The canopy was awaiting him outside the railings, surrounded by priests in surplices and chasubles, all a glitter of white and gold in the rays of the setting sun.
It was a saint's-day evening, and consequently chapel was at a quarter past six instead of six, and the undergraduates wore surplices in chapel instead of their ordinary gowns.
The good Lord didn't make your surplices a full eighth of a yard too long, nor put you into a black stole for the whole year round.
They have turned the theatre back into a chapel again: they have six little ploughboys dressed in surplices to sing the service; and Frank and the Vicar of Kewbury play at cricket with them on holidays.
Choir-boys at a distance in their surplices are generally charming.
Two and two, led by one who bore a cross, the song-boys in scarlet and white came first, then Benedictine monks in black, then priests of the cathedral in violet cloth with fine white linen surplices and bearing wax candles.
We could put a card in the window, saying all the clergy bought the linen for their surplices here.
Amarilly solemnly accepted this invitation, and then went home, trundling a big cart which contained the surplices and the rectory laundry.
There was a short, sharp conflict in Amarilly's conscience before she convinced herself it would not be wrong to allow the impromptu choir to don the surplicesof St. Mark's.
These surplices are all too long or too short for me," complained the young tenor, who had recently been engaged for the solo parts.
All Saints Church, Old Swan, is the first Liverpool church which has adopted the innovation of lady choristers wearing the new surplices and caps, which have been specially designed for their use.
The surplices are quite unlike those used by the clergy; they are more like dolmans.
Here I heard very good musique, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and singing-men insurplices in my life.
Up by three o'clock this morning, and rode to Cambridge to King's College chappel, where I found the scholars in their surplices at the service with the organs, which is a strange sight to what it used in my time to be here.
Mr. Skale was moving beside him, and the next minute they were in the narrow vestibule between the doors, hanging up ordinary coloredsurplices upon ordinary iron nails.
Some swung thesurplices across their arms; some crammed them into bags; and an unusual silence pervaded the group.
It was built immediately over a portion of the cloisters, and a flight of stairs descended from it into the room in which the cathedral clergymen put their surpliceson and off.
Six clergymen in surplices and fifteen other communicants.
We were ordered to wear clean surplices this afternoon.
Ready in their surplices and trenchers, Tom Channing gave the word of command, and they were on the point of filing out, when a freak took Pierce senior to leave his proper place in the ranks, and walk by the side of Brittle.
The choristers had been taking off their surplices also, and were now trooping through the cloisters back to the schoolroom, not more gently than usual.
The king's scholars were slinging their surplices on their arms to depart, for they had full holiday for the remainder of the day, when they were surprised by the entrance of Mr. Huntley.
Not the dean and chapter; they robed in the chapter-house: and the king's scholars put on their surplices in the schoolroom.
The king's scholars were in the schoolroom, cramming their surplices into bags, or preparing to walk home with them thrown upon their arms, and making enough hubbub to alarm the rooks.
They then put on their surplices; and rather damp surplices some of them were.
He might have preached in six surplices if he had liked," cried poor Louisa--"who would have minded?
But to think at this crowning moment that a villanous doubt of the benefit of these surplices and lilies should seize his troubled heart!
For the ecstasy of ironing those surplices she would have remained a spinster forever.
To iron his surplices as only she could iron when the divine fury seized her!
Prebendaries of Westminster, in surplicesand rich copes.
Copes and surplices might be seen hanging on hooks offered for sale at the old-clothes shops.
At the Porcherons and at Ramponneau's men decked out in surplices and stoles bestrode donkeys caparisoned with chasubles, and drank wine from ecclesiastical ciboria.
On Saturday evenings, Sundays, and Saints' days the students wearsurplices instead of their gowns, and very innocent and exemplary they look in them.
On Saturday evenings, Sundays, and Saints' days, the students wear surplices instead of their gowns, and very innocent and exemplary they look in them.
All the above, being Graduates, when they use surplices in chapel wear over them their hoods, which are peculiar to the several degrees.
When the body of singers of the Church service is composed of boys and men they are vested in cassocks and surplices or cottas and given a place in the Chancel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surplices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
