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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chapter Three Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector's imperfectly ironed surplice .
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Even more successful in this purpose is the white surplice which happily hangs from Anglican shoulders.
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In his billowing white surplice he looked like a dishevelled old bird struggling to take off in a high wind.
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Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice , was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
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Our table is graced by a single chorister - salt in a fluted surplice .
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The elderly cleric was standing in the doorway in his surplice to welcome them.
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The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognise, and that included the surplice .