vesture
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Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
With that, the richest vesture, he bade for them provide.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
LI So to their loving comrades a messenger was sent, That they the goodly vesture might see before they went, If it for the warriors too short were or too long.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
And then he was glad he had found the straw hat with the youthful ribbon, and all his other festal vestures.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
The offering of the vestures vnto the sepulchres.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Mad and crazy revelers, how ye drank and roared! but kings no more: vestures loosed; and scepters rolling on the ground.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
After this are presented other vestures for the ornament of the Mosquita.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Pour la bonne diligence For the good diligence Quil faict a peuple That he doth to the peple 4 De liurer leurs vestures To deliuere their clothes Au iour quil a promys.
From Dialogues in French and English by Henry Bradley
Every field is newly vestured in young corn or the olive greenness of wheat; the smell of the earth is full of sweetness.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
But his appeal is vestured in ideal deference.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
An interview with Tom Bakewell had put him on the track, and now a momentary survey of the table, and its white- vestured cake, made him whistle.
From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 by George Meredith
It was vestured all about with Godly piety.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
Mayhap book and bell and organ peal and vestured choir and high ceremony of the church may be more solemn; but I, who speak the truth from this very knowledge, think it could not be.
From The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough
