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Once I had stuffed myself behind the wheel with my surplice billowing around me like a collapsed parachute, I switched into passive mode.
He became a canon of Salisbury in 1563, but objected to the use of the surplice and to contributing to the repairs of the cathedral.
The surplice was also associated with the monastic orders, but vesture distinguished only the order and not the kind of order.
So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
After washing and shaving the deceased, they dressed him in his cassock, surplice and stole.
One day, a great eagle seized Emyo Zenji's surplice, flew with it to some mountains, and hung it on a large pine bough.
Otherwise, they wear their proper choir dress or a surplice over a cassock.
The view of all the choir shows Kevin by himself at the altar and the 4 Anglican Ministers in the surplice stall.
The only other dark face in the photo is that of Francois, who, dressed in the cassock and surplice of an acolyte, stands to one side of the pastor.
In addition some suspected that liberals might find themselves in the dock for failing, contrary to church law, to wear proper church vesture such as cassock and surplice.
A piano was played, hymns were sung, we all duly recited the confession, creeds and responses, and the curate ascended the pulpit with surplice flowing.
History will be made that weekend when the standard of the order will be raised in the town by the local Knights, who wear a surplice with the cross emblem.
From the loose sleeves of his surplice, emerge long hands whorled with loose-skinned knuckles.
As stated above, King's Scholars wear a black gown over the top of their tailcoats, and occasionally a surplice in Chapel.
By the middle of the 19th century the church still retained many Anglican features such as the use of the surplice and the Book of Common Prayer.
He was a wide man and looked wider in his surplice, especially from our pew, which was close up under the pulpit.
His churchman's cappa and lace surplice foreshortened him still more.
The Lutherans rejected the insignia of a celibate clergy but retained the chasuble for Communion services and the surplice and alb for other services.
After washing your hands, vest in surplice, stole, and cope.
To lay offices such as the verger, who wears a gown over cassock, and chorister, who wears a surplice, Anglicans have added that of the lay reader, who vests in cassock and surplice, with a scarf as his ensign.
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The surplice was the badge of priestcraft, and he thanked God he was not a priest.
He returned the bottle to his pocket, and went to the vestry for his surplice.
She even made a minister doll, in clerical collar and surplice, and used to rent him out for doll weddings.
The man in the group behind the bishop, who is in surplice and hood and biretta, is probably the archdeacon.
The outer garment is the chasuble, and beneath it the linen alb or surplice.
What payment could he offer, he who could scarcely find the coins to fill his salt-box or to mend his surplice?
As the Sanctus of high mass sounded, Julien wanted to take a surplice to follow the bishop in the superb procession.
In 1565 he, with the Fellows and scholars, appeared in Chapel without the surplice.
I dare say he will step down-stairs into the chapel and 257put on his surplice.
Whittenden heard about it, and came running, book in one hand, surplice in the other.
The bishop was to wear a rochet, a surplice or albe, and a cope or vestment.
Two clerics in surplice hold the housel cloth to catch any of the sacred elements which might accidentally fall.
Does a priest's surplice differ from that worn by a lay vicar, or vicar choral?
He wrote Anacreontic poems, full of wine and love, and appears to us like a reveller masking in a surplice.
Now, pale-blue dead, body cleansed, white surplice covered by full episcopal canonicals, he was to make his last missionary journey.
The old reprobate with the surplice burst into a volley of bad language.
Josiah Graves thereupon resigned all his offices, and that very evening sent to the church for his cassock and surplice.
The sight of a surplice, the sound of bells, scares them away.
At length a priest in a surplice came out of a little cottage.
An acolyte appeared, followed by the aged priest in his surplice.
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