"Vesture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and hobgoblins, ill-favoured ones, and shining ones, the tall, comely, swarthy Madam Bubble, with her great purse by her side, and her fingers playing with the money, the black man in the bright vesture, Mr. Wordly-Wise-man and my Lord Hategood, Mr. Talkative, and Mrs. Timorous, all are actually existing beings to us. We follow the travellers through their allegorical progress with interest not inferior to that with which we follow Elizabeth from Siberia to Moscow, or Jeanie ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... spirit, that the spirit is an organised substance, but as different in point of material from what we ordinarily understand by matter, as light or electricity is; that the material body is, in the most literal sense, a vesture, and death consequently no interruption of the living man's existence, but simply his extrication from the natural body—a process which commences at the moment of what we term death, and the completion of which, at furthest a few days later, ...
— Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... parted, summer suns were smiling, And the bright earth her flowery vesture wore; But thou hadst lost the power of beguiling, For my wrecked, wearied heart, could hope ...
— Poems • Frances Anne Butler
... Piedmont. As we steamed up the lake Maggiore the thin mist of early morn cleared off, and by the time we had passed the far-famed Borromean Islands the eye was ravished with the scenes of beauty on every side. Trees and flowers bloomed forth in the lovely vesture of an Italian spring, and the hills, villas, and gardens on the shores of the lake were imaged forth as in a mirror on its ...
— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold
... lokke3, & layde on his schulderes Heme wel haled, hose of at same grene, [B] at spenet on his sparlyr, & clene spures vnder, Of bry3t golde, vpon silk bordes, barred ful ryche 160 & scholes vnder schankes, ere e schalk rides; & alle his vesture uerayly wat3 clene verdure, Boe e barres of his belt & oer blye stones, at were richely rayled in his aray clene, 164 [C] Aboutte hym-self & his sadel, vpon silk werke3, at were to tor for ...
— Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight - An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) • Anonymous
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