| 单词 | tonsure |
| 例句 | There were clerks with neat little skull-caps to keep their tonsures warm, dressed in sober clothes which contrasted with the laity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Franciscan, who was asleep on the table, has raised his tonsured head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They banged against the pavement, sending up the dust, and a man with a tonsure, whose legs were still below street level, paused and turned to watch her go by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When Father Alphonse sees me, he reddens to the very roots of his sparse tonsure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I pulled at my beard, and the abbot said, “William, you have taken the vows. You wear the robe. You will soon be tonsured. You may not fight. Anyone. For any reason.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he rubs his bald tonsure and says, "Well, I am expected tonight at the Abbey Maubuisson. I fear they will lock the doors on me if I don't show soon." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His brown robes and tonsured hair showed him to be a priest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The two heads bent over the parchment together, Brother Luke’s tonsured, Robin’s dark and thickly thatched. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Now he was small and wizened, with sparse gray tonsured hair. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z For that time it was Lancelot’s fate and Guenever’s to take the tonsure and the veil, while Mordred must be slain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z From then until his death in 1886 he sported a tonsure and an abbé’s robes: signs of sanctity to some and hypocrisy to others. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z She depicts them as tonsured monks, “ascetic and contemplative,” working on the book together, Taylor helping Bechdel with the color. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z A gaggle of monks in brown habits, their heads tonsured in repentant horseshoes, rises and begins to chant. After U.S. sex abuse scandals, an accused priest rises again in Paraguay 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead, its hair is black, like mine, and raggedly scuttles onto his forehead like the tonsure of a Tibetan yak left out in the rain. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leggo my Lego 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z His hair is formed into a salt-and-pepper tonsure with a sparse cirrus on top. Up Close: Martial Vivot, Barber to the Famous and Not-Quite 2011-03-02T18:28:34Z But there he was in the margins, instantly, totally recognizable: brown-robed, bearded, tonsured, on his knees, hands and eyes directed skyward, giving himself to God and to his fellow creatures alike. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z His Semitic features suggested intelligence, but his shambling gait and inattention to his tonsure and sartorial presence suggested a man under extraordinary stress. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z His head was shiny bald except for a monklike tonsure, and rather red—very red after he had started drinking for the day, which was at lunch. Robert A. Caro on the Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For a while, I found this rousing, until I learned that monks would tonsure themselves as a means of deliberately becoming unattractive. Letter of Recommendation: Balding 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The best-known temple for tonsuring, as the practice is known, in the town of Tirupati, collects hundreds of tons of hair every year, auctioning it off for millions of dollars. New Delhi robbers escape with valuable commodity: Hair 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But, he was blessed by Archbishop Benjamin in 2011 and says he’s the first official tonsured bell-ringer in the United States since the Russian Revolution. Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Millions travel to Hindu temples in southern India every year to get their hair shaved - or "tonsured" as it is known when it is done for religious reasons. Untangling where your hair extensions really come from - BBC News 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The practice of hair-shaving - or "tonsuring" as it is termed when done for religious reasons - is associated with an ancient Hindu myth. How Indians shave their head and hope for luck - BBC News 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z I had a tonsure, so I wore a hat and arranged my remaining hanks around my ears, like Shylock. 'Shaving my head led to my first orgasm': writers on their lives in hair 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Tall, thin, tonsured, he looked like a mild-mannered Quaker, and turned out to be a descendant of ministers and missionaries. Brother from Another Mother 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z That moon of a face, the shiny tonsure, the lank side-curtains of hair – ghost of a defrocked priest. Sex and wheels: Zadie Smith on JG Ballard's Crash 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z In temples in south India devotees travel for hundreds of miles and queue for hours to have their hair tonsured, or ritually shaved. The hair trade's dirty secret 2012-10-28T20:00:01Z The southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are where most hair tonsuring in India takes place. How Indians shave their head and hope for luck - BBC News 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Even the unmistakably grizzling, though still thick, long, flowing hair, which the scissors of the tonsure have not dared to touch, detracts but little from the heart entrancing charm of his unusual individuality. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Similarly at Langley Dame Cecily Folgeham said that her friends gave ten marks to the house “when she was tonsured, but not by covenant.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z All the abuses for which clerical immunity furnished opportunity nourished, and the land was overrun by vagrants whose tonsure gave them charter to rob and brawl, and dice and drink. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Is it fitting that wearers of the tonsure should have greater store of soldiers and arms than we? A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z But to my joy as I came up to it, closely followed by the others, it opened of itself, and a priest, showing his tonsured head in the aperture, beckoned to us to hasten. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z After all thy tonsures and chorales, thy credos and sackcloth, wilt thou admit the Evil One in the guise of a melody, in whose chromatic intervals lie dimpled cheek and sunny tress! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But a second glance failed to discover either litter or bier; and a nearer approach showed that the travellers, whether they wore the tonsure or not, bore weapons of one kind or another about them. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Clerks were to be distinguished by tonsure, vestments, and conduct. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z There discernible amid the long fair hair was the pale shadow of a tonsure. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z That tonsure being all she saw, contradicted the tone effectually. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Fathers were known to be loyalists whose sons had received the tonsure. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Out from the church door comes the tonsured priest; he shakes his head, shrugs his shoulders, and makes his way down to where the great Almagro stands, a commanding figure amid the confusion. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z All who had received the first tonsure were eligible to the office of chaplain to the order. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z I've seen troops of little tonsured neophytes clad in scarlet, marching and countermarching and ducking and flopping, like poor little raw recruits for the heavenly host. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z His back was turned and nothing visible but his tonsure. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The Jesuit seminaristas bear themselves more decorously, the tonsures gleaming like silver coins on their young heads. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Black gowns, tonsured heads, and beads and rosaries are seen everywhere, and the padre is usually the most influential man in the town. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The foreigners we have expelled, now we must expel those mitred and tonsured traitors who summoned them. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z Her devotees carried into the new priesthood the former badges of their profession, the obligation to celibacy, the tonsure, and the surplice, omitting, unfortunately, the frequent ablutions prescribed by the ancient creed. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z He would also have been mindful to amend the tonsure, if his influence had availed so far. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z They wear tonsures on their heads the opposite of ours; that is to say, that, where ours shave they wear hair, and where we have the hair they shave it. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z He wore a purple robe, and the barettina or small skull cap, which covered the tonsure on his head, allowed his short grey hair, which curled naturally, to be seen around it. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z When the minstrel had joined himself to the Order he marked how the tonsured monks spoke amongst themselves by signs, no words coming from their lips, so he thought within himself that they were dumb. