The worthy Clerk stated aghast at the vision; the purple robe, the cymar, the coronet, -- above all, the smile; no, there was no mistaking her; it was the blessed St. Bridget herself!. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
She was not attired in her white cymar; nor was her head wreathed with monumental amaranths; -- health was on her cheek, fond smiles on her pouting lip, and tender love swimming in her melting glance. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
His embroidered cymar, or robe, falls about him in rich folds as he clasps his arms about the tiny swaddled figure. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
A sea-green cymar with short sleeves, displayed her exquisitely moulded arms to perfection, and was fastened by a girdle of emeralds over. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
To make matters still worse, she had chosen a vest or cymar of a pale green silk, which gave her, on the whole, a ghastly and even spectral appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
So lovely were these seven sisters when they stood in the darksome vault, disrobed of all clothing saving a cymar of white silk, that their charms moved the hearts of those who were not mortal. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
By bribing an old woman in the service of Zinevra, he is conveyed to her sleeping apartment, concealed in a trunk, from which he issues in the dead of the night; he takes note of the furniture of the chamber, makes himself master of her purse, her morning robe, or cymar, and her girdle, and of a certain mark on her person. From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
This clergyman was appointed, during the reign of Edward, to the ice of Gloucefter, and made no i'cruple of accepting the epifcopal office; but he refufed to be confecrated in the epifcopal habit, the cymar and rochet, which had formerly, he faid, been abufed to fuperftition, and were thereby rendered unbecoming a true Chriftian. From Wordnik.com. [The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.] Reference
"Let us believe her the habitant of some bright planet, such as she pointed out to us in the Bay of Naples -- a seraph with a golden lyre -- and shrouded in a white cymar!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Beneath the white cymar!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference
The white cymar gleams far behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
The dancing girl in soft cymar, . From Wordnik.com. [0 1512. A Ballade of Islands by Lucy Robinson. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Robed in a loose cymar of lily white. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
(Mutter Gottes Sommer) or God's cymar (?). From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Simar, or cymar, a shroud, iii. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
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