Organ, orchestra, and ringing voices burst into triumphant melody, the vestibule doors fly open, and, headed by the crucifer and his sacred emblem, the white surpliced choristers come thronging up the centre aisle, while the whole congregation turns and faces them, as wedding congregations will, and the lofty rafters ring with the exultant strains,- "Hark!
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
He was said to have asked permission of the pope, that a crucifer should precede him in processions.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
In such instances we must figure to ourselves the cells of the root of the crucifer handing on food-materials to both masses of protoplasm-that of the Plasmodiophora and that of the cell into which it penetrates; and it is immaterial whether both obtain the food-materials directly, or, what seems more likely, the fungus only at second hand and by the medium of the host's protoplasm.
"Disease in Plants"
H. Marshall Ward