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z "Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man, who speaks falsehood, become a Sramana; can a man be a Sra-mana who is still held captive by desire and greediness?" Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z An important step is taken at this time by the Northern Picts in the acceptance of the Roman rules with regard to Easter and the tonsure. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z As a sannyasi he cast off his sacred thread and took the tonsure, but did not put on the yogi's dress. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z As a visible sign of their betrothal to the virgin, Brother Onesimus advised that the Brothers and Sisters all cut the tonsure. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z The student was exempted by his tonsure from lay jurisdiction. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z For a description of the ecclesiastical tonsure see Bede's Eccles. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z How could he, indeed? is he not tonsured? Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Born in 1709 and destined for the Church, or, more strictly speaking, for the emoluments thereof, he had been tonsured in infancy and loaded with benefices. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z And, while devotion In his wild eyes fantastic shone Under the tonsure blown upon By airs celestial, Calderon. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Get out of here, you tonsured dotard, canon of Satan! The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z The first little tonsure was at least symmetrical, could be called interesting. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Towards the end of the same year he was admitted to the diocesan seminary of Ermland, where he received confirmation, tonsure, and holy orders. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z Father Eusebius was standing behind the young man's chair and his eyes rested sadly and thoughtfully on the young head, with its thick crown of dark curls that waved rebelliously round the prescribed tonsure. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Notwithstanding the blue travelling dress he wore, his rank was distinguishable by the black calotte that concealed his tonsure; and, notwithstanding his leanness, he appeared accustomed to better and richer fare. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "What is the tonsured fellow whispering to the witch?" The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Well, after a while that little patch of gray hair began falling out, and finally it was a neat round tonsure on the top of the head. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z It now appeared that this person bore not the tonsure, and was even adorned with a warrior-like beard; his forehead and eye-brows were hidden by his yellowish red and combed down hair. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z The bare, shaven head, with its narrow tonsure, allowed no opportunity for careless drawing. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z His tonsure, augmented by a natural want of hair, extended to the whole of his head, which was covered with an octagonal cap of black velvet. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z I shall notify him of the danger there is in leaving you in the same cell with that witch, with whom you might enter into wicked machinations, you tonsured devil! The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z His head was as bald as an egg, with the exception of a ring of jet-black hair like a monkish tonsure. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Conscious power, therefore, gave colour to my cheeks and lustre to my eyes, while my luxuriant dark hair completely concealed all remains of the tonsure. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z "To-day, at least, you are not wrong," replied the other, taking off his hat, and showing him the tonsure. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z I hate to think of his thick, dark, waving hair clipped in the circle of the tonsure. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z If it is to be that way, the ways of the Lord are strange and inscrutable, as our tonsured friends say. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z That thou art a religious, thy profession, thy state, thy habit and tonsure, and the other marks of the religious life declare. On Union with God 2011-06-14T02:00:24.337Z Then the door of my room opened, and a dark form entered, in whom, to my extreme horror and amazement, I recognised myself in the capuchin habit, with the beard and tonsure! The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z The chances are against him, but if he has something better than maccaroni under his tonsure, he will make the Church his ladder to power. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Under a well-cultivated whisker uniting to the moustache upon his lips—in short the facial tonsure which distinguishes the habitué of the Horse Guards. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The cowl had fallen back, and the silver tonsure gleamed in the light. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z Many an overgrown tonsure was also restored to a shining smoothness on that day. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z Some cold water, poured on his tonsure, will benefit him. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Alcala's remorse was not for having read some books that did not increase his reverence for the hierarchy of Rome, nor for not having more frequently laid bare his inmost thoughts to a tonsured fellow-sinner. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z It was visible in the cut of his dress, the tonsure of his hair, and the joining of the moustache to his whiskers. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z They submit to the tonsure, take "minor orders," so to say, and wear the yellow robe, if only for a few months or weeks or days. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z You, who wear the tonsure and monk's habit, probably will not understand that. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z The mid-day sun shone on the smooth tonsure of the prostrate man. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z For such important occasions as births, marriages, tonsure, investiture with the sacred thread, and beginning the A, B, C, the Kanisan is, of course, indispensable. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Then come two private monsignori of the tonsure—still private!—then eighteen supernumeraries: two adjutants of the chamber, a private steward—again private!—then nineteen ushers, participants, and twenty-four supernumeraries. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He was known to aspire to knee-breeches, and was hopefully suspected of considering a tonsure as a means of grace and a sign of sanctity. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Children as they were, the little fellows wore already the monk's habit, and several even the tonsure on their eleven years old heads. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z He conceived, says his biographer Barotti, that "God called him by internal voices, and by promise of a more tranquil life, to accept the tonsure." The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z This is the seventeenth time I hear that identical remark—you being the seventeenth tonsured gentleman whom I sentence. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The Monk sits there, in his cell so bare, And he lowers his tonsured head, As he lifts the lid of the tankard hid 'Neath the straw of his trestle bed. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z The devil take the tonsured fraternity and the troopers! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z A sorry priest, forsooth, who consists of tonsure and vestment! Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z The tonsure and the Easter of Columbanus, however, shocked foreign ecclesiastics as contrary to the discipline of Rome, and he was required to renounce them. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z So, then, go your ways quickly and without further ado, you tonsured knave and mumbler of masses. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Lawyers, who were originally priests, of course wore the tonsure; but when the clergy ceased to interfere with secular affairs the lay lawyer continued this sign of office, and also wore a coif. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z The devil take the armed troopers and the tonsured gentry! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Who has ever seen meat, tonsures, cowls, monasteries, hair-shirts coming out of men's mouths? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z He was educated at the school of the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine at Brive, where he received the tonsure at the age of thirteen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z We know he is a Roman Catholic, and an ecclesiastic—his tonsure proclaims that; and your mamma told you that he is writing a book, so that is no revelation either. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z “Now it kind of looks like a bald guy with half a tonsure.” Trees in the Thousands Killed by NYC Storm 2010-09-17T23:27:00Z The assumption of the tonsure and linen habit by a debauchee like Commodus does not reassure us. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He who can do so without harm and or love of his neighbor, may wear a cowl or a tonsure, since it will not injure his faith; wearing a cowl will not kill him. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z They wanted to give him the tonsure, because he has some education and is decent-looking, but it did not quite suit him. Four Phases of Love His head was flat and bald, but for a fringe of white wool shaped like the tonsure of a monk. The Man from Jericho She is a sturdy Broad Protestant and disapproves of the Vicar's going bald like a tonsure. The Wonderful Visit The initiated might even wear the tonsure in the ordinary lay life. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius But if the doctrine that forbids certain kinds of food is devilish and unchristian, that which concerns clothes, tonsures, places and everything external will be just as devilish and unchristian. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z They had their own views about the shape of the tonsure, and also their own time for celebrating Easter, which was heretical and contumacious, and there began a struggle between Roman and Western Christianity. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland Five or six of the tonsured gentry had armed themselves with bows and arrows. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter I'd say, 'Is not this boy more to you than all those long-petticoated tonsured humbugs, who can always cheat some one or other out of an Inheritance?' Tony Butler Wave upon wave came the throng of those who had been admitted to full communion, all clad in linen, and the men marked with the tonsure. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Various preliminaries were needful to obtain admission, among them the tonsure. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern But he never took orders, the clerical tonsure being a sufficient qualification for holding canonries. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 All you need is a cowl and sandals, for nature has kindly tonsured your locks for you. With Edge Tools In 1788 he received the tonsure in order to enter the order of the Knights of Malta. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" An Egyptian priest with tonsure and linen robes raises a dead man to life who has been “floating on the Stygian streams.” Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The day of these tonsured people has gone by, that of the soldier has come!... The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess He obeyed with alacrity and the tonsured scalp reappeared. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Their shaven faces and tonsured heads heighten the resemblance between them. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction Every Priest wears his nimbus under his tonsure, so was I taught and so I learnt. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle You tonsured hypocrites may impose upon simpletons and fools, but my valiant friend Goose-Skin and myself are neither simpletons nor poltroons! The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades "I confide an important prisoner to you and you prove unable to watch him ... you miserable tonsured idlers ... topers and do-nothings!" The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess And yet, as days went by, I caught myself often thinking of this invisible, tonsured, and cowled companion of mine, whom Vane had seen, whom I did not see. Bye-Ways That boy, when grown to man's estate, was, upon orders of Pepin, your father, tonsured and locked up in a monastery, where he died obscure and forgotten. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century Are not your bands as a clergyman of the reformed church, and your now hidden tonsure, forgeries? Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle At her sight, the frocked debauchers, the tonsured tipplers, heated with wine, jump up neighing with lustful admiration. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades In May 1521 he was appointed to a chaplaincy attached to the altar of La G�sine in the cathedral of Noyon, and received the tonsure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The Irish Druids seem to have had a peculiar tonsure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Have I not seen the throne of the Caesars occupied by hypocritical, ambitious, greedy and debauched Popes, with their black-gowned and tonsured militia? The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century On their heads the nuns were to wear a white band with the veil over it; when necessary, on account of the tonsure, a bonnet of lamb skin might be worn. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) We shall thus know the number of those who have a spurred or a tonsured lover. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades They are naked—crowns, mitres, and tonsures alone remaining to distinguish their office. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Yet this Pagan rasure, or tonsure, as they choose to call it, on the crown of the head, has long been the distinguishing mark of the Romish priesthood. A Treatise on Relics Among the Buddhists there are priests who are ordained, tonsured, live in monasteries, and make vows of celibacy. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Gildas, thirty years before, stated directly that the Britons were contrary to the whole world, and hostile to the Roman custom, both in the Mass and in the tonsure. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 You are not here in France where the tonsured lackeys of Rome rule the roost!' The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades In matters of ritual they agreed with the Western Church on the continent, save in a few particulars such as the precise time of keeping Easter and manner of tonsure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" It may be another imposture of the tonsured fraternity. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium Their tonsure extends to the hair of the whole head. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Thus, too, in English ecclesiastical law, a clerk was any one who had been admitted to the ecclesiastical state, and had taken the tonsure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Do these tonsured folks take our country for the Holy land? The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Otherwise, in common with the Church, Buddhism has saints, censers, litanies, tonsures, holy water, fasts, and confession. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal But why does the pope have a tonsure, and all the other priests, too? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) The midnight reveller, and morning priest, At e'en the gay guitar, at noon the cowl; The holy mummer, tonsure and the missal, The world, our blessed Church, and Heav'n defied. Olla Podrida Presently, when the favourite grew up, he gave him the tonsure, dressed him up like an abbé, and dubbed him his chaplain at the age of twenty. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The coif was never, as some suppose, intended to hide the tonsure of priests practising law contrary to ecclesiastical prohibition. Old and New London Volume I The preacher might have been twenty-five or thirty years old, he had a pleasant, rosy face and heavy blonde hair below his tonsure, that fell in curls over his neck. Waterloo A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 But why does the Pope have a tonsure? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) The Pope’s heart quailed like a man’s; The cardinals froze at the sight, Bowing their tonsures hoary: And the eyes in the peacock-fans Winked at the alien glory. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV We shall hear more of the benefit of clergy; for after this the reader will not be surprised to meet with thieves in the shape of tonsured clerks, or even priests and monks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) They live on frugal meals of vegetables and fruit twice a day, have the head tonsured, and feet bare in sandals. Famous Firesides of French Canada His face was rather round than long; his hair black, yet with the promise of greyness, with what might be baldness in the crown, or a priest’s tonsure. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century In his portrait in the sacristy, by Caroto, he is represented with the tonsure and with the hood and cowl of the form which was proper to monks who were constituted "in sacris." Intarsia and Marquetry They continued therefore to practise in the Courts, and to hide their clerical identity they concealed the tonsure by covering the upper part of their heads with a black cap or coif. Law and Laughter In the Old Testament it is permitted to no priest to wear the tonsure. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained “What did your sister say to that?” asked the banker, bending forward his white, tonsured head, and smiling down the board. Dr. Sevier The operation was, indeed, of a mongrel description—somewhat between a complete tonsure and an imperfect scalping, to both of which denominations it certainly presented claims. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. I could forgive this," he touched his battered tonsure, "and all thou hast done against me and mine. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Priests in black robes and tall, cylindrical hats, and others with brown robes, rope girdles and tonsured heads, were coming and going around us. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Let those fools then go who call the institution of the priests spiritual, who yet bear no other office but just to wear the tonsure and to be anointed. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained These "gentlemen" are brought up, Christianized and moralized under your care and direction, and under that of your tonsured crew. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Since 18th July, 1870, there has been neither belief in Christ nor religious conviction among the bearers of mitres and tonsures.” Pius IX. And His Time Algar walked behind, A youth of twenty years, with tonsured head, And face, though young, forlorn. Legends of the Saxon Saints Sometimes a tonsure on the back is cut away, and among still other Negritos a considerable part of the hair is removed from the head. The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon A young Franciscan, his tonsured head a gleaming pink spot surrounded by a wreath of close-cropped black hair, stood at a tall desk beside Friar Mathieu, writing on a piece of parchment. The Saracen: The Holy War If his scalp was shaved in a clerical tonsure, his red velvet cap covered it. