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
Forthwith he summon'd them Those by whom his message to Siegfried's land he sent, Brunhild sumptuous vesture gave them to their full content.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Whoe'er for love of Gunther to Gunther's court would speed, Was at his hands provided with vesture and with steed.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Sansculottism, belief in the rights of man, stript of all the conventional vestures and badges by which alone, and without any other ground of right, one man maintains an ascendency over another.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
Mad and crazy revelers, how ye drank and roared! but kings no more: vestures loosed; and scepters rolling on the ground.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
The populace will laugh outright at the curtailment of our vestures, but would gladly have seen these animals eat daily a quarter less of the lentils.”
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
The Mahometans use long loose vestures both of silk and cloth, most having hose or trowsers of cotton, and white shoes or slippers.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
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 Walter Thornbury
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 Emerson Hough
But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 't was averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their warning drone suggested prudence and retreat.
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
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
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
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
