"Surpliced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we drove on, and the day after we reached Fontevrault. The Abbess, accompanied by her entire community, came to welcome us at the main gate, and her surpliced ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan
... Dean of Westminster, and behind him were gathered the cathedral clergy, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the scarlet and white surpliced ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook
... reeling years, The crown and chief of certitudes, For whose calm eyes and modest ears Time writes the rule and text of prudes— That, surpliced, stoops a nuptial head, Nor chooses to live blindly free, But, with all pulses quieted, Plays tunes of domesticity— That Love I sing of and have sung And mean to sing till Death yawn sheer, He rules the music ...
— The Heptalogia • Algernon Charles Swinburne |