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel But however these various orders may differ in the colour of their cloaks or the shape of their tonsure, there is one point in which they all agree,—that is, dirt. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge “Ah! ’tis pity thou art not a man, that thou mightest have had the tonsure,” replied Lady Lisle drily. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Despite the stained snout and close-trimmed tonsure—despite both paint and shears—the dog had been also identified. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The tonsured clerk, carrying a handful of quills, a bundle of scrolls, and his ink pot, seated himself at a table in one corner of the room and began to write. The Saracen: The Holy War A shiny, tonsured scalp reflected the light from the tower window. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel No disguise of dress, nor changed tonsure, could hinder identification of the man who had partaken of his chain in the Acordada; for he it was. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Why, just look at Reinbald the Chaplain—who’d ever take him for a priest, with his long curls and his silken robes, and ruffling up his hair to hide the tonsure?” One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Pretty children, with their hair clipped around their heads like a priest's tonsure, sport around us, but are not intrusive. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 His thick reddish-brown hair fell over his forehead and ears, growing luxuriantly everywhere except for the tonsure on top, where it was just a red stubble. The Saracen: The Holy War The top of his head, shaved in a tonsure, gleamed dully in the light of the one fat candle that illuminated the corridor. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Very soon the Buddhist monastery at Yoshino, where he received the tonsure, became a rallying point for the Soga partisans, and a war for the succession seemed imminent. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era There is some difficulty in erasing his tonsure; but this difficulty with a little violence and cruelty is overcome. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Men-at-arms mumbled their offices; steel caps concealed tonsures: embrasures framed precious panes: trumpets sounded the Angelus: mail chinked beneath vestments: sallies became processions: sentinels cried "Pax vobiscum"…. Jonah and Co. The men stopped in the doorway to adjust upon their tonsured heads the kerchief worn in womanish fashion under their hats, below which fell long curls over their foreheads. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Do you deny that your being here is a menace to Miss Clairville's peace and that you—you a frocked and tonsured priest—have addressed words of love to her? Ringfield A Novel Throughout the ten years occupied in the task of collecting materials and casting this Daibutsu, the Emperor solemnly worshipped Rushana Buddha three times daily, and on its completion he took the tonsure. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era They were about to put him in a sack and throw him into the Seine, when poor Cruche, crying piteously, discovered his priestly tonsure, and thus escaped. The Story of Paris Anyhow, it is as impossible to show that the mutilation preceded the narrowing as it is to show that tonsure preceded baldness. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin The mark of his tonsure was next removed, and that with great cruelty. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The foundation of the present cathedral is attributed to Bishop Clement, originally a monk, who received the tonsure from St. Dominic himself. Chronicles of Strathearn Michikane declared his own intention of entering the "path," and on a moonlight night the two men, leaving the palace, repaired to the temple Gwangyo-ji to take the tonsure. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era But whenever the actual tonsure was performed, it seems to have been a very widely spread custom, symbolical in some way of devotion to a deity or kindred, or to some particular course of life. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay The holy fathers of the General Council of all Christendom then gravely and learnedly debated whether to use shears or a razor to remove the tonsure. John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr He was a nervous, bustling man, with an expression of acuteness, and a trick of rubbing his head with a circular motion, as if he were trying to effect a tonsure by force of friction. A Tar-Heel Baron They were to receive the tonsure, and to come under the spiritual authority of the Roman Church. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe At fifty-one, he fell seriously ill and took the tonsure by way of soliciting heaven's aid. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It has the doctrine of the Real Presence, the Madonna and Child, the invocation of the dead, monasteries and pilgrimages, celibacy and tonsure, relics, rosaries, and holy water. The Sympathy of Religions He placed me in the Academy of Arts, wound up his affairs, and retired to a remote convent, where he shortly afterwards assumed the tonsure. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Another very detestable thing has also been reported to us, that some persons being laymen, through the desire of temporal glory, are tonsured on the death of bishops, and all at once are made priests.… A Source Book for Ancient Church History They celebrated Easter upon a different date from that observed by the Roman Church and employed a different style of tonsure. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe He had to take the tonsure, surrender his post of regent and go into exile in Izu, where he died, in 1215, after a decade of obscurity. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He might have added tonsure, relics, and the confessional. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion "If they married more and drank less, I don't fancy their morals would suffer much," Madame Valtesi remarked with exceeding dryness, looking at Mr. Smith's budding tonsure through her tortoise-shell eyeglass. The Green Carnation My eyes wandered round the circle of barbarians, and I noted with some wonderment that numbers of the men wore their crowns shaven, after the manner of a priest's tonsure. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine The crown of his head, where the tonsure had been cut, was defaced; the anointed head and hands were roughly scraped, to deprive them of the sacred unction. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary He had succeeded to the position, in 1246, on the death of Tsunetoki, and he nominally abdicated in 1256, when, in the sequel of a severe illness, he took the tonsure. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Those were oblates who received the tonsure, wore a distinct costume, and pronounced the three greater vows; they led in fact a mitigated life, half layman, half monk. En Route “It is the peculiar stupidity of the tonsured skull that prevents them from seeing of how little consequence it is whether they are burned or not,” said Tito. Romola The sight of the coarse habit and the tonsured head struck a chill through me. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine The ravages of time had removed a part of her dark brown locks, and left an oval bald spot, closely resembling the tonsure of a Romish priest. In Blue Creek Cañon That the sovereign himself should take the tonsure could not fail to confer marked prestige on the Church. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The monk, as I judged from the break in his tonsure, a few scatter'd white hairs upon his temples being all that remained of it, might be about seventy—he was certainly sixty-five. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure One black mantle parted by white after another, one tonsured head after another, and still expectation was suspended. Romola Again it was Anthony of Padua in monk's cowl, barefooted, with tonsured head, a lighted torch in his hand. Peter the Priest To her high tower Ascends Queen Bramimunde, where, seeing thus The routed Arabs fly, she calls her priests And canons, subjects to false law, by God Ne'er loved: their crowns no holy tonsure wear. La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier But Go-Daigo was not moved, and finally, after repeating his admonition on several occasions, Fujifusa left the Court and took the tonsure. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The other, although in citizen's dress, he saw by the tonsure was a priest. Flamsted quarries In comparison with them, the multitude of monks seemed to be strongly distinguished individuals, in spite of the common tonsure and the common frock. Romola Every kind of priest was here; Capuchins, Jesuits, Paulists, Carmelites, White Canons, and the tonsured Franciscans, with wooden sandals on their bare feet. Peter the Priest Her enlarging pupils caught a stain of red on the bear-skin, then the scarlet tonsure on his crown. Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 He is often spoken of as Soun, the name he adopted in taking the tonsure, which step did not in any degree interfere with his secular activities. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The tonsure of his hair, the cut of his moccasins, his war-paint, enabled Carlos to tell this. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico He was a man of about sixty, with a finely-formed head, more bald than the tonsure would account for, and a remarkably soft, persuasive voice and manner. Mistress Margery "If I could only see him without his hat, I should know if he had a tonsure," and then with youthful curiosity she looked to see what picture had interested him. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient This decoration was denied the women: their hair was cropped close, with sharp crystal; some on the one side of the head only, in others like the tonsure of the priest. The History of Tasmania , Volume II From that time princes and nobles who saw no prospect of secular distinction began to take the tonsure, and this retirement to the cloister was assiduously encouraged by the Muromachi shoguns. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era I have a benefice vacant, but should dislike to see those locks of yours tonsured. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette He lavished money on the Church, whereas strongholds were required in defence of Christendom, and finally he adopted the tonsure. From a Terrace in Prague My hair, instead of being dishonoured by the tonsure, would flow down upon my neck in waving curls; I would have a fine waxed moustache; I would be a gallant.' Clarimonde 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. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts When an alert, tanned, athletic figure, neatly tonsured and barbered, at last leaped over our rail, all our sympathy vanished and gave way to jealousy. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The long journey of the exiled monks, with their strange tonsure, their holiness, their alms, their works of healing, was a veritable mission. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 As in their native country, the priests were distinguished from common mortals by a tonsure, by a linen tunic, and by their habits as well as by their garb. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Thus arose the renowned contest between the early Scottish Church and the rest of Christendom about the proper period of observing Easter, and about the form of the tonsure. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author The miniatures conform to the tale; tonsured monks bear Achilles to the grave; they carry tapers in their hands. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance The bodies of children dying before they are named, or before the tonsure ceremony is performed on them, are buried, and those of other persons are burnt. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II He studied, and travelled, and took the clerical tonsure; but discovered dispositions more suitable to the pleasures of his age than to the gravity of his profession. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 “Is this a face,” said I, communing with myself, “to be disfigured with a vile tonsure? are these limbs to be hid under the repulsive garment of a monk?” The Pacha of Many Tales He knocked, and a young man with a tonsured head but a bloated face opened it. The Armourer's Prentices There was some talk of his entering a monastery where he would have had to adopt the tonsure. Heroes of Modern Europe And, so saying, he seated himself and proceeded to remove his own head-covering, disclosing lean, ascetic features, cold, cruel, and domineering, crowned by the monk’s tonsure. The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer I took off my hat, that they might see I wore no monkish tonsure, and drank. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess This he opened, and discovered the false tonsure and friar’s gown. The Pacha of Many Tales The parting widened at the occiput to a well-kept tonsure. Brother Copas As mere tonsured undergraduates, they were not, at first, subject to regulations for daily attendance at divine service; but later founders were stricter in this, as in other matters. Life in the Medieval University Thus exhorted, Fra Battista, becomingly tonsured, delicately combed, with an aspect most meek and hands at a pretty droop, came demurely out of the friars' door into the full light of the chancel. Little Novels of Italy Although he was an archbishop he had only the first tonsure. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day With a quickened pulse I hastened to my lodgings, and throwing off my hateful gown and tonsure, dressed myself in my new attire. The Pacha of Many Tales He showed an early inclination for the ecclesiastical state, and obtained his father's consent, though not without some reluctance, for his receiving tonsure in the year 1578, and the eleventh of his age. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March All of them, on entrance, had to have the tonsure, and provision was often made for the cutting of their hair and beard. Life in the Medieval University His hooded black cassock, and the tonsure which was visible, as he had removed his cap, marked the priest. Orrain A Romance He had only a little tonsure like a simple priest. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Here he was accepted, and in a short time received the tonsure. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Francis modestly, but very firmly, refused both; yet durst not propose to his parents his design of receiving holy orders; for the tonsure was not all absolute renouncing of the world. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It was possible, though probably infrequent, for a Fellow who had not proceeded to Holy Orders to leave the College "uxore ducta," giving up his emolument, his clerical dress, and the tonsure. Life in the Medieval University The tonsured head is the common mark of membership in religious orders. Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation It formed what is known as the tonsure, then the mark of the monastic orders. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII He has assumed the tonsure, and resides there with his beautiful daughter. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan About the year 821, bidding adieu to the court, he retired from Aix-la-chapelle to Metz, where he entered himself amongst the clergy, in the bishop's seminary, and received the clerical tonsure. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Like the pileus, it may be traced back to the ecclesiastical skull-cap, the corollary of tonsure. The Customs of Old England The tonsured white head was covered by a small skull-cap of purple velvet. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 A man condemned to the tonsure could not serve as king or chieftain, but must spend the remainder of his days in seclusion as a monk. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII At eighteen he became a monk and proudly had his flaxen poll tonsured. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Gregory educated him in his monastery, and admiring his progress in learning and piety, gave him the clerical tonsure. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March At another time a cat was found tonsured, surpliced, and with a wafer in its mouth in derision of the mass. The Age of the Reformation They slept thus, and afterwards awoke in the same form, with the difference of the tonsure. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings To accomplish this he gave the king a sleeping potion, and while he was under its influence had him tonsured,—that is, had the crown of his head shaved. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII On the next day they were marked, by means of a slight tonsure on the thorax. Social Life in the Insect World That great saint, charmed with the innocence and fervor of the tender young nobleman, received him in the most affectionate manner, and gave him the monastic tonsure. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Mildred made no answer; but she thought that, in one of these cases, the tonsure was so little visible, was kept so much out of sight, that it might fail of its due precautionary influence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 He was tonsured, baptized, an alphabet was written for him, and he read his psalms in one day, as has been related to me. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings No matter how or why it was done, no man who had received the tonsure could ever again sit upon the Gothic throne. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Of fourteen marked by the tonsure two only returned. Social Life in the Insect World He must have been a priest, for I could distinguish some traces of a neglected tonsure among his brown hair. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry Their heads were shaved on the crown, the technical term for which was the tonsure. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century When they awaked and arose, not any difference appeared in their countenance; the tonsure alone distinguished the one from the other. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings When the holy man had heard Moggy's tale, he scratched his tonsure and looked, I must say, confoundedly bored. The House by the Church-Yard Like those marked with the tonsure, which had undergone no damaging operation, they proved only that their time was finished. Social Life in the Insect World And, commanding one of his rabble to hold a torch close to his head, he uncovered and showed a tonsured crown. The Black Douglas But this I noted; that he was not tonsured, and his white hair, soft and fine as Margery's, was like an aureole to the finely chiseled features. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady A set of monkish dresses, which had been provided, with all the proper apparatus of crosses, beads, tonsures, &c. often gave a variety to our appearance, and to our pursuits. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals Assured, however, that he was in Dublin, he scratched his tonsure once more. The House by the Church-Yard Nor was his appearance prepossessing—one of Froude's "tonsured peasants," as I looked down at the square shoulders, the stout, short figure and the broad beardlessness of the face of the padre. On the Church Steps Their heads were tonsured, and as they went along they fumbled at their beads and gave their benediction to the people that passed by, whether they returned them an alms or not. The Black Douglas "Blooming young ladies with a tonsure," replied Coristine, gazing on the detective's momentarily uncovered head, "are open to suspicion." Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life They claimed to have one priest without the tonsure. Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were Never Baptized With Water François was only nine years old when he received the tonsure, and fifteen when he was appointed canon of the cathedral of Evreux. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval Instead of the dark curls and face of Roxford's lord there were disclosed the tonsured head and pale features of the Abbot of Kirkstall. Beatrix of Clare Some of these, such as incense and the tonsure, may have been legacies from the Jewish and Egyptian priesthoods. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It has been said that when this tonsured Augustinian came upon the stage almost any brave man might have brought about the impending changes. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Who—we ask—is this priest without the tonsure, who daily visits the world-wide brethren? Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were Never Baptized With Water Chief among these were the date of celebrating Easter, and the uncanonical method of cutting the tonsure in a crescent instead of a circle. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain The clerical habit and tonsure were considered as evidence of the person being clerical. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Those who are indigent often avail themselves of the royal bounty, for each year a public ceremony is performed in one of the temples of Bangkok at which poor children receive the tonsure gratis. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 As Don Paolo turned away to leave the room, the artist looked curiously at the tonsure on his head, and his eyes followed it until Paolo had covered it with his hat. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster Segrave forgot his knighthood, resumed the tonsure, and took refuge in a church in Leicester. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Theodore accepted Roman orders and the Roman tonsure, and set out for his province, where he arrived after various adventures on the way. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain After giving the boy the tonsure, I put six stitches into the scalp, and he never said a word. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm He was tonsured according to the Benedictine pattern, and his lips and cheeks were clean-shaven. The King's Achievement His eyes fixed themselves upon the smooth tonsure at the back of Paolo's head, and slowly his right hand issued from his pocket with the sharp instrument firmly clenched in it. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster They are in their professional robes; their heads are bare, exhibiting the tonsure, with the hair in one large curl behind. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The light flickered on the skull of the Early Christian and the tonsure of the modern one and made comparisons. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Maybe your tonsure might save you, father," said Hakon; "but I would not risk it. A Sea Queen's Sailing As he passed before the padre, the latter reached for the crown and threw it into the well, saying, "This beseemeth little a tonsured head." Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 There was hardly a tonsure in Italy which covered more than thoughts and hopes of lust and avarice. Machiavelli, Volume I But a second glance failed to discover either litter or bier; and a nearer approach showed that the travellers, whether they wore the tonsure or not, bore weapons of one kind or another. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France They will not trouble their heads with what part of his head his hair is out from; and they will look with equal respect on a tonsure and a crop. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) He has seen priests and monks accused of heresy the one by the other; and none are so fearfully persecuted as those who wear the tonsure, if men do but suspect them of that sin. The Secret Chamber at Chad He was a young rake in Paris, tonsured for the sake of the family benefices, who had for mistress no less a lady than the Duchess de Rohan-Montbazon. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 What remained of hair on his head was raven black, but either he was bald on the crown, or carried his attention to costume so far as to adopt the priestly tonsure. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest "We seem to make it our study to recede from nature, not only in the various tonsure of greens into the most regular and formal shapes, but," etc., etc. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century He then, reviving a little, received the tonsure from the hands of the bishop, and renouncing the world, and all its cares and ambitions, devoted himself to the prayers and devotions of the monk. The Empire of Russia S. Augustine and S. Gregory Nazianzen speak of ostiarii; and the clerical tonsure is mentioned by S. Isidore at the beginning of the 5th century, as a rite established before his time. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome In seven years he effected the subjugation of the eighteen provinces, everywhere imposing the tonsure and the "pigtail" as badges of subjection. The Awakening of China He saw a man come running down the mole chased by half a dozen horsemen in yellow, a priest by the look of him; you could see the gleam of his tonsure as he plunged. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay A hundred and fifty tonsured apostles of incivism here fell in one day beneath the two-handed sword of freedom. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 It may have been his rosy rotundity, or, perhaps, the way in which his thinning hair vanished altogether at the top of his head, so as to form a tonsure. Half Portions The tonsure that they wear at the top of their heads indicates that they have renounced worldly desires. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Similarly the Druid's hair would be presented to the gods, and the tonsure would mark their minister. The Religion of the Ancient Celts As he preceded me into the drawing-room I saw a bald patch like a tonsure in the middle of a crop of coarse brown hair. Jaffery Of what does the tonsure remind the priest? Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine At this rate, a province should deem itself fortunate, and think it has escaped priestly government, if its prefect is simply tonsured. The Roman Question Did the Catholic Christians derive their monastic institutions, their bells, their rosary, their tonsure, their incense, their mitre and cope, their worship of relics, their custom of confession, etc., from the Buddhists? Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The baldness of his crown was vaguely like a tonsure. The Magician Even the tonsure is a psalm to some, and the robe and cowl a litany. Flames The tonsure is a mark of the clerical state, and in Catholic countries it is made manifest by keeping a small circular spot on the crown of the head shaved perfectly clean. Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine I cannot for the life of me see in what tonsured prelates are more laymen than they are priests. The Roman Question In the grey light that streamed through the window, his tonsure showed like a large livid spot amidst his hair; and a slight quiver, as if from cold, sped down his neck. Abbe Mouret's Transgression A monk with tonsure and cowl walks in at one window of the Priest's House, and out at another. True Irish Ghost Stories His dark hair lay in tight rings on his broad and bulging forehead, and curled in strength over his head back to the tonsure. Mount Music Dante descries among the victims tonsured polls, proving that monks themselves are not exempt from these sins. The Book of the Epic If Deacons are thus privileged, what latitude may we not claim who have not even assumed the tonsure? The Roman Question At this very hour Abbe Mouret could remember the chill of the scissors when he was marked with the tonsure at the beginning of his first year of theology. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The same notion of abstraction from the present life and its concerns is expressed by the clerical tonsure, so long known in the Christian church, and still retained among the Roman Catholics. John Rutherford, the White Chief Then, making him hold his head down, and puffing harder than ever, he cropped his thin hair, and managed to make a tolerably respectable tonsure. Saracinesca With a quickened pulse, I hastened to my lodgings, and throwing off my hateful gown and tonsure, dressed myself in my new attire. The Pacha of Many Tales The Roman prelate is often a great hulking fellow who has just left college, with the tonsure for his only sacrament. The Roman Question But the tonsure had then been very small, hardly larger than a penny. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Tom's shaven head lent itself excellently to the tonsure; and though Lord Claud objected to part with his golden tresses, he quickly manufactured himself a tonsured wig which almost defied detection. Tom Tufton's Travels With them was a priest of the old Western Church, a Cornishman, with his outlandish tonsure. