Chapel Service

So responsible an official could not be satisfied with seeing the nuns together, or witnessing their earliest chapel-service; he must enter every room, survey every cranny, and leave no possibility of deception, no corner for concealment. ❋ Various (N/A)

And there, with father's concealed mint julep right against his interlaced fingers, the mountain lion bowed his crested head and involved me in prayer for the first time since chapel-service in my college days. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)

They also read the Lessons in Chapel on week days: but as there was no daily chapel-service during the summer vacation, I had not much of this. ❋ Airy, George Biddell, Sir (1896)

Even the chapel-service has been brightened up for their behoof. ❋ Charles Maurice Davies (1869)

During his lifetime Richelieu had given to the crown "my grand hotel, which I built, and called Palais-de-Cardinal, my chapel (or chapel-service) of gold, enriched with diamonds, my grand buffet of chased silver, and a large diamond that I bought of Lopez." ❋ Unknown (1830)

The last day at Harton came; the last chapel-service in that fair school fabric; the last sermon, "Arise, let us go hence;" the last look at the churchyard and the fourth-form room; the last "Speecher," and delivering up of the monitor's keys; the last farewells to Mr Carden and the other masters, and the Doctor, and their schoolfellows and fags; and then with swelling hearts Julian and Lillyston got into the special train, thronged with its laughing and noisy passengers, and during the twenty minutes which were occupied by their transit to London, were filled with the melancholy thought that the days of boyhood were over for ever. ❋ Unknown (1867)