For even revelation teaches us that all the stars shall grow old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shall they be folded up (Heb.
In a griffin-drawn chariot appears one whose brows are bound with olive, who is veiled in white, and mantled in green, and robed in a vesture that is coloured like live fire.
The author was acclaimed as a playwright who had at last succeeded in clothing stagecraft with the vesture of literature, and with happy phrase and nimble paradox delighted the minds of his audience.
XLIX In the tighten'd bodice many a smiling maid Had laced herself full deftly; each were ill appaid Did not her bright complexion outshine her vesture sheen.
Next him rode Sir Hagan, and close his vesture eyed.
Crowds in gorgeous vesture were stalking all about, Who ne'er had worn such splendor, and scarce so much as seen.
XXXVI Now to great King Gunther were the tidings told, That there had journey'd thither hardy knights and bold, Yclad in flashing armor and glittering vesture gay, But who and whence the strangers, could no Burgundian say.
He found her in the vesture that every day she wore; Her dames stood by in raiment all work'd and broider'd o'er.
LI Hear yet more of the vesture worn by the haughty dame; From Azagouc resplendent her silken surcoat came Of all-surpassing richness, that from about her shone The eye-bedimming lustre of many a precious stone.
Whoe'er for love of Gunther to Gunther's court would speed, Was at his hands provided with vestureand with steed.
To dwell with deadly foemen scorn and shame they thought; Matrons and maids were stirring, and out their vesture sought.
XXIII As sat they in high honor with all delights in store, What bright gold-color'd raiment their joyful followers wore, Laces and stones full precious fair work'd in vesture sheen!
XXIV Howe'er he might be willing, yet none could dare deny That such resplendent vesture never met mortal eye As on that fair retinue then sparkled to the sun.
For light she call'd and vesturethat she might straight be gown'd.
The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.
And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for glory and for beauty.
They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.
They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed.
When he went up to the holy altar, he honoured the vesture of holiness.
Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies.
Insulted by a lazy ribald With idle pipe and vesture piebald?
Now and then we seem to find traces in Hamlet of Plato's monologue, in the vesture given to it by Montaigne.
His servants have to follow His example, to put aside the needless vesture and brace themselves with the symbol of service.
On the wall there stood to guard it their dear wives and infant children, and with these the old men; but the rest went forth, and their leaders were Ares and Pallas Athene, both wrought in gold, and golden was the vesture they had on.
Know of a certainty that the ornament of life is to be arrayed with the vesture of praiseworthy conduct and be attired with the crown of goodly deeds.
Myriads were they born, and all In vesture heavenly clad, and heavenly gems; Yet more divine their native semblance, rich With all the gifts of grace and youth and beauty.
He also dreamed, poor fool, that there was in Samuel Brohl's mind or bosom an immortal soul, and that in this soul there was music, but that he could not hear it because the muddy vesture of decay too grossly closed it in.
This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed?
All that he does, and brings to pass, is the vesture of a Thought.
The oldest Hebrew Prophet, under a vesture the most diverse from ours, does yet, because he speaks from the heart of man, speak to all men's hearts.
Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants.
