He found them everywhere, and told himself with some shame that he was one of them, that the unit of his own personality served to increase the incredible number of cassocks that one encountered in the streets.
Next the talk turned on the three white cassocks of different sizes which are always kept in readiness in a cupboard at the Vatican.
In it are diverse and wondrous companies, clad in cassocks of white linen, with hoods of radiant white upon their heads.
They passed the gate, their train bearers lifted their cassocks and helped them to kneel, a moment's prayer was mumbled, and they took their seats with the same servile assistance.
Dressed in black cassocks and hoods that covered their faces, Lorenzo and five of Tilia's black servants stood along the walls of the room.
At the foot of the altar two priests in black cassocks and white surplices knelt on benches, their heads resting on their folded arms so that it was impossible to tell whether they were sleeping or praying.
He looked round at his friends and called out something to the effect that here was another monkey in petticoats--we wear our cassocks in the streets--and see how he'd do for um!
These are two intense youths, who dress in cassocks and tippets all day long, and wear their berrettas everywhere.
He should feel strange among these priests with their foreign ways, their cassocks and berrettas; there would be discomfort in the visit.
Then there were old people who seemed quite scared, and distracted priests who, forgetting their calling, caught up their cassocks with both hands, so that they might run the faster to the dining-room.
He has trained, also, as many as forty Indian boys in the ceremonies, and, in their crimson cassocks and white surplices, they aid the sacred pomp.
The ruby- studded crucifixes they wore against their black cassocks seemed to shoot red sparks into the evening air.
Beside him strode his almoner, and two little servitors of the court in crimson cassocks bearing lighted torches.
It was now, however, that the stratagem of making my men quit or turn their cassocks procured us great advantages which I had not foreseen.
Let him have a cassock to preach in; let him have three cassocksif he find benefit in them!
We here translate it entire: 'By Church-Clothes, it need not be premised that I mean infinitely more than Cassocks and Surplices; and do not at all mean the mere haberdasher Sunday Clothes that men go to Church in.
Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassockslast too long VI.
As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak.
In the group of clergy some wore the flaming scarlet robes of cardinals, some the plain cassocks of village priests; and events proved that these last were brothers in spirit with the six hundred.
A few liberals among the nobles and more than a few of the clergy in simplecassocks appeared to agree with them.
At this moment the captain of the mast and four soldiers, wearingcassocks of black felt with white crosses, approached the bench to which the Moor was chained.
A few rustic valets, attired in cassocks of brown serge, served the table under the orders of the major-domo, the liveries with the colours of the baron never leaving the wardrobe except on feast-days.
But for the red cassocks of the little jumping peasants, the aspect is that of the Champs Elysees.
In cassocks clad I have had many brothers In southern cloisters where the laurel grows, They paint Madonnas like fair human mothers And I dream of young Titians and of others In which the God with shining radiance glows.
No less than four of the seven McGillicuddy boys were altar boys, wearing little red cassocks and white surplices in church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cassocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
