Word: sanctus
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...nocte iterabunt. Primas partes qui agunt, eis omnibus prisca festivitas ct vis comica. Quorum sunt cum primis nominandi hi duces: illa Magna Mater semper potens semper tranquilla, Thais (Paludis Filum nobile!) et illa cuius nomen perdurum Latine reddere nequeo nympha, Abigail Lewis, comoeda gracilitatis venustac ct aurcac vocis; tunc Sanctus Clarus ct Vadum Fractum et ipse cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive ebrius. Nec non omittendi sunt tu, edax Rolande, nec vos, ancillac pellaces, nec vos, sodales quibus...
...were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
...just been informed that the Holy Grail, the very chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, sits at that very moment in his own parish church at Fardles. The archdeacon rushes home and hides the battered old cup in a cupboard, but almost before he can say Sanctus he is conked cold, and the Grail is hijacked by one of the Devil's disciples...
...injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...
...opening Palestrina works, a Sanctus for high and a Supplicationes for low voices were, perhaps, the best of the sacred offerings. The Radcliffe group has mellowed in the past year, although an absence of really first-rate soprano voices is still evident in the lovely Sanctus. Singing the Supplicationes with fine balance and diction, the low voices sacrificed some precision as Professor Woodworth wisely kept to the earnest simplicity of this work...