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The prison doors were draped with tapestries, box and myrtle strewed the ground, and the Governor received the condemned person and signed a receipt for his body. The happy man prostrated himself before the crucifix, was crowned with the olive garland, the Te Deum was intoned, and he was led away to the brotherhood's church, where he heard high mass in sight of all the people.
She was not fond of looking intimately at the future in the presence of another person, especially when the future was draped in doubtfully auspicious colours. "And then what?" persisted Henry. "Then I suppose he will be upon my hands." "Exactly." "Don't sit there looking judicial. I'm quite ready to listen to suggestions if you've any to make."
Now and then a mounted wayfarer came toward us looking like a landed proprietor in his own equipment and that of his steed, and there were peasant women solidly perched on donkeys, and draped in long black cloaks and hooded in white kerchiefs.
I will write a cheque and charge it to your account together with the other purchases." He withdrew with the saleswoman, leaving Flamby seated looking at the velvet frock draped across a chair. Having proceeded to a discreet distance "What is the price of the dress, please?" he asked. "With the alterations which madam requires, eighteen guineas, sir."
Would the voyage could last for an age, with the same sparkling but tranquil sea, and the same environment of hills, near and remote! The hills approached and fell away in lines of undulating grace, draped with a tender color which helped to carry the imagination beyond the earth.
A few years after the peace, it was blown down by a violent tempest, and finally no vestige of it was left, but there remained only a summer-house and the family tomb. At Sir William's death, his mansion was hung with black, while the body lay in state for a week. All the Sparhawk portraits were covered with black crape, and the family pew was draped with black.
Sometime before dawn the pain in his head drove him reluctantly back to awareness. There were some foul-smelling hides draped over him that retained a little of his body heat. He pulled away the stifling fold that covered his face and stared up at the stars, cold points of light that glittered in the frigid night.
I guess we've gone and put Tannersville on the map, Tom!" "Gee, I'm scared!" muttered Tom, looking up at Steve with wide eyes. "I I don't believe I'll do it!" "You don't, eh? Well, you're going to do it! Get your old duds on and hurry up. It's after six." "I'll have to tell Brownell I'm not going to the feast." Tom gazed fascinatedly at his best trousers draped across the chair back.
Of those who would make devotions the men were stripped to the waist, their limbs draped in spotless white. And the women, on their way to have their sins forgiven, were taking final license the purdah of the veil was almost forgotten, for this was permitted in the presence of the god.
And the Madame of the restaurant came to me a little while afterwards, and said, “We dare not tell her, but they were all killed.” Many people at home don’t realise what is going on. Some are in mourning, some have lost boys, some have lost husbands, brothers, but we have not suffered as others have suffered. I was riding in a French train a few weeks ago. Beside me sat a lady draped in mourning.
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