versicles

• Appeal for help The eight versicles which follow next are addressed to Christ, and in most editions of the Prayer Book are separated by a small space from the Verse and Respond Priest_. —  The Prayer Book Explained
• As we do put, &c These eight versicles were, even in 1544, distinguished from those two, although they were then all marked to be said responsorially. —  The Prayer Book Explained
• The mournful tone bore you down irresistibly; Mark Tapley would have subsided into melancholy gloom, before the slow versicles were half dragged through. —  Border and Bastille
• Here follow some versicles, which I made one sleepless night I read the 'Christabel Very well I read the 'Missionary Pretty--very I tried at 'Ilderim Ahem I read a sheet of 'Marg'ret of Anjou Can you I turn'd a page of * *'s 'Waterloo Pooh! —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• Professor Child, of Harvard, is publishing a beautiful critical collection of English Volkslieder, with all known variants from every country A comparison of the collections proves that among all European lands the primitive 'versicles' of the people are identical in tone, form, and incident. —  Custom and Myth

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