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Dissenters try to be gentlemen; but George has no misgivings about himself on that score; so he gives his undivided energy to his efforts to be parsonic.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard

It would be wrong to say that lucre is at the bottom of every parsonic change; but it is at the foundation of the great majority—eh?

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Parson Endicott suffered from shortness of sight and a high parsonic manner.

From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I began about Adam and Eve, with an eye to future parsonic probings.

From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth

Langham, whether he liked it or no, had to face the parsonic breakfast and the parsonic day.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.