porochial

Whatever was his failing the official decline of Spicer was as pathetic as that of Mr. Bumble's surrender of all his "porochial" dignity to the charms of Mr.. Corney in _Oliver Twist_!

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

‘I hope,’ said Mr. Bumble, looking about him with great ruefulness, as Mr. Grimwig disappeared with the two old women: ‘I hope that this unfortunate little circumstance will not deprive me of my porochial office?’

Oliver Twist 2007

‘For a coffin first, and a porochial funeral afterwards,’ replied Mr. Bumble, fastening the strap of the leathern pocket – book: which, like himself, was very corpulent.

Oliver Twist 2007

‘We only heard of the family the night before last,’ said the beadle; ‘and we shouldn’t have known anything about them, then, only a woman who lodges in the same house made an application to the porochial committee for them to send the porochial surgeon to see a woman as was very bad.

Oliver Twist 2007

‘Mrs. Corney,’ said the beadle, smiling as men smile who are conscious of superior information, ‘out – of – door relief, properly managed, ma’am: is the porochial safeguard.

Oliver Twist 2007

‘I am a porochial beadle, gentlemen,’ rejoined Mr. Bumble proudly.

Oliver Twist 2007

‘A porochial life is not a bed of roses, Mrs. Mann.’

Oliver Twist 2007

‘Such porochial perfection!’ exclaimed Mr. Bumble, rapturously.

Oliver Twist 2007

She used to call me ‘Jacob Diggs,’ because of my porochial office, with a meaning of a joke on my parenshal name.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

We porochial pots is to pass all our time a-prospecting for Stink!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Various