vesture
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Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
It was not a vesture or a posture, a gesture or a phrase, assumed here and discarded there, and often counterfeit.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
The Vestal Virgins were further distinguished by a vesture of pure white linen, with a purple border and a wide purple mantle.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
The nation has stripped itself of the old vestures; patriots of the type soon to be called Girondins have the problem of governing this naked nation.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, "a writing on their vestures which nobody knew".
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
Thou it is who hast bestowed all good things upon the Man, and He weareth them like vestures.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by Lamplugh, F.
The reality of man's intercourse with Eternity and with his fellow-men has died within these vestures, but the eyes of the public are satisfied, and never guess the corpse within.
From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John
The twenty-four gentlemen at once appeared, in long white vestures, with scarves of Pallas's colours, and the king-at-arms, bowing to each, explained to them the laws of the new order.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 'twas averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their dreadful drone suggested prudence and retreat.
From The Golden Age by Grahame, Kenneth
It was vestured all about with Godly piety.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
One high torch sidewise worried by the gust Sunned that lorn den of hunger, death and rust, And one tall damsel vaguely vestured, fair With shadowy hair, poised on the rocky stair.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
But his appeal is vestured in ideal deference.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
Mayhap book and bell and organ peal and vestured choir and high ceremony of the church may be more solemn; but I, who speak the truth from this very knowledge, think it could not be.
From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson