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex "Is this a face," said I, communing with myself, "to be disfigured with a vile tonsure? are these limbs to be hid under the repulsive garment of a monk?" The Pacha of Many Tales Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency. balcony, n. gallery, terrace. bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere. balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge. baldness, n. alopecia. Putnam's Word Book You came and moistened his tonsure with your saliva, eh? so that his hair might grow more quickly. Abbe Mouret's Transgression For this reason he returned to Ephesus, and after having submitted to the tonsure, joined the monastic order. The Secret History of the Court of Justinian The men crop their hair in the style of the tonsure of the monk. The New North This he opened, and discovered the false tonsure and friar's gown. The Pacha of Many Tales His dress, from its colour and make, befitted his sacred profession, and his hair was so cut as to show the tonsure of the priest, so long covered by the red bonnet of the revolutionist. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Such is the pleading of Fra Lippo Lippi, the tonsured painter caught out of bounds, in that poem in which the dramatic monologue of Browning attains its perfection of life and energy. Robert Browning When I was going up to the altar to receive the tonsure, I was already terribly exercised by doubt, but I was forced onward, and I was told that it was always well to obey. Recollections of My Youth Near the carioca, or aqueduct, stood the seminary of St. Joseph, where the servants of the church received their education, adopting on their entrance the clerical habit and tonsure. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. They wear their hair short, having a kind of tonsure on their crowns, almost like monks. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time His head needed no tonsure for age had made him nearly bald. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe "Bene!" he cried; "and now for the tonsure and the frock." A Roman Singer By the emerald color of their head-fillets and jackets, as well as by their tonsure, the Master recognized them as mystics of the class known as Sufis. The Flying Legion For my hair grew thick as a mat on top and there was no time to tonsure it. Red Axe But my hair was well powdered and dressed, my white boots and gilt spurs showed below, and the cardinal was offended at what he took to be a slight on the tonsure. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Originally the clergy were forbidden to practise law, and, as they were the best lawyers, the wig was worn to conceal the tonsure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 It was covered with dingy pine trees except the top that was bared like a tonsure. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The commander examines his chart and nods to the tonsured priest who falls on his knees and raises his voice in thanksgiving. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks There were times, it is true, when I was quite hopeful of martyrdom, especially when they thought my tonsure was too small, which was their merry way of putting it. The Refugees I was made a deacon and received the tonsure. Taquisara At the end of the third year he received the tonsure and was ordained to the priesthood by the name of Sergius. Father Sergius We have as much to fear from the tonsure as from the hauberk. The White Company The light streaming through the mullioned window fell full upon the carved figure of a tonsured monk clad in a loose robe girdled with a cord. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks The crown was involved more than the sides, and in many instances the resemblance to a monk's tonsure was striking. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The venerable Egbert about this time converted the monks of Iona to the right faith, in the regulation of Easter, and the ecclesiastical tonsure. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The King rose hurriedly when the slim figure of the Prince and the broad shoulders and tonsured head of the monk appeared at the farthest end of the garden-walk. The King's Jackal If we first had performed God's command and order in the spiritual and secular estate we would find time enough to reform food, clothing, tonsures, and surplices. The Smalcald Articles A few moments later the two passed out of the door on the other side of the church, opposite the pulpit, Sarria adjusting a silk skull cap on his tonsured head. The Octopus : A story of California All undergo the same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on the same straw, die on the same ashes. Les Misérables He received the tonsure and the minor orders at the age of seventeen. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 He knocked, and a young man with a tonsured head but a bloated face opened it. The Armourer's Prentices This holiness does not consist in albs, tonsures, long gowns, and other of their ceremonies devised by them beyond Holy Scripture, but in the Word of God and true faith. The Smalcald Articles It's only a very little bald spot, really, and Rachel Guest says it reminds her of a tonsure on the head of a fine-looking monk. It Happened in Egypt Mr. Calendar was furthermore possessed of a polished bald spot, girdled with a tonsure of silvered hair—circumstances which lent some factitious distinction to a personality otherwise commonplace. The Black Bag Thou hast not hair enough to protect it, and thy tonsure shall not. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 His delicate gold-patterned vestments, his tonsured head, and the monstrance in his hands, tormented the curate's eyes every Sunday as he began, robed in his black Genevan gown, to read the Commandments. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II The Jesuit laid aside his hat, revealing the tonsure gleaming whitely amidst his jetty hair, and helped to lay the mattress upon the table. The Slave of the Lamp Bishops—York, London, Chichester, Westminster— Ye haled this tonsured devil into your courts; But since your canon will not let you take Life for a life, ye but degraded him Where I had hang'd him. Becket and other plays Yes!—as the form came nearer to the window, seen from the back, Lucy perceived distinctly the tonsured head and the soutane. Eleanor A set of monkish dresses, which had been provided, with all the proper apparatus of crosses, beads, tonsures, etc., often gave a variety to our appearance, and to our pursuits. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 He is the type of a Southerner; he has a hooked nose, a long head, tonsured, a narrow forehead, thick lips, a heavy beard, a strong neck, and small chubby hands. Cæsar or Nothing The only lamp in the room, which was long and narrow, stood on the table before him, so that the light of it was reflected from his sleek black head disfigured by a tiny tonsure. The Slave of the Lamp He sat down there And dropt it in his hands, and then a paleness, Like the wan twilight after sunset, crept Up even to the tonsure, and he groan'd, 'False to myself! Becket and other plays As the sky was hot, all the feathers on the top of his head were burned off; and ever since, the culing has had a tonsure. Filipino Popular Tales When a few years old the little creature's hair is allowed to grow except at the top of the head, where a large tonsure is maintained. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Their monks shaved the front of the head from ear to ear as a tonsure, while Roman monks shaved the top of the head, leaving a "crown of thorns." Early European History He let his head fall so low upon his breast that she could see the sacerdotal tonsure. A Foregone Conclusion That's a delicate Latin lay Of Walter Map: the lady holds the cleric Lovelier than any soldier, his poor tonsure A crown of Empire. Becket and other plays After the tonsured filth we've been accustomed to call a world, all this strikes one as unnatural and extraordinary. The Glory of the Trenches Few days gone byI sent the boy with poems to the kings;He loves me: hardly will he leave the songsTo wear thy tonsure!’ The Legends of Saint Patrick Don't let him come here," cried the Major, "or I'll let him know what tonsure is, and read him the order of Melchisedec. Erema — My Father's Sin Don Ippolito's prevailing tint was that transparent blueishness which comes from much shaving of a heavy black beard; his forehead and temples were marble white; he had a tonsure the size of a dollar. A Foregone Conclusion For the tonsured priest, and the monastery, and the nunnery, and the mass, and the Virgin Mary, have grown to be a very great power indeed in English lanes. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Their tonsure is made in form of a cross. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Beyond its tonsure fringe,Birch trees and oaks, there pushed a thorn milk-white,And close beside it slept in shade a fawnWhiter. The Legends of Saint Patrick V. call, ordain, induct, prefer, translate, consecrate, present. take orders, take the tonsure, take the veil, take vows. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Padre Sibyla rubbed his hand over his tonsure in sign of impatience. The Reign of Greed My neighbour owns the crown of the hill which he has shorn until it resembles the tonsured pate of a monk. Adventures in Contentment The men have a square tonsure on their crowns, from the two front corners of which they shave two seams down to their temples. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Some are to be found who have never made a public profession of their faith and zeal, have naver assumed the tonsure, or taken the vows. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers This is no shameless priest, like so many that disgrace the tonsure. The Bravo Cowls and the tonsure do not make a friar; Nor make a king wide realms and pompous wars; But he who is all Jesus, Pallas, Mars, Though he be slave or base-born, wears the tiar. Sonnets So Photinius received the tonsure and the dignity, and made a very tolerable Abbot. