| White T-shirts, white jeans, white ponchos, even white surplices stood out in the hot July sun. |
| Its trade is chasubles and mitres, stoles and lace surplices, Roman collars and cardinal red socks, packed thick into its dark wood cupboards. |
| The scarlet was repeated in the medieval uniforms of the Yeoman of the Guard, the choir surplices, and the robes of the Aldermen and the Archbishop of York, Dr Donald Coggan. |
| Powerful lights made their white surplices glow like neon, and the pulpitted priest seemed to be borne aloft on a cloud of pure radiance. |
| Stretching along each side are lines of choirboys and girls in bright surplices, holding flags and honey-scented tapers. |
| This was about the clerk of that parish, whose wife used to wash the parson's surplices. |
