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... literary merit, a noticeable contrast, and it is scarcely to be believed that both formularies can have proceeded from one and the same pen. Another step in the Protestant direction was the prohibition of certain vestments that in the First Book had been allowed, as the alb and cope. The Introit Psalms were taken away. The word "table" was everywhere substituted for the word "altar." The changes in the Office of the Holy Communion were numerous and significant. The Ten Commandments, for ...

— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington

... a chasuble, the day when first we met; A stole and snowy alb likewise,—I recollect it yet. He called me "daughter," as he raised his jeweled hand to bless; And then, in thrilling undertones, he ...

— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... chaplain is one of the cleverest men going; and the widow's awfully clever, too. They got beyond me in no time. They were talking all sorts of stuff about Gregorian chants, ecclesiastic symbolism, mediaeval hymns, the lion of St Mark, chasuble, alb, and all that sort of thing, you know, no end, and I sat like a log listening, just the same as though they spoke Chinese, while the widow took no more notice of me than if I'd been a Chinaman. And she kept up that till we left. And that was her way of paying me ...

— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille

Words linked to "Alb" : vestment