A queen's raiment was that of this unknown beauty, and she herself might have been a queen as she swept down the great hall, scornfully careless of the eyes of those other beauties.
From the corner of her eye Mary Connynge saw him, a tall and manly man, superbly clad, faultless in physique and raiment from top to toe.
And behold, there came to him a man young in years and ragged of raiment and of case debased and there was none of blossom upon his cheeks and the World had changed his cuticle and Need had altered his complexion.
FN#385] So he arose without stay and delay; then, taking what provaunt was sufficient for the way and what little of fine raiment had been left to him, he quitted Cairo intending for his own country.
Herewith she came forward beside him and raised her raiment from her behind till the half of her below the waist was stark naked;--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased saying her permitted say.
As soon as it was evenfall, he went in to her and found her robed in her richest raiment and decked with her goodliest adornments.
And if Adam himself could rise from his grave and behold this madness for raiment in all circles of society, I believe he would stand petrified with astonishment at the sight.
Nor could he need raiment or money, who had all things under his immediate dominion and power.
Sometimes also he would change his raimentand mingle with private society so that he might enjoy greater freedom in conversation.
He gave strange attitudes, likewise, to the figures of certain soldiers who are playing for the raiment of Christ, with bizarre expressions of countenance and fanciful garments.
Now I saw in my Dream that these two men went in at the Gate: and lo, as they entered, they were transfigured, and they had Raiment put on that shone like Gold.
Forth from your steppes, your immemorial woods Of every tongue, of every raiment come!
To the great lords of earth, that hold the purse, He must for bread and raiment sell his voice.
There is a “raiment of camel’s hair about him, and a leathern girdle about his loins.
When he was transfigured on Tabor, his face shone like the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
A suit of flaming, impurpled, and blackish red was his raiment since he instigated the rebellion in heaven: this he wears at home.
It is here we behold him “glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength,” trampling the hosts of hell, till his raiment is red with blood.
As certainly as he hath shed his blood on Calvary, shall he stain all his raiment with the blood of his foes on the field of Armageddon.
The raiment worn by his family was comely and decent, but as simple as their diet; the home-spun materials were made up into apparel by their own hands.
As for the midweek breathing space, the men were not monks; however zealous their studies of the lilies of the field, the provision of meat and raiment must have some crumbs of consideration.
Here a wistful-faced old man in spotless white raiment had appeared in the dawn with a tray of tea and toast.
So the king gave him his own raiment of new scarlet, a gold-embroidered kirtle, and a cloak lined with choice furs, and a gold ring which weighed a mark.
But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.
It is true that the statutes of Toleration regarded a devise for the maintenance of poor Jewish children, to give them food andraiment and lodging, as a charity.
The objects of the charity were various: for relief of prisoners, educating and instructing poor people, for food and raiment for the aged and impotent, and others of the same kind.
There were the customary changes of raiment too, given as presents by the officers of the fort, and these we put on in the cabin of the galley in place of the sodden clothes we wore.
There is raiment in all these chests which stand by the walls," said the girl, "and jewels and gauds in that bronze coffer.
Thanks to Matty Cann, a change of raiment was made in the cell, and Nickie Crips appeared in court in his proper person, and was fined two pounds.
THE tall, spare man in rusty, clerical raiment was going from room to room in one of the huge, city buildings where Business people, gregarious as sparrows, nest in hundreds.
Moreover she brought me a gift of gold from Pharaoh, and other gifts of fineraiment from herself.
Her love now engrossed his heart and he fared homeward with her rejoicing, for that she was a girl worth ten thousand gold pieces and her raiment and ornaments would fetch a mint of money.
Now Ja'afar had sent one of the gardener-lads to the doorkeeper of the palace to fetch a suit of royal raiment for the Prince of the Faithful; so the man went and, returning with the suit, kissed the ground before the Caliph and gave it him.
After this fashion he did for four days full told, and he lavished upon Sophia raiment and ornaments and great store of wealth; and, every few days he would send a messenger to ask after her and the new-borns.
When my master's daughters and wife heard this, they screamed and rent their raiment and beat their faces, whilst the neighbours came around them.
When Marjanah saw this, she cried out with a grievous cry and rent her raiment and cast dust on her head and buffeted her cheeks till blood flowed, saying, "Alas, my mistress!
So she related to him what his son had done, whereat he was much concerned and rent his raiment and smote his face till his nose bled, and plucked out his beard by the handful.
Then he rent his raiment and plucked out his beard and, casting his turband from off his head, buffetted his face till the blood ran down and he cried aloud, "Alas, my children!
Do on thy raiment speedily, my Elfhild, and come forth with me, and let him wake up by himself.
Now it is done, so cover thee in thy raiment and rest a while; and then I will depart and leave thee to the might which I have given thee, and the valiance which hath grown up in thine heart.
Said Osberne: "We shall lay him in earth here in his raiment as he fell, since he died in manly wise, though belike he has lived as a beast.
And in a while, she arose and did on her everyday raiment and went home.
But now the tire-woman came to her and led her into a chamber apart, and bathed her and clad her in fair raiment and led her back to the hall, for so had the Blue Knight commanded.
And he kept ever by my side on the way there and back, and looked at me oft in the failing light, though I was but in my sorry old raiment with bare feet, in such guise as thou hast not seen me for years, my dear.
And she did back her raiment from her thin neck, and it was white as snow under the woolen, and she did on the necklace, and Osberne thought indeed that it sat well there, and that her head and neck looked grand and graithly.
Now as aforesaid Osberne was in his holiday raiment of red-scarlet by the bidding of Stephen.
The carle smiled, and said to himself, Forsooth, yonder ruffler must needs clothe him in holiday raiment to do his doughty deed!
My Lord Oxford's squire must needs wear better raiment than a silkman's apprentice, Mrs Murthwaite.
But thy good Nan and thy Bet shall have raiment and lackeys enow, and that soon, too: my cofferer shall look to it.
If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown!
These latter ornamented their scanty raiment prettily with various designs painted in colors, and also with seeds and shells.
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