altar-rails

On Palm Sunday of that year, 1212, she came to the cathedral of Assisi for the blessing of palms, but when the others went up to the altar-rails to receive their branch of green, a sudden shyness kept Clare back.

Archive 2008-08-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008

On Palm Sunday of that year, 1212, she came to the cathedral of Assisi for the blessing of palms, but when the others went up to the altar-rails to receive their branch of green, a sudden shyness kept Clare back.

SAINT CLARE, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE POOR CLARES 1193-1253 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Within the altar-rails was the effigy of the Esmond of the time of King James the First, the common forefather of all the group assembled in the family pew.

The Virginians 2006

“It will come right somehow,” he thought, and went towards the altar-rails.

Anna Karenina 2003

The priest, a little old man with a scanty grizzled beard and weary, good-natured eyes, was standing at the altar-rails, turning over the pages of a missal.

Anna Karenina 2003

The visitor had the privilege of worshipping on a Sunday in the same parish church where his ancestors, holding the right of presentation, had joined in the same form of service, to whose font they had brought their children in baptism, and at whose altar-rails they had stood for "the solemnization of matrimony," and knelt in the office of communion.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

On the other hand, Miss GLADYS COOPER, as _Rosalie_, his late wife, was untroubled by high sentiment; she was content to be wayward and unseizable, confident in the obvious power of her charm to retrieve him from the very altar-rails.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 Various

The ceremony is apt to be performed in the country at a pretty little church, which lends its altar-rails gracefully to wreaths, and whose Gothic windows open upon green lawns and trim gardens.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Its distance from the altar-rails, and the pane of glass which covers it, prevent one's seeing it very well.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The demolished Brattle Street Church in Boston was not the only one of our sacred edifices to be wounded by cannonballs, for the exigences of the fight more than once, during the Revolution and the civil war, brought flame and destruction within the altar-rails of churches North and South.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various