All the visitors rose, and, bearing each a taper, passed in single file into a narrow, dark passage faintly illuminated with sickly green lights, the young man in clerical garb acting as pilot.
A pair of gold-bowed eyeglasses dangled at the end of a silken cord looped about his collar; the cut and texture of his black garb indicated prosperity as well as solid respectability.
His garb was quiet; there was an utter absence of vociferous jewelry.
Out of faces pale as death the craven grooms looked on, to behold me reclining there, my cloak flung down across my legs to hide my boots, and my motley garb of red and black and yellow all revealed.
Why, this garb of motley that you donned the better to fool my pursuers and that you still wear in my poor service.
I would not again defile myself by the garb of folly; not again would I incur the shame of playing the Fool for the amusement of others.
The vintage season came and went; the roses faded in the gardens of the Palazzo Sforza, and the trees put on their autumn garb of gold.
Let him be stripped for ever of that hideous garb he wears, and let him be treated, hereafter, with the dignity his high gifts deserve.
There were times when conscience knocked loudly at my heart, and I was tortured with shame to see myself in the garb of Fools, the sport of all, from prince to scullion.
All are alike surprised at men there, mounted or afoot; more especially white men, as by their garb they must be.
But first for their lair, where the spoil is to be partitioned, and a change made in their toilet; there to cast off the costume of the savage, and resume the garb of civilisation.
In garb he is Indian, from the mocassins on his feet to the fillet of stained feathers surmounting his head.
Arrayed in the garbof a laundress, she would still look the lady.
Instead, they are all white men, and wearing the garb of civilisation; though scarce two are costumed alike.
The woman wore the garb of Mexican rancheros; as for the man, he was a vaquero.
It was a glorious morning, mild and sunny as an April day, as though Nature took a hand in the Dowager's triumph and wished to make the best of its wintry garb in honour of it.
Illustration: 071] Above a chimney is still to be seen the portrait of a princess in the garb of a goddess.
I have often since seen this strange garb of the mountains, especially towards evening; the bluish atmosphere enclosed in the gorges becomes visible; it grows thick, it imprisons the light and makes it palpable.
Stephen looked round and saw a man close beside him in what he knew at once to be the garb of a jester.
The long-looked-for time was now at hand, when the hoary garb of winter being laid aside, the world clad in vernal bloom, invited the pilgrims to the confines of the East.
She had entered the dark cloister, and conducted Cicely from her weary vigil beside the holy relics, to wreathe her dark locks with jewels and gold, and array her fair form for the last time in the garb of a princess.
Those men on foot, in the garb of friars, how wearily they follow, leaning upon their long staves.
The garb of the pilgrim had consequently become to her a familiar sight, and it was therefore without surprise that she saw her attendant enter with a toil-worn man leaning upon a palmer's staff.
In the simple garbof a country knight, he had often sought admittance to the ancient seat of the Cliffords, and the nunnery of Godstowe, but without success.
This terrible mandate at once covered the whole nation with the garb and the gloom of mourning.
Dismounting from his horse, he exchanged the garb of the king for that of a penitent, and walked barefoot towards the city, so cruelly cutting his feet with the stones that every step was marked with blood.
II Clad in his garb of gold, Bright as he shone of old; Beams o'er the heavens extend, Shafts from his orb descend.
II "Who is this in garb of light, Come to chase our night away?
Never before this time was a set of literary men converted into a gang of robbers and assassins; never before did a den of bravoes and banditti assume the garb and tone of an academy of philosophers.
To the enormity of donning the male garb they added the hardihood of choosing for the color of their trousers a bright sulphur-yellow.
I sent my cicerone, who was also my servant, to tell the girl in the garb of an officer that I would give her ten sequins for an hour's conversation.
Besides, I was thinking of returning to Venice, and felt great delight at the idea of shewing myself there in the garb of honour, for I had been rather ill-treated in that of religion.
I have resolved to throw off the garb which could not procure me a fortune likely to satisfy my ambition.
I could put up with an insult when I wore the livery of humility, but I cannot bear one now that I wear the garb of honour.
It was a very natural fancy at my age, for I had just passed through two armies in which I had seen no respect paid to any garb but to the military uniform, and I did not see why I should not cause myself to be respected likewise.
On the marble couch within are stretched two figures, carved in stone and drest in the antique garb of the Middle Ages.
The Freemasons of Europe generally regard him as one of them--his portrait in masonic garb is often displayed; yet he was not one of that brotherhood.
Then followed a warlock of demoniac shape, who was succeeded by another warlock drawing a car, on which was seated the figure of a witch, surrounded by other figures in the garb of demons.
If, as thy garb suggests, thou comest from afar, perchance the friendly greeting, even of one who in his native city is still himself a pilgrim, may not be unwelcome.
She was a member of the Church of the Brethren and wore the quaint garb adopted by the women of that sect.
Phares, I'll tell you frankly, if I ever wear plain garb it will be because I feel that it is the right thing for me to do, not because some person persuades me to.
If ever the little town puts on royal garb it is on the Feast of Roses Sabbath.
He wore a broad-brimmed hat with the garbof a hunter.
The old Russian Greek church stood there just as it did a hundred years before, with the exception of a new coat of paint, and the priests were in their church garb as of yore.
A little cream-colored butterfly just out of its winter garb is on the wing, floating gracefully in the air among the leafless trees.
Such things happened almost every day while we were in Russia, and for a native woman to adopt the garb of a soldier was by no means an uncommon thing.
The prudence of the step we had taken in assuming the garb of the Cossacks was now justified by the event.
Other sources of information depict his exterior habits and outer garb and deportment; but in these legends and myths, we perceive the interior man, and are made cognizant of the secret workings of his mind, and heart, and soul.
Inca, thy warfare here is done, Each bitter scene or tender, Go to thy sire, the shining Sun, In kinglygarb and splendor.
She stood there waiting for him, clad in misty white, like the moonbeams, yet the byssus of her garb was no whiter than was the throat that rose from the faultless trunk of her body, no whiter than her wonderful hands and arms.
His garb is responsible for much," replied the Circassian.
No more the elegant courtier that wooed Theodora ere despair drove you to don the penitentialgarb and, like Balaam's ass, to raise your voice and prophesy!
There was something strangely fascinating in the mystery that surrounded him, there was even a wild thrill of pleasure in the seeming shame of loving one whose garb stamped him as one claimed by the Church.
I do not understand--" She loosened the roses from her hair and garb before she made reply.
He was unconscious, but faintly breathing, and upon his garb were strange stains, that looked like blood.
His jaded horse and dusky garb justified this conjecture.
Their drawers, which supply the place of trousers, are very wide, and remind one of the national garb of the Hungarian peasants.
He has arrayed himself in the red-and-white striped garb of the proletariat, is trying his best to look a Revolutionary, though all he gets for it are kicks and wallops!
Enormous black brows and heavy moustache accentuated his ferocity, the particolored Revolutionary garb and in particular the red-and-white striped pantaloons gave him a bizarre appearance like a pirate chief.
Having done this they tore off his cassock and clothed him in the garb of a savage.
The month of May, 1752, had again decked nature in its garb of green.
