The habiliments of the attendees was decidedly more formal than necessary. From LearnThat.org.
Sammy gave it a sharp glance, then another, and then held the book at arm's length, regarding Robinson's goatskin habiliments over the rims of his spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story] Reference
But for the badge of princehood, the fringed ribbon dependent from a gem-crusted annulet over each temple, his habiliments were the same as the Pharaoh's. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
He, therefore, once more figured in the habiliments of Betty. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
A miscreant whose natural function was the vending of cast habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
His official robes were worn by him as the customary habiliments of the man. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
However, we soon reached the theatre, and resumed our own proper habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
But, of all his habiliments, his slippers were most deserving the study of the curious. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She dressed herself in the habiliments of a widow, and determined never to lay them aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
Why, they look like the habiliments of one who has money to spend, of a regular man of business. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The habiliments of the hurrying throng were exuberant, extravagant and ostentatious in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
And with heavy heart and despondent spirits, she divested herself of the remainder of her habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Villefort, while his Greek peasant's garb was transformed into the sombre habiliments of the Procureur du Roi. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Heavy, ostentatious, and expensive habiliments are often worn in mourning, but they are not in the best taste. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Those idle rimes to note the odious spot and blemish that deformes the lineaments of modern poesies habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
So, after he had adjusted his lurid scarf at the correct angle, and gazed ruefully at his torn habiliments, the sunshiny. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Its sides consisted entirely of sets of great pigeon-holes, each occupied by the habiliments or effects of some prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
You will be astonished to observe the scrupulous neatness of the men, the gaudy and ostentatious habiliments of 'de ladies.'. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Dinner over, I adjourned to the "sitting-room," and seating myself by the fire, watched the drying of my "outer habiliments.". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Their sport having been finished, they dressed themselves in white habiliments, and decked themselves with various ornaments. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
We have seen our fathers, in the days of Columbia's trouble, assume the rough habiliments of war, and seek the hostile field. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference
In an old print, seemingly a hundred years old, they are depicted as being lassoed by men in cocked hats and antique habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Before her half-closed eyes the city, slowly but purposefully, began to throw off the habiliments of day and don the tinsel of evening. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
If their habiliments consisted of costumes run mad, their chariots were not less varied, and afforded an historical study in locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The bedstead had no curtains, but in lieu of them, there were hangings around it, which struck Delmé as resembling mourning habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
The great lady was now appareled as became her rank, having discarded those Bohemian habiliments which were her disguise in times of danger. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The party consisted of about thirty men, who were armed with their usual weapons of spears, boomerangs and waddies; and clad in nature's own habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Pistols and dirks were in great demand, and formed a part of the personal habiliments of all those conspicuous for their opposition to the Convention measure. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Josephine, having arranged her clustering hair in a style as masculine as possible, proceeded to invest herself in the boyish habiliments which she had provided. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
As well might we paint a mountain without its verdant clothing, its waving plumes of pine and cedar, as the western man without his picturesque and characteristic habiliments. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Nothing has been said to her about the fateful day on which she was -- consciously or unconsciously -- paraded through London in the tattered masculine habiliments of a vagabond. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
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