"Alb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reciting the thanksgiving after service, and at the same time unfastening the cords of my alb, the rector came up to me (I see him even ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
... the thatched whitewashed cottages forming a street that curves round almost into a loop, while a chattering stream runs between the houses. In the church is the figure of a tonsured priest, with chasuble, stole, and alb, supposed to be one of the early Vicars of Axmouth. At his feet lies a dog, and the legend goes that this was not merely the customary image of a dog seen on tombs, but the effigy of his own favourite, whom he desired to be buried at his feet; and as an indemnity ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote
... Alb. Reville, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies |
