Cloaks

Sarah Palin cloaks her ideas in "straight talk" to avoid them being subject to fact-checking that would happen if she were to use standard english to make the same points. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it's going to take more than a few love spells to keep him from getting jealous about her latest gig-protecting a rock star named Zane from the creepy Goth guys in cloaks who keep showing up at his concerts and zapping his mojo. ❋ Nalini Singh (2008)

This idea lays great responsibility on the shoulders of wives and mothers, at the same time enfolding them in cloaks of great power. ❋ Linda (2007)

Then the people filed out into the damp winter night, pulling their thin cloaks about them. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Some in long coats, and some in short cloaks; some with pantaloons; some without breeches. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The husband, who wears an odd sort of _bonnet tricolore_, and several of his comrades are simply dressed in short cloaks open at the sides and ending just below the hip. ❋ David Lindsay Crawford (1905)

Margaret turned hastily, entered the room, -- and was confronted by two young gentlemen in Spanish cloaks and broad-brimmed hats. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

The serjeants-of-arms followed, and then two lines again of gentlemen-pensioners walking, bare-headed, carrying wands, in short cloaks and elaborate ruffs. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

The Poperinghe boy, like his London brother, hangs on the back of carts; his father and mother come to their door to watch what is going on, or to ask eagerly for news of the counter-attack; and his little brothers and sisters go tripping to school, in short cloaks with the hoods drawn over their heads, as though no war existed. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Mothers in short cloaks were holding their little ones up to see the sight, which by this means they entirely lost themselves; and a troop of dogs and cats were playing and fighting at the feet of these eager sight-seers, who took the greatest pains not to tread on, or in any way injure the sacred animals. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

About one hundred and fifty men, enveloped in cloaks and sarapes, their faces entirely concealed, were assembled in the body of the church. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

Having made up a party of twelve in all, and embraced those who were to stay, and sent a messenger before them to Charon, they set out, dressed in short cloaks, with hounds and carrying stakes for hunting nets, so that no one whom they met on the road might suspect them, but that they might seem to be merely ranging about the country and hunting. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

I bore her from the near neighbourhood of the dead; wrapt in cloaks, I placed her beneath a tree. ❋ Unknown (1826)

These last recalled the cloaks in which Giotto shrouds some of the allegorical figures in his paintings, of which M. Swann had given me photographs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No doubt it was very characteristic to call the cloaks by their market value. ❋ Unknown (1898)