cassock

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• Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
• Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
• The moirée silk of the cassock, the cappa magna and the biretta was of a pale rose color.
• I noticed that his cassock was a little frayed at the sleeves and short in the skirt. Incubus
• She threw in the Dacron cassock and surplice, too, the scent lingering. TOUCH
• But it seems that the cassock and the cross can become an amazing uniform which still has the power to give its wearer a protected voice.
• He called to mind the peculiarities of the "tui" of the natives, sometimes called the mockingbird from its incessant chuckle, and sometimes "the parson," in allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like plumage. In Search of the Castaways
• He was greeted by the Pope, dressed in a white cassock, who then brought him to the private library for a meeting.
• For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a velvet gowne, and at a bridal in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goes in a pounced dublet and a paire of embroidered hosen, the the Cities to weare a fries Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the The Arte of English Poesie
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