I find thought that the cassock is as much a reminder to me of my call as a sign for others. From Wordnik.com. [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference
His cassock was a good one, and his hat, though dusty, shapely and new. From Wordnik.com. [The Isle of Unrest] Reference
I noticed that his cassock was a little frayed at the sleeves and short in the skirt. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
A cassock was a mark for the insults and outrages of soldiers and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Every one wore a kind of cassock of the brown coarse material; a few were girdled with belts of skin, having well-wrought metal buckles. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
His cassock is his only mail. From Wordnik.com. [Trees and Other Poems] Reference
He wore a black cassock and sat with a book open on his lap. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
My vestments consisted simply of a stole worn over my cassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Monsieur le Curé tucked it safely in the breast of his cassock. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The parson in his silk cassock, and his helpmate in brown damask. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
And here a little man without a cassock, dressed as a soldier of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After being properly vested in a cassock two sizes too large for him. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
He was wearing a white cassock with a white linen hood drawn up over his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
But having put that cassock on, it poisoned him: he was strangled in his bands. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Mr. Whittimore pulled up his cassock and showed the Warden that he had his pants on. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Two of them have a scarf over a surplice or, as is more likely, a loose-sleeved cassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
One that thinks the gravest cassock the best scholar; and the best cloaths the finest man. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Palais Royal, an individual in a seedy cassock, he fancied that he had discovered his man. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Dressing up conservative politics in a borrowed cassock is calculation masquerading as consecration. From Wordnik.com. [In The Name Of The Father] Reference
And then the door opened and Father Dormer came in in his cassock, which he always wore in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
We also had a real padre, who wore a surplice, cassock, and helmet, and who preached an indifferent sermon. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Vasco, in return, sent the King a cassock, two strings of coral, three washhand basins, a hat, and some bells. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
He tucked up his cassock with decision, took his biretta and walking-staff, and said to the three goat-herds. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
He crossed his strong arms in the rusty black sleeves of his cassock, and for some moments looked at me seriously. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
"And it's your present misfortune to be governor of New York," added the canon, ripping at the buttons of his cassock. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
His first cassock was hand-sewn by his mother, who became a seamstress after her stonecutter husband died when Joseph was 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference
But they blundered when Benedict had to make his debut blessing in a cassock that was too short, ending just above his ankles. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
All these were provided for him by his friends, and a pretty cassock put on upon him, upon the scaffold, wherein he was hanged. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Some men the cassock effeminates; not so North, whose virile shape it emphasized, modelling his muscles like an antique drapery. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
For two hours Law -- who stood the entire time, solemn in his black cassock -- withstood the fire and promised an end to secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [Faith In Our Fathers?] Reference
"Men of the sword like us ever reverence tierce, quarte, and octave; but as for the folds of the cassock, I know nothing of them.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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