"Chasuble" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sunday morning he would worship in the little tin mission church, the last Sunday morning indeed that any of the children of Lima Street would worship there, Mark sat close beside his mother at the children's Mass. His father looking as he always looked, took off his chasuble, and in his alb walked up and down the aisle preaching his short sermon interspersed ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... civil to each other; too civil by half. I speak especially of Great Britain. Old theology has run off to ritualism, much lamenting, with no comfort except the discovery that the cloak Paul left at Troas was a chasuble. Philosophy, which always had a little sense sewed up in its garments—to pay for its funeral?—has expended a trifle in accommodating itself to the new system. But the two are poles of a ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... — N. canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic[obs3], scapulary[obs3], cope, mozetta[obs3], scarf, tunicle[obs3], chasuble, alb[obs3], alba[obs3], stole; fanon[obs3], fannel[obs3]; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote[obs3], calotte[obs3]; bands; capouch[obs3], amice[obs3]; vagas[obs3], vakas[obs3], vakass[obs3]; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals[obs3], pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... scene Derby represented an ecclesiastic in full canonicals walking between two stalwart and half-naked Indians, carrying a crook and crozier, with a tooth-brush attached to one and a comb to the other; while the letters "I. H. S." on the priest's chasuble were paraphrased into the words, "I hate Siwashes." It must not be thought, however, that Derby's life was wholly devoted to fun and frivolity, for he has been pronounced by an accomplished military writer and critic to have been "an able and accomplished engineer." He was the author of ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
... in the suburb of Vaucelles, at Caen. St. Nicholas, church of at Caen its roof like those of the Irish stone-roofed chapels. St. Peter, church of at Caen sculpture upon the capital of one of the columns. St. Philibert, founder of Jumieges. St. Regnobert, bishop of Bayeux, his chasuble kept in the cathedral, domestic animals blessed on his feast-day. St. Stephen, church of, at Caen. St. Stephen, abbey of, at Caen, its privileges now used as the college. St. Stephen, abbey church of, at Caen, described formed on the the Roman model burial-place ...
— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner
... these, madame," he went on, as he picked up a priest's chasuble, now doing duty as a table covering "would sell their fathers and their mothers. It is all a question ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd |
