Parsonical

'I canvass poor men accustomed to be paid for their votes, and who get nothing from me but what the baron would call a parsonical exhortation. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

We get to see exhibition catalogues, the cover and sample pages of Blast! including the Bless! pages, which are curiously parsonical in their blessings of our seafarers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His plump hands are linked across his shirt-front in parsonical tranquillity. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

A parsonical man in a Bible-black homburg has arrived by helicopter. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2003)

He gave Burden a parsonical look and said gravely, 'I would lay down my life for Mr Knighton.' ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1983)

He was an oldish man with a failing memory, and once or twice during his discourse it became apparent that he had confused Ramillies with some other warrior, but his parsonical intonation robbed most of his words of any meaning whatsoever and fortunately embarrassment was thus avoided. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1931)

We were staying with an English friend of mine -- a parson, though the least parsonical of men -- who had a pleasant little house in a Druze village of Mount Lebanon, and nothing to do but watch, and do his utmost to restrain, the antics of a very wealthy and eccentric lady missionary. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

He walked quickly, though he was tired and hot; tall, upright, and thin, in a grey parsonical suit, on whose black kerseymere vest a little gold cross dangled. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

She nodded and went off to her game, and informing Mr. Petherbridge that Lady Bruce was a platitudinous old tabby, flirted with him up to the nice limits of his parsonical dignity. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

So long has the narrow, parsonical, cynical contempt for the understanding of the lower classes prevailed -- through our fault -- a reversal to blind worship of the masses, of the immature and the unsuccessful, is not inexcusable. ❋ Walther Rathenau (1894)

"Now, Bill Gray, that's a very parsonical view of yours, isn't it?" said Holgate with a sneer. ❋ Unknown (1892)

It amused him to make love to her, and in spite of his parsonical cousin, he should continue to do so. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

'Oh, you would like any man in parsonical livery,' scoffed her brother. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Richard Ingrams errs in suggesting that David Cameron is a parsonical prime minister 11 ❋ Unknown (2010)

"[In the meadow] we can see a snowman. [Let's pretend] that he is [Parson Brown]." ❋ ScottX (2006)

Last night I was with [a girl] and she gave me a Parson. I've never had the [full] [tounge] before. ❋ Damdul (2010)

Be [careful] [I heard] there's Parsons [hiding out] here. ❋ Weston_the Great (2020)

Person: I don't understand why it's called the "[Black Lives] Matter" movement, don't [all lives matter]?" Parson: Of course all lives matter, but there were 300 years of American history during which [Black lives] did not matter. Black Americans could not get fair trials, lynching was not uncommon because killing Black people was not officially a crime in the mid-twentieth century. That's not [ancient history]. The movement called Black Lives Matter has opened up a dialog of the social injustices of the Black population that are still taking place today in America." ❋ Nosrap (2017)

that parson [smells] like the [quaker oats] [guy]! ❋ Laney4662 (2008)

'Hey [guss] big news' "No, shut up" 'I found a bug' "Nobody cares" '<[imageshack] link>' `lol, what a [parsons]´ ❋ Joeytje50 (2011)

I'm gonna [parson] his house [the fuck up]. or You just got [parsoned] ❋ Von Herring (2004)

Michael was rejected from [Harvard University] for [failing] to follow Parson's Law. He didn't fill it out properly his [first try]. ❋ Dorm Chief (2013)

The classic line from [Winter Wonderland]: "[In the meadow] we can [build a snowman] Then pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say 'Are you married ?', We'll say 'No man, For you can do the job when you're in town.'" Sure, it sounds like some kind of sexual reference, but its not. It's just a priest asking a couple if they are married. They reply that they are not and that they will wait for him to "do the job" of marrying them when he comes to their town. ❋ Bsmeb (2006)

[Longineu Parsons]...oh, [the kid] with [dreadlocks]? Oh yeah. ❋ Kiwi (2004)