The left sleeve of Monseigneur's decidedly rusty serge soutane bore the well-known brassard.
Franky reflected, staring after the short black figure in the caped soutane with the worn purple sash and shabby beaver shovel-hat, as it receded from his view.
And it was but at the time of the Parliament leaving College Green they began to wear the Soutane that they wear now.
His small head set off with glossy red curls and his newly shaven face agreed well with the spotless decency of his soutane and with his spotless shoes.
Like a levite's robe of plain linen the faded worn soutane draped the kneeling figure of one whom the canonicals or the bell-bordered ephod would irk and trouble.
Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.
He produced four candle-butts from the side-pockets of his soutane and placed them deftly among the coals and twisted papers.
The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together with the palms and fingers in a livid quivering mass.
The preacher took a chainless watch from a pocket within his soutane and, having considered its dial for a moment in silence, placed it silently before him on the table.
He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike.
They remember the day when the farm of Père Marin burned; they recall the figure in the black soutane stumbling on through flame and smoke carrying an unconscious little girl in his strong arms to safety.
He paused, and drew forth from the breast of his soutane a small cotton sack that had once held his gun wads.
What I saw was a man uncommonly tall and well built, dressed in a rusty black soutane that reached in straight lines from beneath his chin to his feet, which were encased in low calf shoes with steel buckles.
How many a suffering heart seeking human sympathy and advice has the strong figure in the soutane sent home with fresh courage by way of this back lane.
He was a type of the fashionable ecclesiastic, suave, smiling, faultlessly dressed in silk soutane and silver buckled shoes, and wearing a heavy gold chain with a jewelled cross.
The afternoons we spent at home in the garden, where the Chaplain, in his black soutane and biretta, was always sitting under the old tree, reading his breviary.
Instead of a hat he wore a tight-fitting cap, his soutane was rusty and patched in many places, and his feet were shod with moccasins like the Indians.
In front of him a man dressed in a black soutane was seated at a table placed before the window.
His shoulders, though narrow, were very square, and in any other garment than a thin soutane his slightness of build would scarcely have been noticeable.
Your soutane saves you from being called to account by the gentleman whose honour you have aspersed.
Things may happen this time," said I, "and the good father may wish to keep his soutane clear of them.
They're festering under his soutane even now, belike!
The soutaneof light scarlet cloth has a train; over this is worn the white rochet trimmed with deep lace and over this again the cappa magna a voluminous circular cloak of red watered silk, with a single opening for the head.
At social receptions a cardinal wears his blacksoutane and red sash, and over it a flowing scarlet silk cloak from the shoulder.
The priest struck the skirt of his soutane from time to time as he listened, but he was not so grieved as Pan Serafin had expected.
The old man took off his soutane and went to dressing the wounds with the skill of a veteran who had seen thousands of wounded men, and who from long practice knew how to handle wounds better than many a surgeon.
And if he does not return I will not tear the soutane on my body.
Eleanor noticed that his soutanewas dusty and torn, and that he was unshaven.
He sat, folding his soutane upon his knee, answering in monosyllables to the questions that she put him.
They followed his broad back and swinging black soutane to the farthest corner of the hospital space.
He was a young man with thick dark hair almost concealed beneath his black three-cornered cap, and as he walked, his long black soutane swung about him in vigorous folds.
When she saw the soutane of a priest, black in the lamplight, moving towards her over the whiteness of the sand, she said to herself that it was to be so followed.
Although clad in a soutane he looked, at that moment, like a type of the most joyous tolerance, and Domini could not help mentally comparing him with the priest of Beni-Mora.
Then she saw that it gleamed upon a long black robe, the soutane of a priest.
Probably he was one of those many men who actively hate the priesthood, to whom the soutane is anathema.
At some distance in the twilight of the tunnel Domini saw a black figure in a soutane walking very slowly towards them.
This she acknowledged the next day, when she saw me in my soutane and other priestly garments, such as she had never before seen.
I had a soutane besides and a biretta, but the Superior would not have us use these except in the chapel.
However, I changed the soutane which I was wearing for a secular coat, but my books and manuscript meditations, which I had there in considerable quantities, I was quite unable to conceal.
Judge of my amazement on meeting him on Notre Dame street, in soutane and broad-brimmed hat, and finding he had taken to Mother Church.
When he swung about, the skirt of his soutane was inflated slightly by the brusqueness of his movements.
And only the priest continued his pacing, flinging round the skirt of his soutane at each end of his beat.
For a few minutes he gave way and called the looters by names it did the old priest good to hear, for the soutane put a limit on his own language.
The old man wore a tattered garment, a miracle of shining cleanliness, which had once been a soutane of smooth black cloth, but was now a mass of patches and threadbare at shoulders and knees.
Some have exchanged thesoutane for the uniform, and have fought bravely and well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soutane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
