They were dark, black-bearded men, strangely dressed, some with fawn-coloured cloaks with broad stripes, others in a scarlet uniform, and they wore cone-shaped scarlet caps.

Sometimes it would be blue with yellow stripes, then green with red stripes, and anon a lovely pink decorated with purple.

The senators, as a badge of distinction, wore upon their tunics a broad purple stripe, and they had the privilege of the best seats in the theatres.

The latus clavus was a tunic, or vest, ornamented with a broad stripe of purple on the fore part, worn by the senators; the knights wore a similar one, only ornamented with a narrower stripe.

It is extremely delicate and prettily formed, and is distinguished by narrow dark-brown stripes along the back.

[Footnote 38: A white toga with horizontal purple stripes.

Presently a brown one, with light-colored stripes and a bluish tail, is seen traveling over the crumbling wall, running into crannies and out again.

I saw her downtown shopping the other day with a sport skirt, very wide scarlet stripes, and a dress hat trimmed with a single pink rosethe most delicate pinkand a light blue feather!

Impossible fish they are, pale blue; brilliant yellow; black as charcoal; sloe, with orange stripes; scarlet, spotted, and barred in rainbow tints.

When I first went aboard the transport I picked up a little gold stripe.

It was built by Shah Jehan of red sandstone inlaid with white marble; is crowned with three splendid domes of white marble striped with black, and at each angle of the courtyard stands a gigantic minaret composed of alternate stripes of marble and red sandstone.

" Red, with a thin green stripe, was the Sedleigh color.

Full proof of this the Country gained; 120 It knows how ye were vexed and strained, And forced unworthy stripes to bear, When trusted to another's care.

A fool who hath, this day, been driven forth of my lord's presence with blows and cruel stripes!

TRICOLOUR, a flag adopted by the French Revolutionists in 1789, and consisting of three vertical stripes, blue, white, and red, the blue next the staff.

LAWES, LEWIS E. Invisible stripes.

"Brutal stripes and all the varied kinds of personal indignities, are not the only species of cruelty which slavery licenses.

But if to this deprivation of liberty, we add the agonizing pangs of banishment; and if to the complicated stings of both, we add the incessant stripes, wounds, and miseries, which are undergone by those, who are sold into this horrid servitude; what crime can we possibly imagine to be so enormous, as to be worthy of so great a punishment?

A village vicar was slain with inconceivable stripes, and his corpse set on fire with frightful jests about a roasted priest.

She had easily discovered a bridesmaid's costume in her wardrobe, bodice with intercrossing stripes, short petticoat in green woolen, mauve stockings, straw hat with artificial flowers, a suspicion of black on the eyelids and of rouge on the cheeks.

wasthe white of barked cotton-wood timber alternating with the brown of earth that filled the spaces betweenlike the longitudinal stripes of a prairie gopher or on the back of a bob-white.

"Certainly they are, dear, and this one had lovely stripes.

There was something funereal in the odor of the flowers, the birds chirped spitefully and at the same time apprehensively, the moon cast malicious yellow stripes of light over the dark murmuring stream, the lofty banks of the Rhine looked like vague, threatening giants' heads.

I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.

They are narrow, thickly-woven silk scarves, six varas in length, with oblique white stripes on a dark-brown ground.