Sample Sentences forHigh Mass (auto-selected)
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The family attends high mass services offered in Latin.High Mass = a Roman Catholic or Anglican religious service with more ceremony than an ordinary mass
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High mass.† (source)
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With a half-repentant, half-amused expression, Laurie gathered up all Jo's letters, smoothed, folded, and put them neatly into a small drawer of the desk, stood a minute turning the ring thoughtfully on his finger, then slowly drew it off, laid it with the letters, locked the drawer, and went out to hear High Mass at Saint Stefan's, feeling as if there had been a funeral, and though not overwhelmed with affliction, this seemed a more proper way to spend the rest of the day than in writing letters to charming young ladies.† (source)
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Lourdes imagines white azaleas and an altar set for high mass on an April Sunday.† (source)
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And, of course, the planters, always the planters, coming to town with their families in shining landaus to buy evening gowns and silver and gems, to crowd the narrow streets on the way to the old French Opera House and the Theatre d'Orleans and the St. Louis Cathedral, from whose open doors came the chants of High Mass over the crowds of the Place d'Armes on Sundays, over the noise and bickering of the French Market, over the silent, ghostly drift of the ships along the raised waters of the Mississippi, which flowed against the levee above the ground of New Orleans itself, so that the ships appeared to float against the sky.† (source)
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In the distance, on the other side of the colonial city, the bells of the Cathedral were ringing for High Mass.† (source)
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And Paquita says that at High Mass one day she saw Pedro passing Tita a love letter, perfumed and everything!† (source)
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They made themselves as comfortable as they could on a rock formation that jutted out like a shelf from a hip-high mass of stone.† (source)
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The hospital was a collection of corrugated tin roofs and whitewashed concrete walls sitting beside a church in the forest, where bells rang and you heard a sound of hymns and the words of the high mass spoken in Bantu.† (source)
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Milagros had soaked the child in holy water after taking him to high mass at the Cathedral, but still he was feverish and wailed, as if he were mourning his own death before going.† (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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She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.† (source)
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The pontifical nuptial high mass was celebrated by such a galaxy of cardinals and bishops and nuncios that there seemed to be no part of the immense church which was not teeming with violet and scarlet and incense and little boys ringing silver bells.† (source)
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These manifestations of public piety were to be concluded on Sunday by a High Mass celebrated under the auspices of St. Roch, the plaguestricken saint, and Father Paneloux was asked to preach the sermon.† (source)
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High Mass was at eleven the next morning, the parish priest officiating and the Bishop in the Episcopal chair.† (source)
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Bishop O'Neill sang solemn high mass and the cardinal gave the final absolutions.† (source)
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