choir-boys

Somehow, as he pondered and watched her, it seemed as if he sat in church at home listening to the choir-boys chanting.

Chapter 10 2010

Did they promise him a lifetime supply of pliant choir-boys for his deviant sexual practices?

Think Progress » Stupak dismisses nuns’ letter: I don’t listen to them, I listen to ‘leading bishops’ and Focus on the Family. 2010

He went to the cathedral durin 'service, an' took in the priests and choir-boys in their surplices, -- _parkas_, he called 'em, -- an 'watched the burnin' of the holy incense.

CHAPTER 16 2010

When Steve flippantly points out to an excited Catholic priest that while some members of the Church have been trying to get people to listen, others have been "shagging choir-boys," the priest angrily retorts "every day someone is laughing at us, every day someone tears us down, and you're doing the same."

Archive 2006-07-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

When Steve flippantly points out to an excited Catholic priest that while some members of the Church have been trying to get people to listen, others have been "shagging choir-boys," the priest angrily retorts "every day someone is laughing at us, every day someone tears us down, and you're doing the same."

The Second Coming Abigail Nussbaum 2006

The esthetic emotion is not denied you; the organ-tide that floods the place bears you on it, too; the priests perform their rites before the altar for you; they come and go, they bow and kneel, for you; the censer swings and smokes for you; the little wicked-eyed choir-boys and mischievous-looking acolytes suppress their natures in your behalf as much as if you were a believer, or perhaps more.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

But again it is well to be on the safe side; and choir-boys, who are selected because they have good vocal organs, and who are drilled far more than school children, are hardly a criterion to go by.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

His other guest was a Minor Canon who had just been appointed to instruct and train the choir-boys of the cathedral.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

There was another fervent prayer in low, pleading tones, after which followed the recessional, the choir-boys chanting their solemn measures.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

[Music: c '' '] and although that is a pretty altitudinous pitch, there are very few choir-boys who, when taught to breathe properly, etc., will not take it occasionally with perfect ease.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard