The introduction of the biretta in the 15th century tended to replace the use of the almuce as a head-covering, and the hood now became smaller, while the cape was enlarged till in some cases it fell below the elbows.   anvd [Please select]

The priest came out with his purple velvet biretta on his head, adjusted his hair, and knelt down with an effort.   anvd [Please select]

The afternoons we spent at home in the garden, where the Chaplain, in his black soutane and biretta, was always sitting under the old tree, reading his breviary.   anvd [Please select]

He came down hurriedly, just as he was, in his worn and discoloured cassock and biretta, and walked up the road by my side, breathing rapidly and obviously much agitated.   anvd [Please select]

Except that he wore a biretta he was dressed--as in Rome--in his long black soutane with its innumerable buttons, his silver-buckled shoes, his heavy gold chain and jewelled cross.   anvd [Please select]

Robed in his archiepiscopal vestments, his rochet, his girdle, and his mozzetta, with the scarlet biretta on his head, and the pectoral cross upon his breast, he made his solemn Profession of Faith in the Holy Roman Church.   anvd [Please select]

And at that instant, to cap the situation, a rotund little man with a round face under a linen biretta grasped Nick by the hand, and cried in painful but sincere English:-- "Monsieur, you mek my daughter ver' happy."'   anvd [Please select]

Entering a large room on the ground floor, they first came upon John Storm, in cassock and biretta, standing at the door and shaking hands with everybody who came in and went out.   anvd [Please select]

The black cassock and biretta in which he had lately preached were nowhere to be seen, and a murmur of disappointment passed over friends and enemies alike.   anvd [Please select]