altar-rail

And there were two little spruce trees, one at each end of the altar-rail, with their cones all on.

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

How beautiful it looked, showing above the evergreens covering the altar-rail!

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

We went on tiptoe towards the altar-rail, and knelt upon the topmost step.

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

Hanging from the altar-rail, directly before the statue of Our Lady, was Joe's handsomest May-basket, just as he knew it would be; for he had fastened it there himself the first thing in the morning.

Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

In his earnest pleading his voice would rise from a conversational tone until it rang penetratingly through the hall, and he would emphasize his words with a startling resound from his open palm upon the altar-rail.

Sergeant York And His People

Just before his death, while leaning on the altar-rail, he said to his followers:

The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude Toward Life and Death G. R. Wilson 1923

It awaited Gaetano's coming to carve the choir chairs, the altar-rail, the pulpit, the lectern, and the shrine.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

On Palm Sunday Clare, arrayed in all her finery, attended high Mass at the cathedral, but when the others pressed forward to the altar-rail to receive a branch of palm, she remained in her place as if rapt in a dream.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The offering was voluntarily, and each one brought what he had to give to the altar-rail.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Later on, about the fifteenth century the practice was introduced of receiving Holy Communion kneeling, and so the altar-rail gradually came to assume a form better suited to its modern use, and like what it is at present

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913