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Meanings of parsonage in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rectory"
Examples for "rectory"
1
The presbytery, or the rectory, was the chief guest-house in the land.
2
The hunting-party rode out of the rectory gates in twos and threes.
3
The only calm and undisturbed person in the rectory household was Muller.
4
One evening the rectory party were assembled together in the cheerful drawing-room.
5
A messenger had run with it in great haste from the rectory.
1
You must have missed him; he started for the vicarage half-an-hour ago.
2
When we meet it is at the vicarage or in the street.'
3
The wheels drew nearer, then the vicarage pony-carriage came round the bend.
4
By the time we reached the vicarage my heart was very quiet.
5
They had not far to go from the vicarage to the churchyard.
Usage of parsonage in English
1
The town-hall stood opposite the parsonage, in the square by the church.
2
They were now before the parsonage in the hamlet of Scrub Oaks.
3
Then in the parsonage we met all the ladies of our church.
4
That morning there was great commotion in the yard at the parsonage.
5
At the parsonage the young minister still sat scowling in his study.
6
The parsonage on the banks of the Connecticut was a delightful home.
7
The brook at Somersby flowed past the bottom of the parsonage grounds.
8
It had been in the parsonage drawing-room, and Fanny had been there.
9
And in the meanwhile, at the parsonage, Fairy was patiently getting breakfast.
10
We're going over to the strawberry social at the M. E. parsonage.
11
The manse, as the parsonage-house is called in Scotland, was close by.
12
In the parsonage, too, the evening was spent with unusually animated conversation.
13
The parsonage is often an almost ideal presentment of peace and repose.
14
The road now wound behind the parsonage and up a steep ascent.
15
Yet he was not without comforts and companions in his country parsonage.
16
Colonel Goldapp's quarters are at present in the parsonage near the village.
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Parsonage through the time
Parsonage across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common