| 单词 | vesture |
| 例句 | 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. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z 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.” | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z 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. The hidden meanings of Pope Benedict XVI’s ruby-red shoes 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Modern thought leaders are like secular clergy, convening gatherings and delivering sermons that are really just moral pep-talks dressed up in TED-style vesture. 4 Fundamental Problems With Everything You Hear About The Future Of Education 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The Vestal Virgins were further distinguished by a vesture of pure white linen, with a purple border and a wide purple mantle. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z But it is an acknowledged truth, that the longer we have worn our earthly vesture, the dearer becomes the thin and faded remnant. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z He was dressed in a long vesture of snow-white flannel, buttoned together in front, with a large crimson velvet cape over his shoulders, and band and tassels of silver cloth hanging from beneath. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z And with the mounting ascent I became unconscious of my corporeal vesture. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z They seemed really mountains and not hills, receiving an Alpine tone with their wintry vesture. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z 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. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z Thy satin vesture richer is than looms Of Orient weave for raiment of her kings! The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z A luckless youth with gold braid upon his vesture, who was bending down to extricate the lady, received the sword-point in his back, and, screaming, swooned away. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z "The blood-dyed vestures of the Redeemer are not waving in triumph over the ramparts of sin and rebellion," but over the fortresses of faith float the white flags of truce. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z To the north and east are the Ochil hills, "vestured" in blue, and looking down upon fertile fields, umbrageous woods, and stately mansions. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Adorn thyself with the fairest jewel, with the bride, whose soul is as pure and glittering as its vesture; like pearl and pearl-muscle, the one as the other, lustrous and ornamental! Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z "Because I would learn which it is among your gods that is winged with silver, crowned with stars, dressed in a purple vesture, and carries in his right hand a lyre of gold." Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Yea, thy love shall enfold the soul which thou lovest: it shall be unto him a wedding garment and a vesture of blessing. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z But his appeal is vestured in ideal deference. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z And they parted his raiment and cast lots, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z No, Freedom, no! blood should not stain The hem of thy white vesture. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Stars—wings—purple vesture—lyre—I do not know. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Friend! trouble not yourself about your lot, Let futile care and sorrow be forgot; Since this life's vesture crumbles into dust, What matters stain of word or deed, or blot? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It was not a vesture or a posture, a gesture or a phrase, assumed here and discarded there, and often counterfeit. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Well pleas'd him their fair vesture, and well their armor sheen, Yet sure the like he never in Burgundy had seen. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Very easy about your interest and your premiums; very careless who arrests you in your leaden vesture; and having paid, if nothing else, at least your beloved son's post obit. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z For afterwards no one saw him behind the scenes, no one was admitted to his presence until every feature had been composed and his wig and his vesture dramatically arranged. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Ah! thou hast snared this head, though white as snow, Which oft has vowed the wine-cup to forego; And wrecked the mansion long resolve did build, And rent the vesture penitence did sew! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It was vestured all about with Godly piety. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Within seven weeks, now ready was the vesture bright, Ready too the weapons of each death-daring knight. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The vesture of fair seeming in the present campaign was torn away and there was revealed rottenness. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z In a griffin-drawn chariot appears one whose brows are bound with olive, who is veiled in white, and mantled in green, and robed in a vesture that is coloured like live fire. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z For surely earth cannot present, nor unassisted reason fancy or conceive an object more profoundly significant of Divine Majesty than these hills clothed in their vestures at the top, by everlasting snow. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z 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. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z LI Hear yet more of the vesture worn by the haughty dame; From Azagouc resplendent her silken surcoat came Of all-surpassing richness, that from about her shone The eye-bedimming lustre of many a precious stone. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z She was more beautiful than the daughters of men, and her vesture was heavy with gold and gleaming stones. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z The author was acclaimed as a playwright who had at last succeeded in clothing stagecraft with the vesture of literature, and with happy phrase and nimble paradox delighted the minds of his audience. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Notice the rich colouring of purple and yellow in the vesture of the angel. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z This massive poise, and breadth, and balanced evenness are the seemly vesture of his character. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z XV To start they now were ready; to each of all the band Was brought both steed and vesture; so rode they from the land. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z That spot is sanctified by the presence of his pure earthly vesture, and that is sufficient—at least, it must be. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z It is this thought of the larger understanding that will come when we have put off the coarse vesture of things that makes this speculation reasonable. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z As to manner, he was vestured in humility, desiring to eject and ban the pharisee from his own and all other hearts. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z LXI Then said the fearless champion, "And this I tell you more, I'll carry all th' equipment that in the chase I wore, My spear, my shield, my vesture—leave will I nothing out." The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z “Alleluia: for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth ... and on His vesture a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z "St. Edmund grievously punishes those who are far off as well as those who are near at hand; how much more will he inflict vengeance upon those who take away his vesture!" The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called, The Word of God. Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities 2011-10-12T02:00:53.650Z I tell thee he who passed was a goodly Knight, clad in a green vesture, and riding on a great black jennet. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Out from his bloodied vesture his comely limbs they drew, And wash'd his wound wide-gaping, and laid him on the bier. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Because the new nature has been assumed in the very act of conversion, therefore array your souls in vesture corresponding. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z If for the heart's own sake we break the heart, we may When the last ruby drop dissolves in diamond light Meet in a deeper vesture in another day. The Divine Vision and Other Poems 2011-09-02T02:00:18.933Z And after he was crucified they cast lots upon his vesture. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z The incident would lose some of its hard, homely outlines if clothed in any but the coarse, drab vesture of plain-spoken words with which Franklin clothes it. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z To dwell with deadly foemen scorn and shame they thought; Matrons and maids were stirring, and out their vesture sought. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z But we might as well assume, with some early Biblical commentators, that the naked Adam in Paradise was miraculously clothed in a vesture of refulgent light. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z There was no rent in the vesture of His holiness. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z Those times are all gone by; what follows likewise will go by; the body, too, will fall to pieces like a vesture; but I, the well-known I, I am. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Putting off their mortal vesture, in their Source their souls they steep,— Truth by actual vision learning, on its form their gaze they keep,— Drinking from the living Fountain draughts of living waters deep. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z He found her in the vesture that every day she wore; Her dames stood by in raiment all work'd and broider'd o'er. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Was solid comfort more lasting, and therefore more desirable, than the richly-hued vesture of romance? The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Wonderful vision of Him who is clothed with a vesture dipped in blood! Studies in Zechariah 2011-05-26T02:00:17.670Z Candles of wax she lit before A pier glass standing from the floor; Up to the ceiling, off she tore With eager hands her jewels, then The silken vesture which she wore. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z That must be put off—changed as a vesture—by the risen and reunited body and soul. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Hot tears of wrath and malice once more her vesture dew'd. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Adorn thyself with the fairest jewel, with the bride, whose soul is as pure and glittering as its vesture; like pearl and pearl-muscle, the one, as the other, lustrous and ornamental! The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The short skirt and the shirt waist are the true vesture of emancipated woman. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z They must, therefore, be at war with the Lamb; but the Lamb shall overcome them, for he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z 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. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z With that, the richest vesture, he bade for them provide. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z They have to hope: they have to believe that as a vesture they shall be changed, and that the new will be better than the old. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Ah happy he, who from this vale of sighs, Poisonous and dark, heavenward hath flown, and lost Only the vesture, frail and weak, that dies! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The city wore a terrible vesture; within our hearts was dread; without we were clothed in black clouds and angry fire. The Great Return 2011-03-20T02:00:35.837Z Does all this smell of thyme about my feet Conclude my visit to your holy hill In personal presence, or but testify The rustling of your vesture through my dreams With influent odours? Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z 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. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z With a long gown down to her heel, Pensive and slow, with a silent gesture Upon the sun at a white wheel She is spinning a blue linen vesture. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z And sweet, but as a vesture with new dyes, The body that was clothed with love of old. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z These three were in dyed vesture, red as blood. The Great Return 2011-03-20T02:00:35.837Z Their graceful forms are shewn to full advantage in their loose and flowing vesture the brilliant and well-selected shades of which contrast beautifully with surrounding nature. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z XIX Many a stone full precious flash'd from her vesture bright; Her rosy blushes darted a softer, milder light. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The outer vesture of an animal counts for little in estimating the value of ties which bind orders of animals together, which are included in the larger classes of life. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Its usual vesture is a long purple period, freely Latinized, though Browne equally commands the form of solemn and monumental epigram. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I shall further take the position that the set forms of verse which have grown up among all nations as a vesture for emotional writing, have been more or less pervaded with artificiality. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He wore the white vesture of his office with an air of negligence, and his doctor's robe without any special attention to its artistic adjustment upon his person. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z LI So to their loving comrades a messenger was sent, That they the goodly vesture might see before they went, If it for the warriors too short were or too long. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Moreover, in such foreign vesture they are clumsy and constrained; they cut but a sorry and even ridiculous figure, like David in the armour of Saul. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z What does this blood on my vesture? and what does this pang in my soul? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z There also ‘they found a queen of gracious form, and she draped in vesture of a golden fabric’, who tells them that they are in the Earth’s fourth paradise. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The mangoes had lost their vesture; the palms were gnarled and naked fingers pointing to the pitiless sky. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Crowds in gorgeous vesture were stalking all about, Who ne'er had worn such splendor, and scarce so much as seen. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z I met him in his gloomy cell, Where all alone and sad, He spent the darksome day and night In homely vesture clad. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z And “they shall perish, and wax old like a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Auster, God of the south wind, appeared generally as an old man with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a head covered with clouds, a sable vesture and dusky wings. Heathen Mythology 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. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems 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. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z I told them that they made the Christian religion a religion of postures and ceremonies, of circumflexions and genuflexions, of garments and vestures, of ostentation and parade.” p. 196R. Springtime and Other Essays Five out of every hundred may perhaps possess two suits of clothes, but their general vesture consists of a large cotton shirt, a pair of leathern trousers, and a blanket. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 Wrapped in their fiery vesture and shroud of flame, they yet exulted in their glorious victory. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Then Gabriel's host in silver gear And vesture twilight blue, The spirits of immortal mind, The warders of the true, Took up the theme that gives the world Significance anew. Later Poems Such plenty of rich vesture never sumpters bore. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Wake me by no gesture,—sound of breath, or stir of vesture! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II For I had, indeed, been folded up in my fever like a vesture, and, like a vesture, changed. Bye-Ways But it is equally true and not less important that the old covenant was the vesture of truths which remain when the garment has been changed. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains. The Bible Story Delved from the earth a rude and shapeless thing, Rended by force from the deep quarry's breast,— Behold from such, a pure form upward spring, In beauty's fairest vesture aptly drest. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West 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. The Golden Age Lo! a great name hath he written upon his vesture and upon his girdle. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His vesture was a robe of blood, and they Who followed him proclaimed, The Word of God! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 A favorite child of the household, She is robed in the neatest of vestures. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation His own dire vesture took a shape as fair As gentle bridegroom's heart could wish to wear. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa The purples and yellows of the angel's vesture have kept their depth and richness through all the centuries in which the colors have been drying. Cathedrals of Spain Such a right is known as a right of sole vesture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Many raised themselves boldly enough that they might become stars, and therefore must now be deprived of the fair green vesture of the lower regions. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Seers wrapped themselves up in bulls’ hides, and awaited, in that vesture, the inspiration which was to reveal the future. Our Southern Highlanders "Speak not of the royal purple," says St. Chrysostom, "of diadems, of golden vestures—these are but shadows, frailer than the flowers of spring, compared to the power and privileges of the priesthood." What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People Neither will you find a dress parade except the painter's brush with its vesture of flame in the upper alpine meadows. Through Our Unknown Southwest Softly had Prince Pedro risen from his nuptial couch that morn, Lightly donned his hunting vesture, at the call of hound and horn: Yet he bends enamored o'er that face of Beauty born. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 In Tahiti the spirit-eater is said to assume a vesture which has much more of pomp, but how much less of horror. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) There lay what might have been fringes and fragments of sea-gods' vestures,—blue, crimson, purple, and orange seaweeds, wreathed in tangled ropes of kelp and sea-grass, or lying separately scattered on the sands. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine 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. Old and New London Volume I Which remark alluded to the coat worn by Mr. Nimrod—a vesture of blue, with brass buttons, rendered further striking by loose nankeen continuations, and a green cravat. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement The wind that swept them out of sin Has ruffled all our vesture: On the shut door that let them in We beat with frantic gesture,— 8 XIX. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV She showed him where her lord concealed his clothing, and begged him to spoil the were-wolf of his vesture on the next occasion on which he set out to assume his transformation. Legends & Romances of Brittany The Father took His radiant glory and made thereof an outer vesture for the Man.... The Gnôsis of the Light These are but the trappings, the outward vesture of war; the cause, the sacred cause, is by this transformation in the methods of war all untouched. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Verdure of herb and leafy plenitude Spread o'er it like a vesture, and the glow Of sunlit waters smiling from afar, Half as in fancy, half reality. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Did he, perchance in dreams, catch something of “the rustling of her vesture” that influenced his mind to the change? The Brownings Their Life and Art Instantly on learning this the King demanded the were-wolf’s vesture from the treacherous knight her lover, and when this was brought to him he caused it to be spread before the wolf. Legends & Romances of Brittany She made a vesture thereof over all which is in him, so that he might give to him who asked him. The Gnôsis of the Light Dying, he bequeaths imperialism to France as Euphorion leaves his vesture in the hands of Faust and Helena. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Kind souls, What! weep you when you but behold Our C�sar's vesture wounded? Eighth Reader III In the beauty of the twilight, in the Garden that He loveth, They have veiled His lovely vesture with the darkness of a name! Collected Poems Volume One Upon Thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.... Needlework As Art Thou it is who hast bestowed all good things upon the Man, and He weareth them like vestures. The Gnôsis of the Light She descended the rest of the way and advanced, revealed in her complete height and all her radiant vesture. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards They can enter the court of the Gentiles; but their mortal vesture is too muddy for admission into the holy of holies. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Her quiver hung behind her back, her tress Knotted in gold, her purple vesture eke Buttoned with gold. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The Phrygian queen to her rich wardrobe went, Where treasured odours breathed a costly scent; There lay the vestures of no vulgar art, Sidonian maids embroider’d every part. Needlework As Art There is also the giving of the "Crisome" or white vesture as a symbol of innocence. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer It consists of sheep-skin, with the wool outside; a few rags on their legs and thighs, complete their vesture. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy For a time he gained prestige with Irene Straley, especially as he gave her bright feathers now and then, an oriole's gilded mourning, or a tanager's scarlet vesture. In a Little Town Whenever we come across figures of Anglo-Saxon bishops, the liturgical vesture entirely agrees with the Biblical description. Needlework As Art The Service of Baptism was no longer suffered to retain the exorcism of the evil spirit, or the white vesture, or the unction; and there were other items of less important change. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer So having spoken, the Goddess in majesty peerless, arising, Veil'd her in mantle of black; never gloomier vesture was woven; And she advanced, but, for guidance, the wind-footed Iris preceded. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 “They parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.” The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ Face and vesture alike revealed to the sharp eye of the Italian the woe underneath. Dr. Sevier And my pulses leaped for joy Of the golden thought without alloy, That I saw his very vesture's hem. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Whithersoever we turn our gaze we discern, lurking under the comely vesture of Italy, the clumsy form of the Teuton. England and Germany To one side of it the farms lay, brown and gold in their autumn vesture. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Array, raiment, and vesture are archaic or poetic; so, too, is habit, except in technical use to denote a lady's riding-dress. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions For this reason he thinks that it is his spirit which is superannuated, while its "muddy vesture of decay" is in very tolerable repair. Imaginary Interviews Is the vesture left me to commune with? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning None copies else so close The bidden gait, the features, and the mode Of converse; vesture too the same he wears, And language such as most they wont to speak. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II At the moment of the Revolution everyone, according to his aspirations, dressed the new belief in a different rational vesture. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Never had the garb of respectability been so battered into the vesture of disrepute. The Belovéd Vagabond Said he—'Wake me by no gesture,—sound of breath, or stir of vesture; Let the blessed apparition melt not yet to its divine! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Between a book bound in its original cloth or paper boards, and one in its rich vesture of morocco or russia, there is a contrast similar to that between a woodland and a park. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Was Christ less a Christ in His vesture, woven without a seam, than He would have been in the suit of a Broadway dandy? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature He has spent every energy of his life here, in building the vesture. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation He turns his earnest gaze towards nature, and through this living vesture of the infinite he seeks to catch some glimpses of the living Soul. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles What can we desire more characteristic and harmonious than a Caxton, uncut and in oaken boards, or even in a secondary vesture of vellum, like the Holford copy of the Life of Godfrey of Bouillon? The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time And as a vesture Thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. The Faith of Our Fathers The "muddy vesture of decay" which "grossly closes in" our diviner principle has been burnt up and absorbed. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations All nature and life prompting us to see that it is but vesture we make so much of. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation But in Winter he was gloomy, Dark, and dismal, and uncheerful, And sat brooding as in anger, Robed in garments dull and heavy; All gay vesture now forsaken, And all music now forbidden. A Leaf from the Old Forest But clothed in the vesture of princes, with a gold chain around his neck, and surrounded by the pomp of power, they did not know him, while he knows them. Ancient States and Empires Forests and waterfalls, precipices and greenswards, grey lichened crags and sun-bathed terraces, up, above all, an exquisite vesture of snow, flawless and dazzling—these stood for beauty. Jonah and Co. Nor mask nor vesture was His mien By man and angels wistly seen, Nor filmy veil, nor apparition, God's human life as the Nazarene. Song-waves While their eyes are still directed up to the spot where they got the last glimpse of the vanishing cloud—transfixed there in speechless Sorrow, lo! “two men stood by them in shining vestures!” Memories of Bethany It was the middle of June, and Nature lay a vision of beauty in her vesture of flowers, leaves, and blossoming grasses. Aunt Jane of Kentucky White, polished skeletons, bare of flesh and vesture, skeletons clothed in the dreadful rags of dried and rattling sinews, the tags of tattering grave-clothes flaunting behind them. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories And He was clothed in a vesture dipped with blood; and His name is called the Word of God. The Work Of Christ Past, Present and Future But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Her people are arrayed in purple vesture, and wear cloaks of gold; their loins are cinctured with girdles rich with precious stones. The Story of Paris The difference, however, is in the vesture that the esthetic ideal assumes. Essay on the Creative Imagination If the Author has succeeded in clothing one or two of these norms in some slightly new vesture, he is more than content. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Not only his vesture but also his daily life and practices were the same as those which are the privilege and glory of monks, nuns, and hermits. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History So these Homeric glimpses into the realm of what is to become science are not to be neglected or despised, in spite of their mythical, ambiguous vesture. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The 'muddy vesture of our clay' falls from us as we look. . . . The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete “And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan This fluttering vesture was marked with strange characters, in black and red, which Leonora was able to interpret. He Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid That paragons description, and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And, in the essential vesture of creation, Does tire the ingener.” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The story has lived and renewed itself in manifold forms; it has that highest power of a genuine mythus, it produces itself through all ages, taking on a fresh vesture in Time. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Some were very plain, the wearers of them affecting a simple and savage ferocity in the fashion of their vesture. Xerxes Makers of History It seemed to me to be the mortal vesture chosen by one of the angels of heaven to express to earthly souls all the attributes of the children of light. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The glory of God appears in a kingdom of God, a visible vesture of the Spirit. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Your vesture is simple—a thin shirt, open at the collar, and a pair of shorts, stockings and shoes. In Mesopotamia Go quickly hence, and with you bear Fine silken vestures rich and rare, And gems and many a precious thing As gifts to Bharat and the king.