And after he had offered his sons, he vested them with linen tunicks, and girded them with girdles: and put mitres on them as the Lord had commanded.
Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty: 28:41.
They shall have linen mitreson their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.
And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen: 39:27.
To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance.
One of the bowls, supported by two figures wearing mitresand dressed in robes with broad borders, with one hand upbearing the handle and with the other the foot, amazed by its huge size and the perfection and finish of the ornamentation.
Then came the troops of the allies, easily known by the barbarous shape of their helmets, like mitres cut off, or else surmounted with a crescent stuck on a point.
First came the priests, with mitres on their heads, and clothed in long lace robes.
The archdeacon, on perceiving these wan spots all around the choir, thought he beheld the mitres of damned bishops.
An excellent plan is to make saw-kerfs formitres in the cleat of a bench-hook (Fig.
A sawed mitre holds glue better than a planed mitre, but sawed mitres often require trimming with the plane to get a perfect fit.
An occasional dark piece introduced among wiped work tends to relieve the sameness and looks more like the hardwoods; it also gives a better opportunity (where a job is not to be overgrained) to make distinct mitres and joints.
Care should be taken to have all the mitres and joints cleanly cut, and slightly to vary the color of the different portions of the work, so as to avoid sameness.
His holiness refused his other presents, but thankfully accepted of the mitres and sandals, being charmed with their exquisite beauty.
At the recent Coronation, mitres were not worn; which they undoubtedly would have been had this revival now alluded to been made authoritatively.
Some individual Roman Catholic bishops at the present day, however (in England at any rate), wear mitres more allied to the Norman and Gothic shape.
In the Chapter-house, a mixture of Arab and Gothic architecture, the foreigners were much interested by the double row of portraits of the Toledan archbishops hanging on the wall, with their mitres and golden croziers.
To secure good joints of this kind it is necessary that the mitres be cut on an angle of exactly 45 degrees and that the pieces for the corresponding sides of the frame be precisely of the same length.
When borders and double bindings are used the narrow passe-partout strips are pasted on first, with proper care to cut the mitres correctly and to centre the strips accurately before pasting them down upon the glass.
The strings or streamers are to be found in many other head coverings, including the mitres of bishops (see Figure 50).
Sometimes servants' caps have strings which, like those that are customarily found on bonnets and on mitres (see page 54), are the survival of the ends of a head fillet.
Four other bishops, in Pontificalibus, with surplices, and rich embroidered copes, and golden mitres on their heads.
Presently flags and plumes are seen waving, the steel of the casques, the gold and precious stones of the mitres and crosiers are seen shining between the two files of archers.
The wagon stops at the foot of the platform on which the Cardinal of Winchester, the two Bishops and the captains are enthroned, in their mitres and their casques.
Four other Bishops, in their pontificalibus, with surplices and rich-embroidered copes, and golden mitres on their heads.
Spore cases, yellowish green, as large as mitres and much resembling them in shape protruded from the heaps.
They fringed it, their mitreshaving a grotesque appearance of watching what lay below.
Mitres were placed on their heads, with pictures representing them as worshipping the devil.
Eight men and six women, with paper mitres on their heads, were exposed to the jeers of the populace on a high scaffold at the Aracoeli, while the papal vicar and five bishops preached for their conversion.
He came of a noble family, but the secret of his power was his determination to live amongst the poor ones of the earth: hence at his feet are mitres inscribed with the names of the three cities of which he refused the bishoprics.
In the altar-piece at the National Gallery those white mitres form the keynote from which the pale, cloistral splendours of the whole picture radiate.
Of these a very few, seized with panic, hastily made their escape, but the greater part stood like heroes at their post, and even took off their mitres that their heads might present a better mark to the infuriated and partisan mob.
And when we innocently inquired if the architects wore mitres and copes, he impressively repeated his remark; so we are still in doubt whether the archbishops built the cathedral or the architects dressed like bishops!
While the Musick was performing a Tercet, they put on their white Copes, embroidered with Gold, and their Mitres of white Damask, and the Archbishops and Bishops did the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