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales When they slipped back their hoods it was seen that two of the men wore the "tartar tonsure," after the fashion of the coast. The Magnetic North O'Hara rose to stand by a hearth, black-robed to the heels and tonsured, and at the angle of his jaw some sinews ribbed and moved: not a syllable now from him. The Lord of the Sea The tonsure was still visible to any who sought it; for it was but half-grown over. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories As they began to descend the height, a bevy of friars succeeded them, their round faces and tonsured crowns glistening in ruddy contrast with their black habits. The Prince of India — Volume 02 "By the assistance of our Lord," says the pious Latin chronicler, "the monks were brought to the canonical observation of Easter, and the right mode of the tonsure." General History for Colleges and High Schools You have not been named a god, Deliverer, nor has yonder Bald-pate"—the natives called Francisco thus because of his tonsure—"and your black dog will betray you by his yapping. The People of the Mist This serious, sober young priest, freshly tonsured, took the pamphlet to his garret and read it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers A small black cap concealed his tonsure, and his long gray hair floated on the collar of his maroon-colored coat. Mysteries of Paris, V3 Certainly, at any rate, there is more intellect in it than under all the monkish tonsures it has seen coming and going these three hundred years. Italian Hours They were to be seen among the tradesmen and suitors who crowded the levees of the great, distinguishable in the throng by their black clothes, and a very small tonsure. The Eve of the French Revolution He had been sent thither by his mother, a pious lady, in the hope that, as he is of a very gentle nature, he would attach himself to the sacred tonsure. The Scottish Chiefs He resolved to eliminate the tonsure and dress in citizens' clothes. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers He made a strange lean figure of a man with his knee-breeches and dingy purple stockings, his grey flannel shirt, and the moonlight shining on his tonsured head. In Kedar's Tents The top of the head was quite bald, like the tonsure of a priest, and shone and glistened in the lamplight, and round this oasis the thin white locks fell down. Jess Then he had silky-soft smooth white hair, and, topping the occiput, a tonsure that might have passed for a natural bald spot. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box He was under no vows; he had, indeed, received the tonsure, but was otherwise unpledged, and he was bent on proving all things. The Chaplet of Pearls It is a man in a crimson garment lined with white, and not tonsured. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 He was bald only on the top of his head, like a tonsured monk, with a crop of short, curly hair, golden and shiny, around this circle of bare flesh. Mademoiselle Fifi "How shall I cut your hair, sir?" once asked the court tonsure of King Archeläus of Macedon. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Nothing can be uglier than such tonsure, and it is contrary to the strict law of the Apostle, who ordered a clean shave, or a general growth of the hair. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 They quaintly describe, in exquisite delicacy of form and colour, how the young Guthlac, after taking leave of his parents, renounces the profession of arms, and receives the tonsure at the hands of Bishop Hedda. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries His hair was very sparse; he looked, indeed, like one who has received the tonsure. The Nether World A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar's horns, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of kidneys of wheat. Ulysses "But you have not told us, marquis, how the fanaticism of your brother liberated you from the tonsure?" said the king. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Apollyon had a just discernible tonsure, but probably no right to it. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays His hair and his beard had been allowed to grow; his tonsure had entirely disappeared, and his sedentary life had caused him to become much stouter. The Honor of the Name I shaved my head, so that the tonsure was no longer visible. The Garden of Allah The hair, cut shorter on the top of his skull, still indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure. Five Weeks in a Balloon Handsome still with hood and tonsure, E'en as when the boy Pedrillo, Insolent with youth and beauty, Who reviled the gentle Rabbi. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations The last drops of the blood of Hyacinth still trickled through the thick masses of dark hair, where the tonsure had been. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays The son of a poor farmer in the environs of Montaignac, he owed his Latin and tonsure to the privations of his family. The Honor of the Name It is hardly necessary to mention that, although already Bishop of Pampeluna and Archbishop of Valencia, he had received so far only his first tonsure. The Life of Cesare Borgia Slowly he shook his huge head with its absurd fringe of greasy locks about the tonsured scalp—that symbol of the Crown of Thorns. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza "By the Saints! you'll be tonsured next, and ill enough it would suit you," she exclaimed. The Wanderer's Necklace It is meet now that you wear a tonsure that you who are no longer a centurion should forget these 'Come, and he cometh,' ways. Red Eve He had the figure and the tonsured head. The Sleuth of St. James's Square It was the face of Godwin, and on his head was the tonsure of a monk. The Brethren They were both tall men, and they stood with their cowls over their tonsures, in the conventual attitude, their hands tucked away into the ample sleeves of their brown habits. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Remember, if things grow too—difficult, you can always be tonsured, Olaf. The Wanderer's Necklace In fact, my curled and tonsured figure seemed to me to look far worse than it had done before. Youth He had the massive features and the fringe of hair around his bald head like a tonsure. The Sleuth of St. James's Square The eager court sat with their tonsured heads together, keen to seize every weak point. Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death This proved too much for one of the faithful tonsured dependents of the place, and he ventured to expostulate with his master. Eminent Victorians Be more cheerful, I pray you, or I will have you tonsured and promoted to be a bishop, like that old heretic Barnabas of whom you are so fond. The Wanderer's Necklace "I am as bare of coin as a friar's tonsure of hair." The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Staines directed him where to begin; and when he had made a circular tonsure on the top of the head, had it sponged with tepid water. A Simpleton His tonsure was cut in four directions, and a fool's cap, a yard high, with a picture of devils tearing his soul, was placed upon that hero's head. A History of the Moravian Church The Vidame's hand flashed up above the priest's head, and the cross-hilt of his sheathed sword crashed down with awful force, and still more awful passion, on the other's tonsure! The House of the Wolf; a romance Smuggled from the city disguised as a boy attending on a priest, and that priest her father shorn of his beard and tonsured. The Wanderer's Necklace Though he were shorn full high upon his pan: though he were tonsured, as the clergy are. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems And I, who had my heart well-nigh pierced through, said, "My Master, now declare to me what folk is this, and if all these tonsured ones on our left were clerks." Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell As the two men walked home, the friend threatened to reveal the lover’s secret—his tonsure—which would be fatal to his hopes. Adventures Among Books Well, a man can be a priest without the tonsure; all priests are not in orders. The Brotherhood of Consolation The speaker was a man of sixty, short, stout, tonsured by the hand of time. New Grub Street That have their top full high and smooth y-shore: that are eminent among the clergy, who wear the tonsure. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems The grey suit was an effectual disguise to his calling, and so jealous was he of the Church's honour that he never—unless in his cups—disclosed his tonsure. A Book of Scoundrels Good sirs, let us see your reverend tonsures.” A Monk of Fife He admitted Morales into minor orders, gave him the tonsure, and thus, having placed him above the temporal power, enabled him to brave the Governor openly. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 Men, therefore, who were averse to the life of camps, and who were, at the same time, desirous to rise in the state, commonly received the tonsure. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Nevertheless, in spite of the tonsure imposed by the will of the father, she was determined that Etienne's education should not be wholly ecclesiastical, and took pains to secularize it. The Hated Son His back was turned, and nothing visible but his tonsure. The Cloister and the Hearth He is a big man, with a mass of thick brown shaggy hair, so thick that the little bald patch on the top of his head seems like an artificial tonsure. Russia in 1919 We see King perhaps laid aside; not tonsured, tonsuring is out of fashion now; but say, sent away any whither, with handsome annual allowance, and stock of smith-tools. The French Revolution He is a priest," said Bragelonne, "he has worn the tonsure. Twenty Years After That tonsure, being all she saw, contradicted the tone effectually. The Cloister and the Hearth This had changed him even more than his tonsure, his short hair sprinkled with premature grey, and his cheeks thinned and paled by fasts and vigils. The Cloister and the Hearth |
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