1. His black cassock was dusty and sweat - stained.

2. The priest's cassock was stained with vomit and blood.

3. His cassock came up over his socks.

4. Corrigan lifted his cassock at the knees.

5. Roused, the Monsignor hiked the skirt of his voluminous cassock and lumbered up to the podium.

6. Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.

7. On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.

8. Sophia could imagine them in cassocks, doing something with candles or incense.