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It is simply a square dark-coloured blanket with a hole in the middle of it, through which the head is thrust in rainy weather, and the garment hangs down all round. At night the poncho is useful as a covering. The hermit wore a loose open hunting coat, and underneath it a girdle, in which was a long sharp knife and a brace of pistols. His trousers were of blue-striped cotton.
A many-colored girdle confined the dress at the waist. Her legs and feet were covered with high, loose moccasins. Her black hair hung free on her shoulders. "You been much sick," the woman went on, "much sick," stooping to straighten Rhoda's blanket. "Where am I?" asked Rhoda. "At Chira. You eat breakfast?" Rhoda caught the woman's hand. "Who are you?" she asked. "You have been very good to me."
I had a huge hot turban, a long close-fitting gown, baggy loose drawers, drawn in at the ankles, sandals on my naked feet, and a silk girdle decorated with pistol and dirk.
Here once when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had gone forth, the hero Heracles caught her by ambuscade and Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister's ransom, and he sent away his captive unharmed. In the bay of this headland, at the outfall of Thermodon, they ran ashore, for the sea was rough for their voyage.
Stay, give me that bodkin which she wears lest she, who has learned bloody ways of late, should do some of you or herself a mischief." As he spoke one of the men deftly snatched the dagger from Eve's girdle and handed it to Sir John who threw it into the farthest corner of the room. Then he turned and said: "Now, girl, will you go, or must you be dragged?"
The few women who were in the castle fled shrieking to their hiding places. The men died fighting. "To the dungeons! Show us the way to the dungeons, and we give you your life," cried their leader Kynewulf to an individual whose bunch of keys attached to his girdle showed his office. "The friar is safe below, unhurt. I will take you to him. But I have no key." "Where is it, then?"
To combat the which sick fancies it became my custom to steal up from my fetid hiding-place at dead of night and to prowl soft-footed about the ship where none stirred save myself and the drowsy watch above deck. Night after night I roamed the ship thus, my fingers clenched on the knife in my girdle, my ears on the strain and eyes that sought vainly every dark corner or patch of shadow.
Under his girdle lay the same large knife in the green sheath which we had seen on the departing horseman. "Amoursayn," we answered. He quickly untied his girdle and laid aside his overcoat. He stood before us in a wonderful gown of silk, yellow as beaten gold and girt with a brilliant blue sash.
She no longer displayed an insolently happy countenance. Being separated from Paul, her sadness had an air of gentleness. But the moment he made a gesture to recover her she turned away fiercely and gloomily, girt with her fault as if with a golden girdle. He did not give up, making himself humble, suppliant, lamentable.
'Colbrand the Dane was a dwarf to him. 'It is as true, returned Fabian, 'as that the Tasker is to be married on Tuesday to pretty Margery. Gregory, thy sheet hath brought them between a pair of blankets. 'I care no more for such a gillflirt, said the jester, than I do for thy leasings. Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle.
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