Around his waist was a kind of kirtle, the skin of some animal. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
Her only garment was a silk kirtle, girdled at the waist. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
Wearing her Norman cap and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The girl's only garment was a silken kirtle, girdled at the waist. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Adventurer]
They settled on a simple design fashioned something like a kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
Olaf's neck, and even helped him to draw off his kirtle and woollen sark. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
This, with the antique kirtle and picturesque petticoat, is an Acadian portrait. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
That is to saye a kirtle of skarlet, a robe of Purple, a sceptre, and a close corone. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Padding to a chest beside the door, she snaked out a sheer kirtle that lay folded inside. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
Sapphire drifted down the stairs, dressed in a lovely, soft kirtle of her signature blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
Her clothes were strange — spurred boots and breeches over which fell a short green kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
Before that, any colour would do and a wedding was a good excuse to get yourself a new kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [things to plan for next Maerquin] Reference
He was dressed differently, in loose trousers and a short kirtle bound at the waist with a sash. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
He shifted beneath the quilts with the arousal, and she moved back and slipped out of her kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
Why should I bend to her? — is it because her kirtle is of silk, and mine of blue lockeram? —. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
The sun behind her outlined her lithe figure through the light kirtle which its glow made transparent. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
When he returned to the large chamber Samarra had donned her kirtle, and put on a somber mien as well. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
The long kirtle slid to the carpets and she stood in lush nudity, all ripe curves and womanly softness. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
When he returned to the larger chamber Samarra had donned her kirtle, and put on a somber mien as well. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
She had shed her armor and wore a rumpled kirtle and blouse of madder rose, which clashed with her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Her fur-trimmed blue cloak was of fine wool, and her kirtle of green was slashed with panels of blue silk. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Think one has to assume a certain level of literacy for words like thane and fyrd, kirtle and wimple, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Archaic terminology in historical fiction] Reference
I had suggested a red kirtle, but Lady Elizabeth complained that it was too glaring and she was quite right. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
Anne spun about in her new gown, an elegant creation of gold cloth covered in diamonds over a silver kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [The Tudors: King Takes Queen] Reference
She wore a kirtle of red velvet, a gown of purple trimmed in Baltic fur, and a satin caul beneath her coronet. From Wordnik.com. [The Tudors: King Takes Queen] Reference
"I suppose if that woman in the green kirtle comes here, they must be used to guests of our size," thought Jill. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Chair]
I took the proffered dagger, and slid it between kirtle and bodice in the back, as I had seen the Gypsy women do. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Then she drewe out a knife, which she had hidden secretely, vnder her kirtle, and stabbed her selfe to the harte. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
At this question Olaf turned aside, threw his pebbles away into the water, and wiped his wet hands on his coarse kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Lord Jagged looked handsome in his surcoat and mail, but Una Persson merely looked uncomfortable in her wimple and kirtle. From Wordnik.com. [Elric At The End of Time]
Each was clad in an extremely scanty bodice of silken blue, girdled above a kirtle that came barely to their very pretty knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Then the knights fetched the club and the kirtle, and some of the treasure they took to themselves, and returned again to the host. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
The last thing he saw was the shimmer of the spangles on her kirtle, glimmering like faerie light as she twirled like a whirling dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
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