Talma

Such as it was I feel again its majesty on those occasions on which I dragged -- if I must here once more speak for myself only -- after Albany cousins through its courts of edification: I remember being very tired and cold and hungry there, in a little light drab and very glossy or shiny "talma" breasted with rather troublesome buttonhole-embroideries; though concomitantly conscious that I was somehow in Europe, since everything about me had been "brought over," which ought to have been consoling, and seems in fact to have been so in some degree, inasmuch as both my own pain and the sense of the cousinly, the Albany, headaches quite fade in that recovered presence of big ❋ Henry James (1879)

He lays aside his talma, places his gloves on the centre-table, which is heaped with an infinite variety of delicately-enveloped missives and cards, all indicative of her position in fashionable society. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Charleston hotel, the tall figure of a man wrapped in a massive talma. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The figure in the talma answers with a bow, slips something into the hand of the servant, passes softly up the great stairs, and is soon lost to sight. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Miss Metoaca, who had resigned herself to the inevitable after her recent explosion, was busy knitting a talma, a round cape which, like Penelope's web, seemed to the uninitiated to have no beginning and no end. ❋ Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1908)

We could do without it if I couldn't afford it, she said, and I must have a talma cloak anyhow, and the children needed so many things, but she didn't want anything for herself. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Well, yes; that bundle in the United States blanket was two oilcloths and a big, hairy cloak, cape, or talma - never knew exactly what. ❋ A.C McLeary (1902)

He usually wore a talma of coarse fabric, loose and reaching to his hips. ❋ James O'Meara (1864)

The officer could tell her, after a glance at the faultless gentleman who was her neighbor, that the arms so conspicuously crossed in his lap, are false, his real arms all the time being free to operate under the folds of his talma. ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

Wearing a striped woollen _talma_, with coarse cotton shirt underneath, wide sheep-skin breeches, ex tending only a little below the knee, and rude raw-hide sandals upon his feet, he is evidently one of the Christianised aboriginals. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The sheet can also be used on the ground, and is a great protection from dampness, and as a shawl or talma; indeed, a variety of advantageous uses to which the gutta-percha sheet may be put will suggest themselves to persons using it. ❋ Randolph Barnes Marcy (1849)

I walked through the Forum (where a thorn thrust itself out and tore the sleeve of my talma) and under the Arch of Titus, towards the ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

But my black hat and grave talma would have been too good a mark for the combatants, .... so we went home before a shot was fired .... ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

But my black hat and grave talma would have been too good a mark for the combatants, .... so we went home before a shot was fired ... .. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

In truth, allowing for the difference of costume, and if a lion's skin could have been substituted for his modern talma, and a rustic pipe for his stick, ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

For more, go to briantalma.com or irieman-talma.com ❋ Unknown (2011)

a brown talma of finest broadcloth, whose Greek-like folds and double-decked effect were artistic, but did not tempt him to pose or remember his material self. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)