XII And when I got home, I threw myself on my bed, and instantly fell fast asleep, for I was worn out by emotion and fatigue: and my slumber resembled the deep peace of my own heart.
But besides the greatness of his crime, which is no less then rebellion, he was found to have in the hollow of his staff a sword longer then is permitted to be worn by the ordinances of this kingdom.
Primarily, every eagle feather wornby a warrior represents a coup given in battle.
He adopted only the feathers of certain birds, and these must be worn in accordance with well-understood law and custom.
At each appearance she became more confident, charged the part with deeper feeling, found new meaning in the time-worn words.
Upon my part, the recollection of his bold and manly bearing in my behalf choked all utterance; while upon his, my haggard cheek and worn look produced an effect so sudden and unexpected that he became speechless.
A running fire of kind and civil speeches poured in on me from all quarters, and amidst all that crowd of bronzed and war-worn veterans, I felt myself the lion of the moment.
There is always something of no common interest in seeing the bronzed and war-worn soldier mixing in the crowd of light-hearted and brilliant beauty.
Let it not be supposed that it is the moujik, the Russian peasant in sheepskin, with toil-worn hands, who has conducted that brilliant parliamentary battle in the Duma.
A splendidly embroidered robe of Europeanism is worn over a chaotic, undeveloped mass of semi-barbarism.
If Ivan valued these things, it was because they had been worn by Byzantium, and to him they symbolized power.
There IS a spot in Arcady, and at the centre of it there is a weather-worn old house, and not far away a perfect oak tree, and green fields all about, and a pleasant stream fringed with alders in the little valley.
But after a time my friend Bill Hahn, evidently quite worn out, yielded his place to another and far less clairvoyant speaker, and the crowd, among whom I now discovered quite a number of policemen, began to thin out.
I that was worn out, bankrupt both physically and morally, learned to live again.
But sometimes when you see oil pumped on a road, you know that either the contractor has been jobbin', or else the road's worn out and ought to be rebuilt.
His black coat was immaculately neat, but the worn button-covers and the shiny lapels told their own eloquent story.
And the habit of servitude, I find, has worn deep scars upon me.
One day he went home from a strikers' meeting--one of the last, for the men were worn out with their long struggle.
The hedges in the time-worn streets of Fitzroy Square light up--how the green runs along?
I was thinner than I am now, I was wornto a thread, I could hardly keep body and skirt together.
In those days tall hats wereworn in the country, and it was the business of his valet to keep them well brushed.
The colour of the chocolate coat he wears in his picture fixed itself in my mind's eye, and I began to compare it with the colour of the brown garment worn by the ghost I had seen in the wood.
This last bit of his work is especially good, and the boy who gets one of these volumes will become very popular among his fellows until the book is worn threadbare.
But rolling and lifting the stones into place was no mean job, and when at last they were able to pull themselves to the passageway above, both were utterly worn out and glad enough to sit down.
The ladies must exert their skill to move their trains quietly and neatly from behind them as they retire; and those who have never worn such dresses should lose no time in beginning to practise this.
As he had discarded the linen duster which he had worn during the dyeing process, there was no betraying splash of color on his severely correct garb.
Noting his joy in the deed, she made much of the shabby gift; praising and thanking Lad, inordinately; and forbearing to throw away the worn case until the collie was out of sight.
Suddenly, he darted ahead of them; and snatched up from the wayside the somewhat worn case of a thermos bottle which had been discarded there or had fallen from a car-seat.
And Saltbush Bill, grown old and grey, And worn with want of sleep, Received the news in camp one day Behind the travelling sheep That Edward Rex, confiding in His known integrity, By hand and seal on parchment skin Had made him a J.
Solemn historians affect to smile at the gaudy knights of the second Richard's Court, who wore the points of their shoes tied round their waists; they even ridicule the tight, choking, padded coats worn by George IV.
I know that, religiously as Christmas is kept up even on the frontier in India, the toughest of the men long for home, and pray for the time when the blessed regions of Brighton and Torquay and Cheltenham may receive the worn pensioner.
Again and again I have talked about the delights of leisure, and I always advise worn worldlings to renew their youth and gain fresh ideas amid the blessed calm of the fields and the trees.
Worn he may be, and perhaps dull to the influence of beauty and refinement; but there is always some nobleness about him.
To retire at fifty with a thousand a year is very pleasant no doubt; but then every one of those war-worn gentlemen who returns to take his ease represents a score who have perished in fights as undignified as a street brawl.
One day, he saw a man offering for sale worn clothes, and he went calling them in the market, but none bid for them, and all to whom he showed them refused to buy of him.
O ye who have departed the camp, ye've left behind My body worn with languor and spirit all decayed.
She was satisfied with his answer, and they drank and sported and made merry, till near upon sundown, when Behadir came in to them, having changed his clothes and girt his middle and put on shoes, such as are worn of servants.
Tis but my body's like thy waist, worn thin and wasted quite.
Have pity, sweet, on one that is for love of thee Worn out and wasted sore; once rich and great was he, Now beggared and cast down by love from his array.
The paddle, worn thin with weeks of hard wear, snapped like a pipestem.
When he had seen the man last, in San Francisco Bay, he had worn a red beard.
Lewis d'Ors, wornin a Lady's Ears for Pendants, 218.
Their Shoes are Seamen-like, or, with Reverence be it spoken, such as are now worn by the French Petits Maitres.
Charity had lain there a long time, passive and sun-warmed as the slope on which she lay, when there came between her eyes and the dancing butterfly the sight of a man's foot in a large worn boot covered with red mud.
She went up to bed early, leaving him seated in moody thought, his elbows propped on the worn oilcloth of the supper table.
After becoming somewhat worn out, he was suffered to run, and again suddenly checked.
Anne is worn out, and has had hysterics, which returned on my arrival.
I believe it is a literal fact that many of the artificial flowers worn at Court are actually stained with the tears of the famished and exhausted girls who make them.
Every glass of wine drunk by my lord, and every diamond star worn by my lady, has to be paid for with the sweat and the tears of the poorest of our people.
The child whose bouquet is worn by the father is the proudest child in Berry that day.
Franciscan friar, so named from the knotted cord worn by him as a girdle: (pl.
BAS'ES, a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback: (Spens.
BEAT'EN, made smooth or hard by beating or treading: trite: worn by use.
Basque provinces: the distinctive language of the Basques: a kind of short-skirted jacket worn by women, a continuation of the bodice a little below the waist.
V-shaped band of worsted braid or gold lace wornon the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
COD'-PIECE, a baggy appendage worn in front of the tight hose of the middle ages.
BASQ'UINE, an outer petticoatworn by Basque and Spanish women.
Christian centuries, on the pattern of a dress worn in Dalmatia.
Rome, to whom pertains the right of electing a new pope: a short cloak, formerly worn by ladies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
