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Jennie kept his parliamentary vestments for her son, apparently instilling in Winston the sense that he would be a leader.

The parish priest Father Michele Iacono, dressed in purple vestments, blessed the bodies and performed last rights en masse.

The Jew beholds his tormentor dressed in the vestments of his own ancient culture.

In one postcoital scene, a priest parades around seminaked, wearing only his clerical vestments.

The showy accoutrements of state power have replaced the vestments of resistance.

He had been buried in the vestments peculiar to his office, viz., the alb and tunic.

It is seen falling in a copious shower, and gathered in the vestments of four Israelites.

He was partly supported by a slave woman, and was content to clothe himself with vestments taken from the dead.

He used white vestments at Easter, changed the order of the service, and allowed a picture in church.

Now we are going to have a kind of bitter, clawed, forked female, in vestments over breeches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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