10 Metaphors for cloaks

Like beauty marks the dames they serve; Like colors at their spear-heads wave; While Tarfe kneels at Celia's feet, The King is Dorelice's slave. With belts of green and azure blue The gallant knights are girded fair; Their cloaks with golden orange glow, And verdant are the vests they wear.

Their cloaks were cloth of silver mix'd with gold, And garlands green around their temples roll'd: Rich crowns were on their royal scutcheons placed, With sapphires, diamonds, and with rubies graced: And as the trumpets their appearance made, So these in habits were alike array'd;

She was looking rather old and worn, and her cloak was last year's fashion, but good enough for Chicopee, she reflected, as she hurried into the house and stamped the muddy, melting snow from her feet.

These hooded water-proof cloaks, equalizing all womankind,these thick soles and heavy heels, proclaiming themselves with such masculine emphasis on the pavement,these priceless india-rubber boots, emancipating all juvenile femineity from the terrors of mud and snow,all these indicate an approaching era of good sense; for they are the requisite machinery of air, exercise, and health, so far as they go.

I'm sure you are wrong,hold my cloak, sir, Am I not an old friend?

where the lone heron feeds, Where your cloak is a cloud with a lining of blue, And your lover a wind riding over the reeds.

The long circular cloak is another graceful garment that can be worn with charming effect by the woman of classic height, but should never be in the wardrobe of a very tall woman except for use at the opera, when its service is chiefly required in the carriage, or when its wearer is sitting.

Novels used to be pronounced novels; envy envy; a cloak was a clock, to the surprise of an English lady, to whom the maid said, on her leaving the house, "Mem, winna ye tak the clock wi' ye?" The names of children's diseases were a remarkable item in the catalogue of Scottish words:

The clouds rolled away, and he saw the bright morning star fade, as the sable cloak of night was rent to admit the new born day.

Even the cavalryman's cloak is a poor shield against the driving rain, and at night wet straw or a water pool in a trench is not a pleasant kind of bed.

10 Metaphors for  cloaks