Instead of tunics they wear a slashed garment with sleeves descending a little below the hips.
One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, girt about the breast, and walking with staves, thus resembling the Furies we see in tragic representations.
Here are bred the horses and mules known as ginni, and here too are wrought the Ligurian tunics and saga.
It is said that these[1270] were the first who introduced amongst the men [of the Baleares] the custom of wearing tunics with wide borders.
Approaching him at a rapid gait he at last espied his two despatch bearers, their scarlet tunics vivid against the green background.
In front of me half-a-dozen members of the International Police Force (their tunics and boots gave me to understand their quality) were dragging along a woman who held a baby in her arms.
The entire body of the Hall was filled by soldiers in mud-coloured tunics and waterproof boots.
The tunics and mantles of Candaules were hung upon wooden pegs.
Washerwomen hastily folded the still damp tunics and chlamidae, and piled them upon mule-wagons.
Besides, he had just purchased some Laconian dresses, a number of yellow tunics embroidered with gold, and some Asiatic children which absorb all his time.
All were clad in rose-colored tunics ornamented with a silver Greek border, and their long hair flowed down over their shoulders in thick curls.
Of what use to her would have been the draperies which conceal form, the tunics with their carefully fastened folds?
The principal thing worthy of notice is the amount of ornament with which the Franks enriched their girdles and the borders of their tunics and cloaks.
There were brooks and mills at the foot of the slope before them--but, everywhere along those miles of valley road, the blue tunics and the red breeches of the soldiers of France were visible.
But the sun shone warm upon the pastures; there were gay tunics in all the valleys; she heard the music of the drums; the romance of war put a cloak upon the reality of war.
Certainly their tunics of light blue, with the scarlet cuffs and shoulder-straps, and the eagles upon their helmets, were strange to her.
Whatever quaking hearts the white tunics covered, no sign there was of hesitation or of delay.
Here is a Gloire de Dijon which is worth all the tunics in France.
He could see Raoult's brigade already busy upon it; the blue tunics and the red breeches of infantry soldiers flashed beneath the trees; even the quaint uniforms of the zouaves, and the black Turcos, were to be seen.
Many of these wear brilliantly-coloured tunics of cloth or dressed buckskin, more or less tastefully adorned with beadwork or shining silver plates.
The tunics were genuinetunics formerly worn by the actual Praetorian Guards but discarded and sold as worn or faded.
We were careful not to get bogged and we kept our tunics and cloaks dry, though we were mired to the knees.
Their tunics and cloaks were old and of poor material.
We threw off our shoes, wallets and cloaks, tucked up our tunics and, staffs in one hand and sheathless knives in the other, barefoot, raced back along the track after the guiding dog.
I suppose the toga was a natural enough garment for our ancestors, who practically wore nothing else, as their tunics were short and light.
He would supply us with rusty brown tunics and cloaks of undyed mixed wool, such as were worn by poor or economical farmers throughout Sabinum.
Certainly knots of them hung about the streets and squares, all in ordinary tunics and rain hats, shorn of their uniforms as well as of their weapons, and looking not only humbled but frightened.
Each man wants to wear immense wigs, and anoint himself with rare perfumes; he would have tunics and aprons woven with gold, wear chains and bracelets set with jewels.
Third came merchants, some in wigs, all in long tunics and pelerines.
It was growing darker, but all around the scarlet tunics of the guards were as red as blood.
All the cloth hose and doublets and tunics were in their places in the cedar wardrobes and chests of drawers, except those he had taken off, which lay on a chair.
And she saw red all round him and behind him and beside him up to his knees, the red of the guards' tunics that were like scarlet stains in the twilight air.
The fashions of the Republic had been copied after ancient Greek and Roman styles; and the ladies of the Republic flaunted their Grecian tunics and Roman sandals with great pride.
The tunics of archers were sometimes elaborately embroidered; and on the whole they seem to have been regarded as the flower of the foot-soldiery.
Magnificently attired at the start of the hunt, those seigneurs, who looked so resplendent in their rich tunics of silk, now presented a sight that was as ridiculous as it was pitiful.
There were to be mantles embroidered with heads of dragons, tunics wrought with heads and wings of peacocks, and embroidered in many other fantastic ways.
The ploughmen and all agricultural labourers were only to wear tunics of blanket or russet, with girdles of linen.
Orders were given to manufacture for the Christmas sports eighty tunics of buckram of different colours, and a large number of masks--some with faces of women, some with beards, some like angel heads of silver.
Some of the graffiti on the interior walls and pillars of houses are memoranda of domestic transactions; as, how much lard was bought, how many tunics sent to the wash, when a child or a donkey was born, and the like.
Under their trowsers they wore drawers, and under their tunics shirts, and under their shoes stockings or socks.
Their puttees were snugly reefed about their shanks and their khaki tunics buttoned up to their throats.
The tunics were open and disclosed beneath them cashmere robes, with very tight sleeves terminating in gold fringes.
Two wore tunics of crimson brocade, embellished in front with broad gold lace.
His habit was poor and mean, his tunics full of sweat and blood and all tattered.
Most of them wore tunics of some dark colour, which, though longer than our kitonets, were shorter than those worn by the Syrians.
And let their cowls and tunics be somewhat better than what they usually wear.
For it is sufficient if a monk has two tunics and two cowls, to allow for night wear and for the washing of these garments; more than that is superfluity and should be taken away.
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