strangely-dressed

Updated: May 23, 2025

But they had taken a different road from that by which we had come, and consequently we had missed them. Of course, the council broke up, and the Indians, who had remained on the other side of the river, were invited in the village to partake of the Pawnee hospitality. Gabriel and I soon accosted the strangely-dressed foreigners.

Frederick Marryat - The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas

But they had taken a different road from that by which we had come, and consequently we had missed them. Of course, the council broke up, and the Indians, who had remained on the other side of the river, were invited in the village to partake of the Pawnee hospitality. Gabriel and I soon accosted the strangely-dressed foreigners.

Frederick Marryat - Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet

I made my way, however, though in what direction I knew not, except it was one in which everybody seemed striving, and by dint of elbowing and pushing I at last got to a place which looked like the aisle of a cathedral, where the people stood in two rows, a space between being kept open by certain strangely-dressed men who moved up and down with rods in their hands; all were looking to the upper end of this place or aisle; and at the upper end, separated from the people by palings like those of an altar, sat in magnificent-looking stalls, on the right and the left, various wonderful-looking individuals in scarlet dresses.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest