First came the worldly, ostentatious popes of the Renascence, those who resuscitated antiquity with so much passion and dreamt of draping the Holy See with the purple of empire once more.
Over the old ruddy masonry, stripped of its pompous marble covering, is the purple mantle of the sunlight, draping the whole with imperial glory once more.
I drew aside the curtain draping one of the after ports, and glanced out, eager for anything to distract attention.
A cord from the portière curtain draping the bathroom entrance completed his lashings.
And there he is still in his cage for you all to see," and Deleah leant back in her chair, and threw her pretty head over her shoulder to look at the canary hanging above the left-hand window where was her favourite seat.
Thank you, Mr. Gibbon, I've got three pieces of bread already, look!
And there, in the shadow of a heavy curtain draping it, stood a little girl.
For expedition, too, he had caught up his feminine skirt and petticoat and twisted them and caught them about his waist with a leathern belt, over which they hung in careless indecorous festoons, draping a pair of corduroy breeches.
Behind them the sea of sage still ran off to distant mountains, but the sunset glow washed its dust away, draping the land in a royal robe.
In place of the bougainvillea drapingall with purple clusters, a shriveled black lace hung around the windows that stared with fiery eyes from blackened walls.
With its bougainvillea draping walls and porches in rich purple clusters, its pretty patio and outside kitchen garden, it was just such a home as would fit the dreams of a common man.
One day she had been wrapping some green and gold gauzes about her, and draping herself so that you could think of nothing but sunsets and tulip-beds, when, in pulling over her finery, she came across a miniature of herself.
Much of the time she passed in drapingherself in various finery before the mirror, and trying the effects of color on her complexion.
Mrs. Shongut made a great show of dragging the room's furniture back into place; unpinning the lace curtains and draping them carefully in their folds; drawing chairs across the carpet until the casters squealed; uncovering the piano.
And, draping himself across the white-goods counter in an attitude as intricate as the letter S, behold Mr. Charley Chubb!
I wish that a few sensible, intelligent, wealthy people would cease draping and festooning themselves like engine-houses, when a death occurs in the family.
They could see Burra Moti upon her bended legs on the marble-slabbed terrace, a rich cloth, sparkling with jewels, draping her head and neck and body.
As Finnerty and Swinton went by a jungle path up the hill, the oncoming night was draping the forest with heavy gloom.
Draping the skin-covered bones was a loin cloth and a thread that hung diagonally from one shoulder to the waist.
I get thirty shillings a week for draping and the wife of the boss wants to keep on friendly terms with Mrs. Stratton and I'm a good hand, so I can organise without being victimised for it.
It only hung there amid the dark draping of its poor stock and waited.
She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place.
Now he went across the ice to the box with its draping of collapsed parachute.
Lee Renaud, spider webs draping his black hair and the dust of ages prickling at his nose, persisted in his efforts to clear this strange mechanism of its weight of junk.
Every spring and summer that have passed over those mouldering columns and shattered arches have left behind them their tribute of clasping creeper and clambering wild flower and softly draping moss.
Gold sparkles, jewels emit light, the purpledraping imprisons within its rich folds the radiance of the lustres.
Of late the Ampelopsis has taken it into its especial cherishing, draping it with a close green luxuriance that can scarcely be matched elsewhere.
They covered the sides of the butte, from base to middle height, with a draping perfectly impenetrable to the eye.
These, drapingthe roughly-hewn logs, rob them to some extent of their rigidity.
Even their hands and arms are not visible: buffalo-robes and blankets hang over, draping the wheels from our view.
The draping had been removed; and a closer scrutiny enabled me to perceive, that, so far as human occupants were concerned, the house was empty!
Quickly the draping was coaxed into shape and firmly held with pins.
Holwerda, in an article in the Jahrbuch for 1904, gives some drawings of some practical experiments he has made in draping a model in a garment of this kind.
I must also thank Herr Fritz Röhrig, the German sculptor, who placed his studio in Athens at my disposal, and procured a model for me, for the purpose of making my first experiments in reproducing the archaic style of draping the himation.
I suppose not," I admitted, glancing yet again at the still vacant doorway by the foot of the stairs, which now the twilight was draping in mysterious shadows.
Let no one be afraid of draping the spirit with this purple and gold.
The very tight fashion of draping skirts should make all women very careful as to the way they sit down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
