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... they all listened devoutly as Aunt Janice read the Twenty-third Psalm, after which they joined her in prayer and in the singing of the doxology. Then bidding Aunt Janice a hasty good-night, tired out with the day's adventure, the Merediths trooped away to enjoy the great blessing of ...

— The Quest of Happy Hearts • Kathleen Hay

... Lindsay was singing an impromptu doxology, but the face of him—so well was that face trained to do his bidding—became tinged with disgust and disappointment. With two "real boys" he was talking; he knew them by the unconscious range vernacular and the perfect candor with which they lied to him about themselves. But not ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... what form of prayer do we praise the Holy Trinity? A. We praise the Holy Trinity by a form of prayer called the Doxology, which has come down to us almost from the time of ...

— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous

... said John, exultantly, during one of these vocal inundations. "He's a-singin' the doxology. Now I believe ...

— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham

... and guests alike—rose to their feet as one man. Then to Peter's and my own intense surprise that most impressive of all chants, the Doxology in long metre, surged out, gaining in volume and strength as its strains were caught up ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... same scholarly objection to the Greeks," added Nello, in a more mocking tone, and with a significant grimace, "the fact is, you are heretics, Messer; jealousy has nothing to do with it: if you would just change your opinion about leaven, and alter your Doxology a little, our Italian scholars would think it a thousand years till they could give up their chairs to you. Yes, yes; it is chiefly religious scruple, and partly also the authority of a great classic,—Juvenal, is it not? He, I gather, had his bile as much stirred ...

— Romola • George Eliot

Words linked to "Doxology" : hymn, anthem, Christian liturgy