Owing to the steepness of the roads, a crupper is considered necessary and is usually decorated with a broad, embossed panel, from which hang little trappings reminiscent of medieval harness.

I did not take her home to Wood Lynton, but, laying aside all the trappings of wealth and title, we have traveled from place to place as Mr. and Mrs. Charlewood, enjoying our long honeymoon.

The harness of the palfrey was so rich, that no king on earth might hope to buy trappings so precious, unless he sold or set his realm in pledge.

So Chrysostom could never forget that he was a minister of Christ, and was willing to forego the trappings and pleasures of material life sooner than abdicate his position as a spiritual dictator.

I expect by now that I have as good as told you the plotyoung brother caught burgling hero's flat; hero, intrigued by mention of sister, doffing his society trappings, following his captive to crook-land, bashing the wicked inhabitants with his heroic fists, and finally, of course, wedding the sister.

For the archer maiden with both hands fitteth the glittering trappings, and Hermes, god of games, whensoever Hieron to the polished car and bridle-guided wheels yoketh the strength of his steeds, calling on the wide-ruling god, the trident-wielder.

In this exquisite production, he flung from him all the trappings with which his contemporaries had embarrassed the ode.

Willingly at this moment would he have given up the winter trapping to have pursued that golden ignis fatuus of all agesthe lure of gold.

We need Russia even more than Russia needs us; for, while we have grasped the trappings, she possesses the real spirit of democracy.

I still loved the trappings.

He needs no trappings of fictitious fame: The load's too weighty: thou mayest choose Some parts of praise, and some refuse: Write, that his annals may be thought more lavish than the Muse.

He denied that nationality, and offered me his Roman trappings, cuirass and falchion, saying they would help me to money, riot, violence, and vice in the doomed

I have often pitied the lot of the costume novelist, faced with the increasing difficulty of providing fresh and unworn trappings for his characters.

We pulled aside these trappings of gloom, and there were two iron cots, not over a foot and a half wide, about the shape and feeling of an ironing-board, covered with what appeared to be gray army blankets, I looked to see "U.S." stamped on them.

"Here ye have a knight with so lean a purse as scarce to buy him a crust of bread to munch, yet he keeps a band of retainers and puts rich trappings upon his horse's hide, while his own back goeth bare.

At the Arsenal at Tsarskoye Selo we saw the trappings of a horse, bridle, saddle and all the harness, with an immense saddle-cloth, set with tens of thousands of diamonds.

Nor do we find in Cranmer the outspoken and hearty eloquence of Latimer,appealing to the people at St. Paul's Cross to shake off all the trappings of the "Scarlet Mother," who had so long bewitched the world with her sorceries.

Sometimes she is richly apparelled, as befits a queen; anon she sports the motley trappings of a mountebank.

The future lay elsewhere; it was simply the past that survived therein the rich trappings of fashion and wit and elaborate gaietybut still irrevocably the past.

And who knows but that this very path into which my inconsideration has thrown me, strewed as it is with briers and thorns, which tear in pieces my gaudier trappings, may not be the right path to lead me into the great road to my future happiness; which might have been endangered by evil communication?

The horror has now thrown off the trappings and disguise of modern civilisation, and we see it and recoil.

"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.

He admired the musical instruments, the trappings of the horses, and all the things he had never known.

While he was still glowing with the rough intimacy of the towel, he viewed the trappings thrown over the chair and his revolver holster on the bureau in a sense of detachment, as if in the surroundings of civilization some voice of civilization made him wish for flannels in which to dine.

The chiefs were eager to foster trade and cultivate good will, for it brought them pompous trappings as well as useful goods.