14 examples of gaberdines in sentences

" His followers all he bade them dress in Christian array, With rude and rustic mantles of color bright and gay; With silken streamers in their caps, their caps of pointed crown, With flowing blouse, and mantle and gaberdine of brown.

The name of valor is not thine, Thou hast a coward's name; And lay aside thy mantle fair Thy veil and gaberdine, And boast no more of gold and gems

An old grey-beard and the frost so keen: I shall give him my fur-lined gaberdine.

" He stripped off his gaberdine of scarlet And wrapped it round the aged varlet, Who clutched at the folds with a muttered curse, Quaking and chattering seven times worse.

Zounds, and grief come in there; and I see Him once, I'll conjure his gaberdine.

The Christian seems anxious, and in want, while the unbelievers wear their gaberdines with a looser air than is usual.

There were present the curious citizen in his, cloak and cap, bare-legged laborers in wondering awe, the circumspect Hebrew in his gaberdine and beard, masked gentlemen, and many an attentive stranger from among the thousands who still frequented that declining mart.

He spread out the skirts of his gaberdine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses.

A pox a peace, it keeps our Ancient whole, but s'hart our gaberdines go to wrack.

Though Lemberg's cafes were gay enough and the old Jews in gaberdines, with the orthodox curl dangling before each ear, dozed peacefully on the park benches, still the Russians were only a few hours' motor drive to the eastward, and next morning we went out to see them.

It is partly the result of national and religious feeling: Antonio has spit on the Jewish gaberdine; and the oath of revenge has been sworn by the Jewish Sabbath.

Thus the eye is startled to behold a fur headdress as big as a busby, an ordinary service tunic, gaberdine breeches, shooting stockings and Shackleton boots, going about as component parts of one officer's make-up; or snow-goggles worn with flannel trousers, or sharp-toothed Boreas defied by a bare head and a chamois-leather jerkin; or the choice flowers of Savile Row associated with Canadian moccasins.

Their horses are caparisoned with orange-coloured taffeta, while they themselves are habited in gaberdines of the same stuff.

"The Jewish gaberdine is gradually dropping off; I mean the dinginess of your early complexion.

14 examples of  gaberdines  in sentences