Word: parsonical
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...French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them for ransom. A woman two days out of childbed survived while others fell or were tomahawked by the way. Parson Chapman nearly went out of his head when the Indians let his wife drown under the river...
...Canada those who were left were divided up?some to Montreal and Quebec, some to the Indian villages. When Mrs. Lygon had to leave her husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield...
...Your deluded parson is evidently the least common denominator in a feeble-minded colony, so it is incumbent upon you, because of your profligate journalism, to first sympathetically bridle, then lead that braying charge out of the wilderness, and tell him that only an illiterate native of Montana would know as little as he does of the progress and culture of the commonwealth of Mississippi...
...Parson (F. W. Wool worth...
When Chris and her parson husband, Robert, went to the little town of Segget they found the inhabitants a dour, gnarled lot. Chris was a woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized...