Who, for instance, that has traced the history of that apostolic ordinance, "the kiss of peace," down through the liturgical changes and revolutions of eighteen hundred years, can fail to be interested in finding in a single clause of one of the exhortations of our communion service that which corresponds to the literal kiss of primitive times, as well as to the petrified symbol of the original reality, the silver, ivory, or wooden "Osculatory" of the mediaeval Church?
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
Delicate Osculatory explosions and pretty exclamations in the hall!
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
But up to that time we had kept the Osculatory incident a profound secret.
"More Tish"
Mary Roberts Rinehart