Catholic priest's cassock

Usage examples of soutane.

Walking rapidly, as usual in boots, breeches and soutane, he strode up the rocky ramp to the Acropolis, through the frowning Propylon, past the Erechtheum, on up the incline with its slippery rough stones to the Parthenon, and.

Javan dropped the scapular back onto the grass and contented himself with doing up the throat of his soutane.

The black soutane he wore as a seminarian fastened at the right shoulder and down the right side, and he undid enough of the buttons to loosen the standing collar, briefly pulling the opening away from his neck a few times to puff air inside.

Hij kreeg een groeiend gezelschap van kleine kinderen achter zich aan die hem brutaal uitlachten en spottend wezen naar die magere man met zijn grote neus en zijn bijna kale kop, zijn wapperende soutane en zijn driftig zwaaiende armen.

At some distance in the twilight of the tunnel Domini saw a black figure in a soutane walking very slowly towards them.

Although clad in a soutane he looked, at that moment, like a type of the most joyous tolerance, and Domini could not help mentally comparing him with the priest of Beni-Mora.

Pointe des Monts and winding in behind the Isles des Oeufs to the River Pentecoute, where she deposited some more habitans, including a priest in a black soutane, who somewhat incongruously was smoking a large cigar.

He shrugged out of the heavy soutane and let it fall in a pool of wool around his feet, stepping free awkwardly to sit on the edge of the bed, now clad only in the baggy underdrawers the monks were allowed.

Your soutane saves you from being called to account by the gentleman whose honour you have aspersed.

But he accepted the confession nonetheless, hearing with mounting anger the skein of the Jesuit's sins: the pair of underpants he had stolen from Soutane that had, apparently, alerted her to the fact that her apartment had been searched, her subsequent entrapment of the priest in the Cours Saleya, his divulging everything he knew of the Forest of Swords, of who he was working for, including Dante's name.

Nancy's at the front door with her arms crossed and her chin stuck out by the time Father Crosby has taken off his bicycle clips and is lumbering up the front path with the Bitzers all sniffing and jumping around the hem of his soutane, tongues lolling, thinking he must be a good bloke because Bozo's banned a bark.

Behind them came more priests in dripping soutanes, holding flickering red torches and gold crosses.

Sir Percy could only see their backs, clad in black soutanes, shiny at the seams, threadbare across the shoulders, and the worn soles of their shoes.

After removing their dirty soutanes and showering away the dust of the journey, the men put on fresh cassocks.