Example Sentences

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White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano.

From Time Magazine Archive

The women kneel in the aisles, shrouding their heads in their shawls; the surpliced acolyte swings his censer; the heavy perfume of burning incense fills the hall.

From Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

Ivy looked from the End House to her father, surpliced at the lectern, reading the Proper Lesson appointed for Brains Sunday, Proverbs 8 and 9.

From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Associate them with organ and surpliced choir, and you are mixing up things that differ.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The church had a good choir of men and boys, surpliced, which was, very sensibly, placed near the organ in one of the transepts.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)