"You would be surprised," said he, "to find how successful they have been in investing their craft with the forms and trappings of science, the parade of classification, and the mystery imparted by technical terms.

"I wondered that a strong-minded man like Dr. Whewell could tolerate such trappings for a moment; but it is said that he is rather proud of them, and loves all the etiquette of the olden time, as also, it is said, does the queen.

It is seldom that a revelation of the inner life of Princes would raise the mind to a higher region than beforealthough we all know that they have an inner and a real life through the tinsels and the trappings in which we see them.

There was a social gathering at a large, elegantly finished and furnished hall, splendidly illuminated with its brilliant gas lights, diffusing a lustre upon gorgeous trappings with which they were surmounted.

1808 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. GOTTFRIED AND ERARDPURSUIT OF A HORSEMANRESCUE OF THE WOUNDED CHEVALIER CHAPTER II TRAPPINGS OF THE HORSEMIDNIGHT ARRIVALCHARACTER OF THE WOUNDED MAN DISCOVEREDHIS NARRATIVEFAMILY WORSHIP CHAPTER III THEOBALD'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CONFLICT WITH ARNOLD THE LIONHATRED OF ENEMIESDISTRESS OF THE FAMILY CHAPTER IV. KINDNESS TO AN ENEMYARNOLD ARRIVES ALIVE, BUT WOUNDEDTHEOBALD'S AMAZEMENT

The soldiers threw on their lances and spears, the musicians their instruments, and others stripped off the cloths and trappings from the furniture of the procession, and heaped them upon the burning pile.

Red was the armor of the knight, red his shield, without any arms or device, and red were the trappings on his horse.

The movement of non-co-operation is nothing but an attempt to isolate the brute force of the British from all the trappings under which it is hidden and to show that brute force by itself cannot for one single moment hold India.

When the academicians decreed a catafalque for Michelangelo's solemn obsequies in S. Lorenzo, they did not aim so much at worldly splendour or gorgeous trappings as at an impressive monument, combining the several arts which he had practised in his lifetime.

If your Holiness has a mind to be diverted like a rational Man, you have a great opportunity for it, in disrobing all the Impertinents you have favour'd, of all their Riches and Trappings at once, and bestowing them on the Humble, the Virtuous, and the Meek.

Juliet, like Portia, is the foster-child of opulence and splendour: she dwells in a fair cityshe has been nurtured in a palaceshe clasps her robe with jewelsshe braids her hair with rainbow-tinted pearls; but in herself she has no more connexion with the trappings around her, than the lovely exotic transplanted from some Eden-like climate, has with the carved and gilded conservatory which has reared and sheltered its luxuriant beauty.