Lamb had gone for a surgeon; the maid was running about distraught, with dry clothes on one arm, and the dripping habiliments of the involuntary bather in the other.

" Amabel suffered herself to be led into another room, where she saw several sumptuous female habiliments, and selecting the least showy of them, was soon arrayed in it by the officious attendant.

Conscious of the heroic inside of the noble Quixote, who, on hearing that his withered person was passing, would have stepped over his threshold to gaze upon his forlorn habiliments, and the "strange bed-fellows which misery brings a man acquainted with?"

Petruchio, having dispatched the tailor and haberbasher, proceeds "Well, come my Kate: we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;"p.

Petruchio, having dispatched the tailor and haberbasher, proceeds "Well, come my Kate: we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;"p.

There appeared at the door a figure which drew a stare of surprise from Markeld, accustomed as he was to eccentric habiliment.

She made up her mind that he was singularly handsome, although she could not judge of that very clearly for he wore a heavy mustache, and a shade over one eye; but he was tall, above the average, and carried the elaborate habiliments which the Cavaliers still affected, with consummate grace and ease.

I would have been stupid, indeed, not to have seen that, but somehow you seemed remote from everyday habiliments and workday New Yorksomehow inseparable from silencesuntil to-daywhen you came singing Invictus.

And thus equipped, they come on shore the most grotesque objects imaginable, each highly delighted with her gaudy habiliments.

As soon as the Bucentaur was in its station, some thirty or forty gondoliers were brought forth, clad in their gayest habiliments, and surrounded and supported by crowds of anxious friends and relatives.

Bassompierre, the volatile and restless Bassompierre, the hero of the Court dames, and the idol of the Court ballets, favours the seclusion of a prison; there is space enough for him in the one which he has selected, and his gorgeous habiliments will produce the happiest effect when contrasted with the gloomy walls of the good old fortress.

I would have been stupid, indeed, not to have seen that, but somehow you seemed remote from everyday habiliments and workday New Yorksomehow inseparable from silencesuntil to-daywhen you came singing Invictus.

First, when he laid aside the sad raiment of his calling, and put on his khaki habiliments of war, he thought that the chief part of his job was to shrive the soldier before action, and to comfort the dying.

Before you thought of spring, Except as a surmise, You see, God bless his suddenness, A fellow in the skies Of independent hues, A little weather-worn, Inspiriting habiliments Of indigo and brown.

A fourth contained male and female habiliments, spread out like the dresses in a theatrical wardrobe.

Thou still art opposite in disposition; A more obscure servile habiliment Beseems this enterprise.

Glances of recognition were exchanged, and instantly in place of the ratcatcher stood a tall, swarthy, corpulent, elderly man, with the majestic yet sensual features of Alexander the Sixth, accoutred with the official habiliments and insignia of a Pope, who rose slowly into the air as though he had been inflated with hydrogen.

They do some things better in England; a man cast for any particular rôle in life, for example, is apt to conform himself, mentally, physically, and even as to his outer habiliments, so nicely to the mould that he is forever unmistakably what he is even to the most casual observer.

They may give it a sanction perhaps: it will still be immutably the same, and, though dressed in the outward habiliments of honour, will still be intrinsically base.

Their clothing was supplied by nature, being solely the primitive habiliments worn in Eden before the fall.

Since I have been on the plantation I have already spent considerable time in what the French call 'confectioning' baby bundles, i.e. the rough and very simple tiny habiliments of coarse cotton and scarlet flannel which form a baby's layette here, and of which I have run up some scores; but my present task was far more difficult.

The utmost strictness of literal translation is a poor compensation for the resultant poverty of language and dilution of thought; and by as much as the original is more impressive in its rich and fitting garb, by so much the more is it made to appear mean and unlike itself when forced to clothe itself in scanty second-hand habiliments.

Thou still art opposite in disposition; A more obscure servile habiliment Beseems this enterprise.

There is no harm, either, if the stuffed figure be given the simulated habiliments of some friend of yours.

Undoubtedly even in these days of more than primitive simplicity and of sober habiliments Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy, butler at Acol Court in the county of Kent, and his henchman, Master Courage Toogood, would have been conspicuous for the shabbiness and poverty of the livery which they wore.