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It takes a moment for Lev to recognize him—mainly because he's not wearing his modest pastor's vestments.† (source)
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I could throw in some sacrificial virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and diaphanous vestments.† (source)
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On top of each tomb, in full papal vestments, lay life-sized semblances of each Pope, shown in death, arms folded across their chests.† (source)
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For weeks after his demise, his vestments and his cane hung from the coat tree in the vestry office—as if old Mr. Scammon had journeyed no farther from this world than to the adjacent toilet.† (source)
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It was the Reverend Strick, walking in his vestments toward my parents.† (source)
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As I helped Edouard and Monsignor Frey place the vestments on the stiffened corpse I noticed the browning skin and slackening mouth.† (source)
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Not a holy-rolling, fire-and-brimstone guy by any stretch, but not a soft-spoken minister in vestments, performing liturgical readings either.† (source)
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An old man stepped out, dressed in raw cotton pants and a plain vestment made from some rough fabric just shy of burlap.† (source)
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The temple's vestments and equipment had been thrown into the street, or found their way to other decade rooms on other ships.† (source)
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CRANMER (Laying the cross of his vestment on the table) Place your left hand on this and raise your right handtake your hat off— Now say after me: I swear by my immortal soul— (JAILER, overlapping, repeats the oath with him) —that I Will report truly anything said by Sir Thomas More against the King, the Council or the State of the Realm.† (source)
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When we played make-believe, I'd put a sheet over my shoulders and pretend I was walking down long corridors, saying my beads, in my starched vestments.† (source)
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Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and to pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.† (source)
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The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.† (source)
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The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that hitherto had always covered it even from the professional eye.† (source)
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Some were clad in the cloth-of-silver vestments and crystal coronals that marked the Most Devout; their humbler brethren wore their crystals on thongs about their necks and cinched white robes with seven-stranded belts, each plait a different color.† (source)
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Ashes or earth dug out dry would be of one color with his vestment, and from beneath that he drew two keys.† (source)
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