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Sentence Examples
That was our plan, but we were beguiled by the mountain's glistening raiment into something rather more challenging.
You are clothed in a raiment of ecru, perfectly molded to your smooth flowing curves.
It's an especially lovely option at this time of year, with the trees donning their autumnal raiment.
Poseidon clothes himself in raiment of gold, grasps his gold whip, and takes his stand upon his chariot.
Their long slender bodies were clothed in raiment so silky, and their staffs issued high command.
A quick google reveals that he is a spiritual medium, the gleaming white raiment possibly implying a familiarity with the angelic host.
Acolytes in white and brown raiment came forth, standing just before her.
The faces, shapes, and raiment of the crowd change constantly as it surges by.
Next, Laodicea must obtain the white raiment, symbolizing the righteousness of Jesus Christ which cleanses us from all our sins.
The slender, fitted suits with narrow shoulders Simons designed in the mid-1990s wenormouslyusly influential, as was his co-opting of sportswear, and the raiment of popular youth movements.
And when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
The effects serve sharply limned figures whose sculptural roundedness, warm flesh, splendid raiment, and distinctive personalities leap to the eye.
He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment.
And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants and they bare them before him.
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
At one stroke his dashing raiment gave him high superiority over Johnnie Watson and other rivals who might loom.
The statue was also clad in costly raiment, bathed, and escorted to bed in the bedchamber of the god, often on top of the temple tower, or ziggurat.
Examples from Classical Literature
Presently two handsome girls, with jimp raiment and fearless demeanour, came in and took possession of an adjacent table.
Thereto likewise came Alwin decked out in his best raiment, and many others were there apparelled also in their best.
So, there, by one byplay of the mind or another, it survived in changing raiment.
Compared to his gaudiness of decking, the raiment of the others was mean and sober.
To see a dhobi, or washerman, who is associated with foul raiment, is exceedingly dangerous.
But lo, now were they dight in fresh and fair raiment and gleaming war-array.
Their scantiness of raiment, it is pleaded in their behalf, is due in no sense to immodesty.
He is a disunionist, too, and his very raiment should bear witness against this feeding of his enemies.
The fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
The next moment she was free of her scanty raiment, and was by the streamside.
It includes the great family of the lints and flaxes, and fulfils thus the three offices of giving food, raiment, and rest.
You shall know them by their raiment, for they mostly go clad of a frieze coat, bound by a girdle of unwrought leather.
Every rag of raiment that man has on he stole from my husband's wardrobe at the Hall.
His raiment was still at concert pitch, but his face even darker than it had been as the crime doctor saw it last.
The heir was as woe begone of face and as crassly sombre of raiment as even the most captious could have desired.
So he took Osberne from steelhead's arms, and being a stark and big man got him on to the bed and did off his raiment.
She had a doll, its raiment in about the same condition as her own, tucked under one arm.
It seemed an idle tale to say that any one could be lacking bread and raiment.
And now the hill-side and valley began to put on the raiment of a new year.
Marcian fell at his feet, and denied that he had worn any such raiment.
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Here, Robin, change your raiment with me, and we will see if my lord knows an old woman when he sees her.
Take this brave fellow up there and find him a change of raiment.
But now by the hoary elder stood A carle in raiment red as blood.
The years and the changed raiment had not altered her so much but what one who had known her features so well in childhood would know her now.
A marvellous scent rose from her silvern raiment as she moved, and beauty was wafted from her eyes.
I require neither your money, your food, nor your cast-off raiment.
Then in a cabinet I superintended Cousin Egbert's change of raiment.
They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
