromboneguy (2010)

"[I need] to [get that] Parchment" ❋ Thahib (2009)

Person 1: Dude i have [Parchment class] Person 2: [Good thing] your name isn't [Finn] ❋ Not A Finn (2020)

The best way to [settle] a [difference] over a chair is a [good old fashioned] game of Quartz, Parchment, Shears. ❋ MordoAndRigs (2012)

“[Parchment High school] always [smells] like [cherry lemon]” ❋ Ellawest24 (2022)

"Yeah man that's some might [hella] [scrapbook parchment] you got there. [Where'd] ya get it?" ❋ Katchanmeow (2014)