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
XC At court the lovely ladies were asking evermore, Who was the stately stranger that so rich vesture wore, At once so fair of presence and so strong of hand.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
He twice sang the Psalm Exaudi, being habited in a sky-coloured loose garment, with sleeves of the same colour, but they would not permit him to wear the linen vesture used by bishops.
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
Bunker Bean, the divinely credulous, now daily arrayed himself in royal vestures, set a well-fashioned crown upon the brow of him and strode forth, sceptre in hand.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
After this are presented other vestures for the ornament of the Mosquita.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
B'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.
From The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes
A favorite child of the household, She is robed in the neatest of vestures.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
This, in the British Museum collection, is coarsely coloured, the night having no aerial quality, no distance, and the lily itself and the vestures of the pigmies being disagreeably strained in tint.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
The next who came was Halfdan, a light-haired swain: His countenance was noble, but weak and vain; He gaily bore a falchion, with which he gestured, And seemed a youthful maiden, in armor vestured.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb
Every field is newly vestured in young corn or the olive greenness of wheat; the smell of the earth is full of sweetness.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
Here is elemental personality, in inwrought and indivisible unity, with measureless capacity for versatility, easily blending fulness of vigor with complete repose, vestured and transfused with native symmetry and grace.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
He was strangely vestured; silver and gold gleamed in his raiment, and a large cross was outlined upon his back.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
An interview with Tom Bakewell had put him on the track, and now a momentary survey of the table, and its white- vestured cake, made him whistle.
From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 by George Meredith
