Raiment

The clerical staff will not disport themselves in raiment of bright colors, nor will they wear hose unless in good repair. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The clerical staff will not disport themselves in raiment of bright colors, nor will they wear hose unless in good repair. colors? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So he carried him to his place and clad his daughter in raiment, such as added to her beauty and loveliness. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But, as the sun's "glorious raiment" is replaced by the merely reflective light of a "bright cloud," the "mild beam" of human sympathy gives way before the questionable lustre of the miser's gold (which signifies, in Visions 'imperialist context, the stolen wealth comprising the so-called commonwealth). ❋ Unknown (2001)

When Christ has need of us, His messenger will appear; he is clothed in raiment white as snow, and although his voice is always gentle, it is clearly heard in the rush and roar of the tempest as on a summer's day. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Robed in raiment of beauty, diaphanous gear of Benares. ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

Some for the words -- in raiment of needlework -- propose another rendering, "on variegated (or embroidered) cloths" -- that is, in the manner of the East, richly wrought tapestry was spread on the ground, on which the bride walked. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The misery of the times had reduced the nobles and matrons of Rome to accept, without a blush, the benevolence of the church: three thousand virgins received their food and raiment from the hand of their benefactor; and many bishops of Italy escaped from the Barbarians to the hospitable threshold of the Vatican. ❋ Unknown (1206)

14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Nabobs and Emirs and Wazirs; all clad in raiment which confounded man’s art. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And said she: The next thing thou hast to do is to arise, as thou well mayest, and take this raiment, which is fair and clean, and go wash thee in the brook and come back to me; and then we will talk, and thou shalt tell me of how it was with thee, and peradventure I may tell thee somewhat of how it shall be with thee. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The shape of their raiment is a burden almost greater than they can bear, and they halt in their walk to preserve the due adjustment of their trouser-knees, till one would fancy he had mixed in a procession of Jacobs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Of course I don't suppose any one here knows how to starch and iron white shirts and collars, so that the doctor can't help his raiment, which is better adapted to the local fashions. ❋ George Van Schaick (N/A)

At present his raiment is a disgrace, and he wears a dress-shirt like ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Everyone busies himself about elegant and clean clothing for the body, everyone tries to dress with taste and elegance, but who thinks of the incorruptible raiment, which is all defiled with sins, and in which we all shall have to appear before God the Judge? ❋ 1829-1909 (1897)

A leading constituent of wealth in the East is change of raiment, which is always liable to the inroads of the moth; hence the frequency of the image in Scripture. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The shape of their raiment is a burden almost greater than they can bear, and they halt in their walk to preserve the due adjustment of their trouser - knees, till one would fancy he had mixed in a procession of Jacobs. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

The whiteness of his raiment was an emblem not only of purity, but of joy and triumph. ❋ Unknown (1721)