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse After this he, too, might put on the spiritual vesture of the scientist, saying to the people: What did you see in the other true sciences? Spontaneous Activity in Education Prophecy says, “They part my garments p. 147among them, and casts lots upon my vesture.” The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 They trampled loud the soil, straining to draw 100 Herself with all her vesture; nor alone She went, but follow’d by her virgin train. The Odyssey of Homer When we last parted, summer suns were smiling, And the bright earth her flowery vesture wore; But thou hadst lost the power of beguiling, For my wrecked, wearied heart, could hope no more. Poems Then when the people wroth and sad Saw Sítá in bark vesture clad, Though wedded, like some widowed thing, They cried out, “Shame upon thee, King!” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Mine own sweet stream! thy rugged shores are stripped of all their vesture sheen, And dark December's fury wars where grace and loveliness have been, Stream of my heart! The Teesdale Angler They shall wax old, it is true, but that is only as if a garment waxed old; “As a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed.” The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 He looked away over the immense and radiant prospect, and then up at the radiant woman in her vesture of turquoise, pink, and gold. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance White was their snowy vesture, And shining as the Alps, when that the sun Gems their pale robes with diamonds. Poems For thee the fairest wreaths were meant, The sandal and the aloe's scent, Rich ornaments and pearls of price, And vesture meet for Paradise. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse So every gigantic fact in Nature is the index and vesture of a gigantic force. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators My webs of life in reveries were dyed As veils in vats of purple: so there stole Serene and sumptuous and mysterious pride Through the imperial vesture of my soul.� The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence Even familiar things had put on a new and beguiling vesture in the last half hour, so there were miracles abroad, perhaps. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Saw you ever such brilliant vesture, such resplendent fins? Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Shall not the dame I love be seen In vesture worthy of a queen? The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He was probably a mile distant, and his gray vesture was little relieved by the blue haze of the forest. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Love’s vesture shall Enfold me as I go! Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet He indicated with a gesture The pile of newly fashioned vesture: His eyes on hers a moment centered, And then he went, as he had entered. Grimm Tales Made Gay The hiss Of passion stript all vesture from his tones And showed the King man naked to the bones, Man naked to the body's utterance. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems Next on the corpse were perfumes thrown And many a flowery wreath was strown; And with Vibhishaṇ's ready aid Rich vesture o'er the king was laid. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse There you gathered forming slowly Rounding into view: All your vesture glowed like verdure When the sap is new. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Are we not for the sacrifice arrayed In dainty vesture? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 Seven attendants round him vying, In a lighter vesture plying, Four with skirts, and other three Tunic'd short from waist to knee. Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse So spoke she, and wrapping her head in her gray vesture, the goddess moaning sore sank in the river depth. The Aeneid of Virgil As Ráma spake, his eyes were bent Upon a hermit settlement With light of heavenly lore endued, With sacred grass and vesture strewed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Oswald Langdon's living, corporeal presence would seem as one long dead, whose reëmbodied spirit had been clothed anew with vesture of flesh. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Now in flower'd vesture, green and gay, Lovelier each succeeding day; Soon from her face shall pass away, Each trace of Winter's mourning. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such a vesture of their thought and experience as they were meditating. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American He was magnificently dressed in some vesture that had the luster of a polished plate of gold, and the suppleness of velvet. Edison's Conquest of Mars Her vesture, bright as burning gold, Gave to the wind each glittering fold, Fair as a gilded cloud that gleams Touched by the Day-God's tempered beams. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse 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.” Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Now, each was clad in a vesture light, That floated far behind, With sandals of frozen water drops, And wings of painted wind. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians How many times he laid his eager hand On her bright form, or on her vesture fair; But her white robes, and their vermilion band, Deceived his touch, and passed away like air. Gryll Grange The vesture of the master of ceremonies who officiated in the Sanctuary of the Phœnix, one of the mythical temples of Dhappa, is a property derived from the same quarter. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer From her fair neck her scarf she drew, And down the glittering vesture flew. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The vesture may be different, but the wearer is the same. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Explain what pictures these phrases make for you: "sunset's flame"; "spruce boughs glow and pale"; "tumult dire"; "beautiful In vesture"; "muffled step"; "radiant shrines." Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Our heroes nervously obeyed the order, and confided their outer vesture to Aspinall’s custody. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton All that he does and brings to pass is the vesture of a book.—Carlyle, Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Within his bower securely barred, With monsters round her for a guard, Still in her silken vesture clad Lies Sítá, and her heart is sad. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It was love which made Him assume the vesture of human flesh. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. In that one hour the "muddy vesture" of common feeling and desire that closed in his manhood had taken fire and burnt to a pure flame, fusing, so it seemed, body and soul. Marriage à la mode When I touch the flying vesture, 'Tis the gray robe of the rain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Taller by almost half a head than the others, his richer vesture and arms, but, above all, the gold collar about his neck and the gold bracelets upon his arms, marked the chief. The Lion's Brood I saw her silken vesture rent And stripped of every ornament, Thus, O my father, fled the time: Forgive, I pray, the heedless crime.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse And two knights came and drew his hunting dress from about him, and clothed him in a vesture of silk and gold. The Mabinogion Vol. 3 In this way a man may be honored even in something external; for instance in his vesture, his image, or his messenger. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition They are too naked, unrelated, and cosmic; too little clad with the vesture of human associations. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called the Word of God. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity He then visits Kishkindhá where he enters into alliance with Báli the King of the Vánars: “We will have all things in common,” says Rávaṇ, “dames, sons, cities and kingdoms, food, vesture, and all delights.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He mistook the material vesture for the spirit, thought that there were formulas for composition, royal roads to the heaven of Bach and Mozart. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Wherever the eye can pierce their white vesture, all is still deep spring-green beneath; unchanged at heart—strong and true. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Myriads were they born, and all In vesture heavenly clad, and heavenly gems; Yet more divine their native semblance, rich With all the gifts of grace and youth and beauty. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems In this vesture of time is wrapped the immortal nature: in this show of circumstance and form stands revealed the stupendous reality. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Receive these vestures rich and rare, These costly gems and jewels fair, And to thy uncle here present Each precious robe and ornament. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Never before have I known her seized with a desire for such prodigality of vesture. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico He thus exhorts His followers, “Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the promptings of your evil and corrupt desires.” The Advent of Divine Justice Know of a certainty that the ornament of life is to be arrayed with the vesture of praiseworthy conduct and be attired with the crown of goodly deeds. Bahíyyih Khánum It is Satan attempting to clothe himself in the angelic vesture of light. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Robe the tabernacles of divine unity with the vesture of holiness, and set upon my head the crown of Thy favor. Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá On her right sat Menkau-Ra, crowned and robed in royal vesture, and on her left Anemen-Ha in his priestly garments of snowy linen. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension He was magnificently dressed in some vesture that had the lustre of a polished plate of gold, with the suppleness of velvet. Edison's Conquest of Mars Meanwhile its outward vesture is full of art and beauty. Platform Monologues Then came a day of warm rain, that washed away the last fragment of earth's cast-off vesture, and bathed her pure for the new adornment that was to be laid upon her. Faith Gartney's Girlhood The robe of sanctity is sullied by the people of deceit: Where is the vesture of Thy holiness, O Adorner of the worlds? Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá "Walk in, Miss," he replied most civilly, and in I walked through the door, past the sweetest little embryonic, who wore the vesture of a young policeman. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) If at some future time these co-ordinate into a body of doctrine I will take care to clothe that body in the vesture of print and paper. Lore of Proserpine It looks as if invading the heavens with its colossal form; and at such times it wears a vesture of glory. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Observe the lily, and the rose, To toil and spin they ne’er were given; Yet God on them a robe bestows, More rich than monarch’s vesture even. The Poetry of Wales And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. Westminster Sermons with a Preface "He stands among musicians in his faultless vesture, a noble from head to foot." For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music I was far from the time when I could connect them, see that poetry was the vesture of religion, the woven garment whereby we see God. Lore of Proserpine Hedged in by "his muddy vesture of decay," his eyes, like the eyes of the disciples of Emmaus, are holden, and only in faith he feels Him. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc When one we love dies, we hope to see them in another state, and half expect that the agency of mind will inform its new garb in imitation of its decayed earthly vesture. The Last Man And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. Westminster Sermons with a Preface "Oh, who is the one with a heart, but almost wishes to cast off this muddy vesture of decay, to be admitted to the joy of listening to the celestial harmony!" Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States And so the accounts of fairy appearance, of fairy shape, size, vesture, will vary in the measure of the faculty of the percipient. Lore of Proserpine No longer is their vesture white and virginal; now they bloom as a matron and a queen, gloriously arrayed in a seamless robe of purple heather. Tales of the Ridings He kept his word; and for fear thieves might discover and steal the valuable crucifix, he hid it beneath his vesture and carried it to the mainland. Tales of the Chesapeake They all shall wax old, like a garment, and as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed. Westminster Sermons with a Preface Face and form were frontiersman; vesture, clerical; but Old Calamity trotted back to the Range cabin. The Freebooters of the Wilderness In winter their vesture is yellow, in summer it is ash-green. Lore of Proserpine One of the greatest of all the idolatries of appearance is our constant habit of judging one another by the attractiveness of the bodily vesture. Among Famous Books In outward vesture merely, and that not for long. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Her gaze swept quite past him, ascended to the pitying brown eyes in her mother's portrait; and though she grew white as her Undine vesture, and he saw her shudder, her voice was unshaken. Infelice On the contrary, All synonyms united with each other are redundant, as when we say, "vesture clothing." Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition We cherish the hope that everyone may be adorned with the vesture of true wisdom, the basis of the government of the world. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas Erelong these outward trappings, these visible treasures, these earthly vanities, these arrayed armies, these adorned vestures, these proud and overweening souls, all shall pass into the confines of the grave, as though into that box. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts How far were their thoughts from his when their words recalled to him the prophecy they were unconsciously fulfilling,—"They part My garments among them, and upon My vesture do they cast lots." A Life of St. John for the Young If Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like a lily of the field, the angels of heaven have no vesture more ethereal than the flower of the orchid. About Orchids A Chat Shorn are the branches of the Tree of Thy unity of the vesture of Thy majesty and wisdom; where is the spring-time of Thy gifts and bounties? Prayers and Meditations Well is it with him who is illumined with the light of courtesy and is attired with the vesture of uprightness. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas Green as the tender leaves but newly born, Their vesture was, the which, by wings as green Beaten, they drew behind them, fann'd in air. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 We have revealed unto you raiment to conceal your shame, and splendid vesture, but the raiment of restraint from evil, that is best. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the promptings of your evil and corrupt desires. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh But if men of their quality wore such vesture what wonder if the younger men in those days were not more freakish than they in the matter of clothing? The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes What! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded? McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader If thou doubt my truth, Approach; and with thy hands thy vesture's hem Stretch forth, and for thyself confirm belief. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 The mass of her silken hair fell all about her like a vesture of gold, and she threw herself at the king's feet, embracing his knees with a passionate gesture of appeal. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster This twofold distinction conferred upon him hath cleansed away from his heart the rust of every vain desire, and made him worthy of the vesture with which his Creator hath deigned to clothe him. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Then looked he for the secret mark on his vesture that Kriemhild had worked. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Well is it with him who hath adorned himself with the vesture of seemly conduct and a praiseworthy character. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas "Crowned with olive over a white veil a Lady appeared to me, vestured in hue of living flame under a green mantle." Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 To him, Saint Kiaranus, smiling, said, "This my nakedness shall soon receive its alleviation, for there is a cloak for me under the vesture of mine elder Senanus." The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints We are about to pity the ragged vesture, the feeble knees, and the beseeching hand of poverty, and the cries of the oppressed and the weary; but, at a thought, Pity is slain by Reverence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 For she was clad in vesture more shining than the flame of fire, and with twisted armlets and glistering earrings of flower-fashion. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Clothed in immortal vesture, the brothers now stand before that Great White Throne, which has no shadow, but is built of Light inaccessible, and full of Glory. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Kind souls! what, weep you, when you but behold Our Cæsar's vesture wounded? The Art of Public Speaking Without delay the king freed her, and further presented his vesture to the servant of God. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints She is all glorious within, whether or not her vesture is of gold, for she is a King's Daughter. Paradoxes of Catholicism This brings to his hand buckskins in plenty, and his own ingenuity is the fashion-plate by which they are manufactured into wearable and comfortable vesture. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself A scarf in the shape of the letter Y, forming part of the vesture of a Roman Catholic prelate. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science He was a small, spare man, with a face almost as white as the vesture of his holy office. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance An immortal soul, even while clothed in "this muddy vesture of decay," is in the eye of God and reason, a purer essence than the brightest sun that lights the depths of heaven. The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 Spring was now clad in her deepest-coloured vesture: and a prospect of a fine summer and an abundant harvest infused additional delight into the beholder. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One And besides the name written on His vesture and his thigh, He bears a name which no man knoweth but Himself. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII They will be folded up as a vesture, and they "shall be changed." Among the Forces 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. Bunker Bean It is there in virtue of the vesture of humanity in which it is clothed, and makes its appeal at once and directly. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 She was clad in no vesture of gold, but in sober black velvet. In the Days of Poor Richard The vesture which we formerly wore gives us no solicitude. Catharine It was enveloped in thick darkness, and covered with hair and moss forming its grassy vesture. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 There was a judge with a full-bottomed wig, a scarlet and ermine vesture, there was a jury of prosperous shopkeepers, retired half pay officers, a hotelkeeper or two, a journalist, an architect, and a builder. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement To enjoy a more extended gaze upon the clouds, those gorgeous vestures of the sun, Constance had ascended, by a winding path, to the edge of a steep cliff overhanging the river. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 She sat up in bed and drew her dressing-gown about her as though it were the vesture of despair. A Hoosier Chronicle Scattered throughout the lowly places, with meekness it seems to shed beauty over its surroundings, and compensate for gaudy vesture by cheerful contentment. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Another day in sable vesture clad, All drear with new blown pleasures blighted, Comes blindly groping through the twilight sad, As one in moonless mists benighted. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl His strength lay less in the form and vesture of the thought than in the thought itself, in the large, simple, practical view which he took of the position. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 By the afternoon train came Adrian, impeccably vestured and feverish with excitement. Jaffery But that child," whispered the woman, "with his strange vesture and his wonderful face. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy Already the foliage of them seemed a little tattered and thin, and their meagreness of vesture and solitary appearance depressed the spectator again before she arrived at them. Children of the Mist Their concern was not with his mortal vesture, but with the liberated soul, which now watched over their world. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) In doing so, he jerked up Mr. Ziegler’s elbow, and the remains of the beer flew up and baptised Mr. Ziegler’s face and vesture. The Lion's Share 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. The Way of a Man The beauty of this vesture had been somewhat tarnished by age and neglect, and wore that dingy look which marble contracts from exposure. The Consolation of Philosophy If I did weave some clout Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now He wore in childhood? The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse The storm, breaking out afresh, catches up and dashes him to the ground, while the vesture, which he had let slip during his last musings, recedes swiftly from his sight. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Her wise And lulling words are yet about the room, Her presence wholly poured upon the gloom Down even to her vesture's creeping stir. The Poetry Of Robert Browning And yet Love ever essays the task of seeking out the psychic wearer beneath the corporeal vesture—often with plaintive strife. Hints for Lovers But if the vesture of his state from such a one thou tear, Thou'lt see what load of secret bonds this lord of earth doth wear. The Consolation of Philosophy The play opened by the entrance of the chorus, white vestured and gold filleted, under the leadership of Miss Kinnaird, whose fine gestures and rhythmic movements were quite admirable. Reviews "The bodily nature of things is a concealing outward vesture." The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry For as he looked at the minister the fashion of his vesture was changed. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War But the vesture of the agent only would thus be revealed, not the agent itself. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 But soon there advanced an elderly man, who said gravely, 'Thou hast stolen this child; her vesture alone is worth a hundred drachmas. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson They would have looked very imposing, were it not, that in rear their vesture was sadly disordered. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Mad and crazy revelers, how ye drank and roared! but kings no more: vestures loosed; and scepters rolling on the ground. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I She was dressed to-night in a filmy vesture of opalescent or pearly white, partly diaphanous, and having a deep fringe of gold. A Trip to Venus In a day like this truth must change its vesture. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) For these great minds the "muddy vesture" is worn thin by thought, and they hear the immortal music. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher "Prayer!" was the haughty answer; "with the eyes that I see in that glass, and this vesture meet for a queen, I lack no doubting prayer!" Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 The relatives were wailing, and cutting themselves with shells, so that blood flowed, and spotted their vesture. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The governor used him kindly, and presented him with a handsome vesture; but nothing was effected in the business on which he went, the Turks not performing their promise. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 It is good to be clothed with the immortal vesture of the resurrection, and in that to be like Christ. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) But Browning found "harmony in immortal souls, spite of the muddy vesture of decay." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher "He hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords." The Last Reformation The Mahometans use long loose vestures both of silk and cloth, most having hose or trowsers of cotton, and white shoes or slippers. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 He, though naked, yet kept the robe of Christ; you, clad in your silks, have lost the vesture of Christ. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries His numbers wore the vesture of the age, But, 'neath it beating, the great heart was heard. The Poems of William Watson He recognizes his life as nothing but a day at school, and his physical body as a temporary vesture assumed for the purpose of learning through it. A Textbook of Theosophy Gifted enough to tread down every enemy, lovely enough to gladden woman's heart, with glittering vesture and with godlike crown reverenced he might have been by servile crowds! Sacred Books of the East It may be that this superstition arose from the consideration that the body and lower vestures of the Soul were shed off and gradually absorbed by the lower creation in the alchemical processes of nature. Simon Magus A king every inch of him, though without the trappings of a king; in a Spartan simplicity of vesture. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History A lifeless body seemed to him only an old vesture that had been cast aside. Robert Browning And some are travel-worn, their eyes are dim, They touch His shining vesture as they pass, But see not--even darkly through a glass-- How sweet might be their trembling gifts to Him. Quiet Talks with World Winners If thou doubt my truth, Approach; and with thy hands thy vesture's hem Stretch forth, and for thyself confirm belief. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life It is their mother-tongue, the formal vesture of their inmost thoughts and sentiments. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech 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. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History But who is this that from the misty cloud Of immemorial years, Wrapped in the vesture of his vaporous shroud With solemn steps appears? Poems Mr. Yeats still gives some of his songs the old embroidered vesture. Old and New Masters Now the moon is up in beauty, Walking on a starry hight, While her trailing vesture brightens The gray hollows of the night. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland The thought relations in this deeper level have no specific linguistic vesture; the rhythms are free, not bound, in the first instance, to the traditional rhythms of the artist’s language. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Garment of God, Living, Living Nature, so called by Goethe, nature being viewed by him as the garment, or vesture, with which God invests Himself so as to reveal and impart Himself to man. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Nature here offers herself to his contemplation clothed in the splendid vesture of tropical vegetation. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation And when she was come in, Crysant reproved her of the pride of her vesture. The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome Every field is newly vestured in young corn or the olive greenness of wheat; the smell of the earth is full of sweetness. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The child Mary, sometimes in a blue, but oftener in a white vesture, with long golden hair, ascends the steps which lead to the porch of the temple, which steps are always fifteen in number. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts 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. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He found "harmony in immortal souls, spite of the muddy vesture of decay." Mysticism in English Literature But he passed quickly from the music to those incomparable words of which the music was the mere vehicle and vesture. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little "All we see is but the vesture of God, and what we call laws of nature are but attributes of Deity." George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy So let me assure the unknown gentleman in the woollen vesture that the only point of a white shirt-front is that it is a white shirt-front. All Things Considered Very fresh and slender showed the lady in her vesture of spotless linen. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Her body was sleek and sinuous in its silken vesture; arms and shoulders were startlingly white; and when she turned, facing Aldous, her black eyes flashed fires of deviltry and allurement. The Hunted Woman The foot-hills approach the river, crowned with a vesture of evergreen pines. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park They shall fade away; they shall be removed as a vesture, and like a garment they shall be rolled up. Essays in Rebellion From them I firmly believe they may derive sufficient rules whereby to separate in foreign books the true from the false, the necessary from the accidental, the eternal truth from its peculiar national vesture. Literary and General Lectures and Essays These did as they were bidden, and arrayed in their sweetest vesture, presently entered in the hall, holding each other by the hand. