1857, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 Chapter , He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.
1915, w, The Research Magnificent Chapter , When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.
1891, w, The White Lady of Hazelwood Chapter , Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.
