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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

Well pleas'd him their fair vesture, and well their armor sheen, Yet sure the like he never in Burgundy had seen.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

And with the mounting ascent I became unconscious of my corporeal vesture.

From Unicorns by James Huneker

And it happened, as they were amazed thereat: lo two men stood by them, in shining vestures.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

The nation has stripped itself of the old vestures; patriots of the type soon to be called Girondins have the problem of governing this naked nation.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The Phrygian queen to her rich wardrobe went, Where treasured odours breathed a costly scent; There lay the vestures of no vulgar art, Sidonian maids embroider’d every part.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

The populace will laugh outright at the curtailment of our vestures, but would gladly have seen these animals eat daily a quarter less of the lentils.”

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Trustworthiness is in truth the best of vestures for your temples and the most glorious crown for your heads.

From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

"Crowned with olive over a white veil a Lady appeared to me, vestured in hue of living flame under a green mantle."

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery

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

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

Here is elemental personality, in inwrought and indivisible unity, with measureless capacity for versatility, easily blending fulness of vigor with complete repose, vestured and transfused with native symmetry and grace.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

The next who came was Halfdan, a light-haired swain: His countenance was noble, but weak and vain; He gaily bore a falchion, with which he gestured, And seemed a youthful maiden, in armor vestured.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb