On one side stood the army officers, the brilliantly dressed women, and the white people; on the other was standing Bear, in his official robes as chief of the Poncas, and with him were his leading men.
Over against him, my Lord Hermiston occupied the bench in the red robes of criminal jurisdiction, his face framed in the white wig.
In his robes upon the bench, Glenalmond had a certain air of burliness: plucked of these, it was a may-pole of a man that rose unsteadily from his chair to give his visitor welcome.
In short, all is ruined;' and Fakredeen hid his weeping face in the robes of Eva.
The Emir gave a deprecating glance of anguish, and then, bending his head, pressed his lips to the Bedouin robes which she wore.
His robes were white, those of the attendant priests purple with gold figuring--very beautiful.
The Japanese robes bought in Japan by foreign ladies are especially made for them;--they are not the real thing.
The old discipline has been relaxed; and there is a general return to sandals and robes and hakama,--the cap alone marking the university man.
Very elegant people came in their choicestrobes to pay allegiance to the new novelist.
She was dressed in robes of flowing silk of many colours, and when she walked, glittering chains of gold and precious stones jangled and rang.
The Judge himself leapt down from the bench and joined in, holding up his robes and footing it merrily.
Presently a procession of all kinds of fishes came in, all richly attired in flowing robes of various colours.
She was more beautiful than anything on earth, and her robes of pink and green changed colour like the surface of the sea at sunset in some sheltered cove.
Tis paid every day for pleasure or a whim, for rank or the entree, for robes and gewgaws.
The woman wrung her hands; then, a thought striking her, she darted to a corner where Mademoiselle's robes hung on pegs against the wall.
He struck the fellow down, and, with a reckless word, rode headlong into the procession, shouting to the black robes to make way, make way!
The passions and the heart are the dominion of the stars,--a mighty realm; nor less mighty beneath the hide that garbs the shepherd than under the jewelled robes of the eastern kings.
Red flashed the quivering flames on the dark robesand pale front of Morven; and he seemed mightier than the rest, because his face alone was calm amidst the tumult.
Paul, holding the robes of those who stoned Stephen, heard the martyr pray for his executioners.
The draperies flow easily; only in the abrupt turning up of the edges of the robes lingers an archaic touch.
They represent the Coronation of Our Lady; the robes flow easily and there is scarcely a touch of Byzantine rigidity left in them.
Some have handsome carved furniture, both tables and chairs, and cabinets, while their wives and daughters are decked in flowing robes and ornaments of gold and precious stones.
I thought that he would be soon tired if he had to carry both skins, and so I proposed at once cutting them into the shape of the robes we required.
When Mr. Harmer entered the house, he found the hall, and indeed the whole dwelling, thronged with the priests and assistants of the Romish Church, in the fullrobes of their office.
Although he had returned from mass some quarter of an hour, he still wore a part of the robes in which he had officiated.
Had thought possessed the Referendary His jewel-ease at home was left ajar, What would be wrong in running, robes awry, To be beforehand with the pilferer?
In token whereof and warning to the world, Strip me yon miscreant of those robes usurped, And clothe him with vile serge befitting such!
Masks were down And robes doffed now; the sole disguise was drink.
How do the Christians here deport them, keep Their robesof white unspotted by the world?
When he went to church he was attended by a hundred Knights in full uniform, and half a dozen pages to hold up the bottom of his robes of state.
In this interesting and curious armory are many torn flags, Turkish robes of military rank, and other trophies of war captured from the infidels in various conflicts.
But when he laid aside his helmet, and in his purple robes bestrode his white horse with its gay caparisons, and reined in its foaming mouth, the daughter of Nisus was hardly mistress of herself; she was almost frantic with admiration.
The robes and other parts of the dress of the goddesses were woven by Minerva and the Graces and everything of a more solid nature was formed of the various metals.
At the beginning of winter, when the robes were at their best, they made the winter hunt, from which they did not return until toward spring.
Their robes were all of beaver skin, very beautiful.
I rose from the pile of robes on which I had been dozing, and, after rolling them up, strolled out after him.
When the old woman saw her boy leading the dun horse with the load of meat and the robes on it, she was very much surprised.
They were clothed in robes of tissue, embroidered with roses of fine gold, and each was girt with a baldrick of massive gold.
Then twelve deacons in the same order, in robes of black silk and flat caps, each carrying a long lighted wax taper.
Then two chantry-priests in their robes singing the Miserere.
An Arab dhow, with her high and pointed stern, the pavilion upon it gaily painted—her decks crowded with men clad in the loose robes and heavy turbans of Arabia, and her huge square sail set to catch the breeze—sailed near them.
The solemn chant proceeded; each verse sung by the Moolas, who in their flowing robes preceded the coffin, was repeated by all around.
So the fatal day arrived when the monster was to be fed, and the princess came out to meet the crowd stately and calm, dressed in her royal robes as befitted a king's daughter.
It was evening and Martin was praying in his cell, when a bright light filled the place, and in the midst of the light he saw a figure clad in royal robes and with a crown of gold and jewels upon his head.
This old man was dressed in therobes of a bishop, and had a long white beard and the sweetest old face the child had ever seen.
And that night when he was asleep, he saw the doctor saints standing at his bedside in their red robes and caps trimmed with fur.
Whilst I painted him, the phungyi boys in yellow robes came along the shore to collect food from the people on the river boats alongside the sand, and from one or two stalls on the shore.
The priests in these boats, with their yellow robes and round palm leaf fans have a decorative effect of repetition, and we are told these fans keep their thoughts from wandering from righteousness to pretty girls.
The robes of the natives coming towards the station in the twilight under said shaft of light are greenish in contrast; they are wrapped up in their white mantles to keep off what they appear to think dangerous morning air.
We were presented first to the Chiefs; they were in the most magnificent, shimmering brown silk robes of state, all over gold and precious stones, and had pointed seven-roofed pagoda crowns of gold.
These priests, or phungyis, in their old gold cotton robes form one of the most distinctive features of Burmese life in town and country.
