raiment
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And can we not dress him instead in Raiment of Silk, and teach him to dance the Minuet—and, the dance over, bid him bow and be GONE?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Raiment and food enough for me from the King of fair fame, And I to be sitting for a while praying God in every place.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
What need have we of any thing but plain Food and Raiment?
From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de
I do not well understand how this Sentence agrees with that which follows; Is not the Life more than Meat, and the Body than Raiment?
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
Raiment has an extraordinary effect on the whole machinery of life.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
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