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France His long white beard and searching eyes imparted to him an air of masterful dignity, which was increased by his tabardlike vesture and the heraldic barret cap with triple plume which bespoke his office. The White Company In a griffin-drawn chariot appears one whose brows are bound with olive, who is veiled in white, and mantled in green, and robed in a vesture that is coloured like live fire. Intentions They walk through rivers fully clothed, and shake their vesture as a dog his coat; or are hydrophobic for their skins, fearing to wash lest they disturb essential oils. Essays in Rebellion The pearl of great price thou hast divided, and the vesture without seam thou hast parted asunder. Essays and Lectures So she showed him of the chapel, and of the hollow stone, and of how to spoil the Were-Wolf of his vesture. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France He believes that he cannot live without splendour and luxury; he regards a noble mansion, elegant vesture, horses, equipage, and an ample establishment, as things without which he must be hopelessly miserable. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author For him, a body from which the soul had passed, held nothing of the person whose earthly vesture it had been. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Christ Himself has written on His vesture and on His thigh King of Kings and Lord of Lords, so that without writing the royal ornaments of the Omnipotent cannot be made perfect. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Arriving here, upon the dawn of light, For yet some stars were glimmering in the skies, Approaching him, in foreign vesture dight, Along the shore, a damsel he espies. Orlando Furioso After she had learned his secret, she prayed and entreated the more as to whether he ran in his raiment, or went spoiled of vesture. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France At the moment of the Revolution every one, according to his aspirations, dressed the new belief in a different rational vesture. The Psychology of Revolution 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. The Golden Age Within, were splendid altars and the appealing charms of incense, fine vestures and fine music; while from the belfreys, bells sweet and resonant called to the savages, who paused spell-bound and half-afraid to listen. Remember the Alamo Lo! who in priestly vesture clad, is crowned With purple hat, conferred in hallowed dome! Orlando Furioso If I should lose my raiment, or even be marked as I quit my vesture, then a Were-Wolf I must go for all the days of my life. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Christianity was thought to consist wholly in the observance of certain holy-days, rites, fasts, and vestures. The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 In that truce the longest and last of all, In the summer nights of that festival— Soft vesture of samite and silken pall— The beginning came of the ending. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Everybody else, from the Mayor to the washerwoman, shone in new vesture according to means; but Henchard had doggedly retained the fretted and weather-beaten garments of bygone years. The Mayor of Casterbridge Ha, ha! you cannot find the lighter out For all the blue smoke's pantomimic gesture— His name or nature, sex or age or vesture! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 She told her that since it was time to get her from bed, she would make ready her vesture. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Do they not raise, for some pieces of silver, the vesture of chastity, that robe so full of mystery, that seems to respect the being it embellishes and surrounds without touching? The Confession of a Child of the Century Must the fairy herself—Euphrosyne—come to such a muddy vesture in the end? Delia Blanchflower And then he was glad he had found the straw hat with the youthful ribbon, and all his other festal vestures. The Gentleman from Indiana The Bishop had suffered much during the preceding months—in his affections, his fatherly feeling toward his clergy, in his sense of the affront offered to Christ's seamless vesture of the Church. The Case of Richard Meynell Straightway the King demanded the vesture of his baron, whether this were to the wish of the lady, or whether it were against her wish. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France We hear thee coming, with the flute's refrain, With fruit of ivy on thy forehead bound, Thy saffron vesture streaming to the ground. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse Soul of mine, hadst thou caught and held By the hem of the vesture…. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare The brown locks were gathered up, wreathing the small head like a coronet; aerial lace and silken vesture shimmered in the light, and became her well. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 He thought of Meynell, of the eager refinement, the clean idealism, the visionary kindness of the man—and compared it with the "muddy vesture," mental and physical, of Meynell's accuser. The Case of Richard Meynell Very desirable was the lady; passing tender of body, and sweet of vesture, coiffed and fretted with gold. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France A long, loose mantle to his ankles played,— Such vesture did his lucent shape enfold: His left hand bore the vocal lyre, all made Of gleaming shell and gold. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse He came from no "muddy vesture of decay;" no mere life-creating fiat spoke him into existence. Life: Its True Genesis And over herself she dropped a vesture of joy to greet him when he should step forth. Bride of the Mistletoe The sensual shall wear the shaggy vesture of the goat, or foam and whet his horrid tusks, a wild and untame'd boar. Imogen A Pastoral Romance From her they took her palfrey and her vesture, even to the shift. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Now rested on the solid earth, And sober was her vesture; She seldom either grief or mirth Expressed, by word or gesture; Composed, sedate, and firm she stood, And looked industrious, calm, and good. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader As out of the dead past springs the eternally living present, so from the "muddy vesture of decay" spring all the marvellous powers of reproduction with which nature was endowed from the beginning. Life: Its True Genesis Isaias saith, 'That, in their own land, each one must be clad In twofold vesture; and their proper lands this delicious life.' The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3 He was to all appearance unarmed, and had no protection save a light chain mail jacket of bright steel, which was worn over his vesture, and not concealed as was the custom. The Strong Arm And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 8 The kingdom passes; the king remains; or rather is it the royalty alone which subsists—that is to say, the idea—the personality begin in its turn merely the passing vesture of the permanent idea? Amiel's Journal Most fortunately: he hath achiev'd a maid That paragons description, and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And, in the essential vesture of creation, Does bear all excellency. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, "a writing on their vestures which nobody knew". Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Bare-headed, gowned in white, she girt up her vesture and dipped her white limbs in the pool. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution It is because He wears a vesture dipped in blood, that 'on the vesture is the name written "King of kings, and Lord of lords." Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Indeed, the loveliness of his spirit shone through the bodily vesture, and his smile itself was a blessing which one might seek to win, and be proud to have gained by one's exertions. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis So, and only so, will God's Spirit fill our hearts, God's brightness flash in our faces, and the vesture of heaven clothe our nakedness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke They parted My garments among them, and upon My vesture did they cast lots. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord Man has been described as a tool-making animal, but the burnous effectually counteracts that wholesome tendency; it is a mummifying vesture, a step in the direction of fossilification. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia But whatever end or transformation, or unveiling may happen, that which creates beauty must have beauty in its essence, and the soul must cast off many vestures before it comes to itself. Imaginations and Reveries Deep in her dove-like soul lay the fiercest views about Dissent—that rent in the seamless vesture of Christ, as she had learnt to consider it. The History of David Grieve His servants have to follow His example, to put aside the needless vesture and brace themselves with the symbol of service. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke There she would embroider a cross on his vesture that Hagan might protect him in the shock of battle. National Epics The King of Kings who rides forth conquering is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV We remember that with Dante, the image of a woman became at last the purified vesture of his spirit through which the mysteries were revealed. Imaginations and Reveries This is the lesson of these two clauses—misdirected confidence in creatures strips a man of much beauty of character, and true faith in God adorns a soul with a leafy vesture of loveliness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah That divine gift coming down as a vesture, wraps and covers and hides their own weakness, their own naked and poor personality. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Think of the ultimate certain defeat of all antagonisms; of that last campaign when He goes forth with the 'name written on His vesture and on His thigh "King of kings and Lord of lords." Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Condemned by her rank to wear rich clothing, she values only the glorious vesture of the soul, which is grace. Purgatory We can live through years in the dreams of a night; so swiftly can spirit move when even partially freed from 'this muddy vesture of decay.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms And after the thought of death the most familiar thought is the decay of the bodily vesture. Memoirs of My Dead Life Such harmony is in immortal souls, But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grosly close in it, we cannot hear it. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies In miracle God makes bare His arm,' that we may be sure of its operation when it is draped and partially hid, as by a vesture, by second causes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII He was strangely vestured; silver and gold gleamed in his raiment, and a large cross was outlined upon his back. Purgatory And on the other side, 'He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God, and they that were with Him were called, and chosen, and faithful.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms GOD will introduce those who shall believe, and act righteously, into gardens through which rivers flow: they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and pearls; and their vestures therein shall be silk. The Koran (Al-Qur'an) But because man rebelled against God, this truth was not fulfilled, and therefore He descended to the greatest depths to which descent is possible, when Deity assumed the vesture of our humanity. Letters of Catherine Benincasa And they crucified Him, and parted His garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted My garments among them, and upon My vesture did they cast lots. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII But the world can afford to live without solving this doubt, and leave his perishing vesture of decay to its repose. Our Hundred Days in Europe With Wordsworth, or rather with the great Apostle to the Gentiles, he held that Nature is but the vesture of God, beneath which may be discerned the divine glory and love. Poets of the South She was robed With vesture of embroidered silk. Malayan Literature The grand chancellor is known by his crimson vesture. Venetian Life The only thing to be done was 'as a vesture' to 'fold it up' and shape a new garment out of new cloth. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII They all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be cleansed. Discipline and Other Sermons It is truth itself, only in a mythical, allegorical vesture. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. Not that way, child," he laughed; "My vesture thou hast wet. Malayan Literature After this are presented other vestures for the ornament of the Mosquita. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II For she said in herself: If I may touch but even his vesture only I shall be safe. The first New Testament printed in English The trees, in this delicate white vesture, standing up against a dark blue sky, looked like the glorified spirits of trees. A Romance of the Republic Poor Miss O'Dwyer was arrayed—'gowned,' she would have said herself in reporting the scene—in vesture not wanting in splendour, but which beside Miss Goold's could not catch the eye. Hyacinth And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood…. The Bars of Iron Merlin put forth his arts, and transfigured their faces and vesture into the likeness of the earl and his people. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut To fulfil that was spoken by the prophet: They divided my garments among them: and upon my vesture have cast lots. The first New Testament printed in English Alas, Farewell, and Nevermore sighed from those hollow cheeks, those woebegone eyes, those pallid lips, that willow-like long hair, and the sad vesture of the forsaken Dido. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Anon after this, by God's commandment, Moses took Aaron upon the hill, and despoiled him of his vesture, and clothed therewith his son Eleazar, and made him upperest bishop for his father Aaron. Bible Stories and Religious Classics He tames, and he clothes them with attributes of flesh and blood, till they wonder at themselves, like Indian Islanders forced to submit to European vesture. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Not one of these pages but served in a vesture of ermine. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood xij. years, came behind him and touched the hem of his vesture. The first New Testament printed in English The Ottoman vesture has waxed old, and something can be discerned of the new forms that are emerging from beneath it; their outstanding features are worth our attention. Turkey: a Past and a Future With no less celerity his followers, the Goth and the Christian excepted, disencumbered themselves of their exterior vesture, and stood forward in the character of Roman soldiers. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales Temptations will never cease to attack the soul as long as it inhabits this "muddy vesture of decay." How to Live a Holy Life Their heads were tired in their fairest hennins, and they walked in their most holiday vesture. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture. The first New Testament printed in English For surely earth cannot present, nor unassisted fancy conceive, an object more profoundly significant of divine majesty than these mountains in their linen vesture of everlasting snow. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 His snowy vesture's hem descending low His golden sandals swept, and pure as snow New-fallen shone the mitre on his brow. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton All the rest is vesture, covering, organs, instrument, which the living man, the real man, uses for the purpose of his present existence. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Marvellously dainty was the maiden in person and vesture; right queenly of bearing, passing sweet and ready of tongue. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the word of God. The first New Testament printed in English The royal purple of Thy garment died, From Bozrah, is spread over even me, All my unworthiness, my want I hide Under Thy princely vesture shelteringly. Verses and Rhymes By the Way Thus the scripture was fulfilled: They parted my raiment among them and, for my vesture, they did cast lots. All Four Gospels for Readers The Guru neither eats nor drinks, neither lives nor dies: Neither has He form, line, colour, nor vesture. Songs of Kabir His hauberk was stout and richly chased, even such a vesture as became so puissant a king. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut And hath on his vesture and on his thigh: king of kings, and lord of lords. The first New Testament printed in English To these her care added some of the vestures which lay torn and scattered on the floor. The Abbot But the dull and the gross, who only suffer and endure, the muddy vesture of decay closes them in and they cannot hear it. Without Prejudice Booty exceeding great they bore Of sheep and kine and vesture and of other wealth good store. The Lay of the Cid "The holy places, vestures, gestures—the shows and outward greatness of false religion, are in danger." Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 And have compassion on some, separating them: and other save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, and hate the filthy vesture of the flesh. The first New Testament printed in English And so the One Ray expanding lives in many vestures. AE in the Irish Theosophist Thus the scripture was fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots. The Gospel of John for Readers I tell you that the very vesture which men compel Truth to wear, is lined and stiffened with lies! Dreams and Dream Stories Here, say they, is nothing said of those places, vestures, gestures, shows, and outward greatness that we think seemly to be found in and with those that worship Jesus. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 They all shall wax old as doth a garment: and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. The first New Testament printed in English Here was a hero out of the remote, antique, giant ages come among us, wearing but on the surface the vesture of our little day. AE in the Irish Theosophist By virtue of this quality, purple served from antiquity for the vesture of those who have reached the highest stage of human development for their time. Man or Matter Your costume, loose and light, Leaves unconcealed your might Of muscle, half suspected, half defined; And falling well aside, Your vesture opens wide, Above your splendid sunburnt throat that pulses unconfined. Flint and Feather Breathless and reeling, his vesture torn, his great wounds bleeding, he found himself on the shore where the fountain of immortality sprang up. The Story Girl And whithersoever he entered into the towns, or cities, or villages, they laid their sick in the streets, and prayed him, that they might touch and it were but the edge of his vesture. The first New Testament printed in English Save for this vesture the light of illusion fell from him. AE in the Irish Theosophist If the body be but a vesture clothing the soul, as the Buddist asserts, it is not improbable that it may occasionally change its vesture. The Book of Were-Wolves Has not the purple of her vesture's lining Brought calm and rest to all? Flint and Feather Wilt thou help us to embody the Divine Spirit of that Religion in a new Mythus, in a new vehicle and vesture, that our Souls, otherwise too like perishing, may live? Ardath The spaces that were not piled high with vesture gave resting spots for cardboard boxes and packing-paper. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Yet—once God or Angel— that past remains, and the Ray, returning on itself, may reassume its old vesture, remains, entering as a God into the Ancestral Self. AE in the Irish Theosophist He stands among musicians in his faultless vesture, a noble from head to foot. Chopin : the Man and His Music Generally speaking, he is repulsive as to hat, abhorrent as to vesture, squalid of boot, and in tout ensemble unseemly and atrocious. The Fiend's Delight |
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