The stuffs then known were velvet, satin (called samite), and taffeta, -- all of which were stitched with gold or silver thread. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
His robe of white samite gleamed in the morning light. From Wordnik.com. [Dalamar the Dark]
On the strand he found a ship covered all with white samite. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
She knew again her own, and the crimson samite flung upon the bed. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
It was draped in red samite that curtained down into the hot space. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
She was sheathed in radiant white samite that clung to her shapely curves. From Wordnik.com. [I can have my dream house, at least until I wake up] Reference
He finally settled on a dark blue doublet woven with gold and made of samite. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference
A White robed elf will speak to you as graciously as though you wore snowy samite. From Wordnik.com. [Dalamar the Dark]
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind sambies or sambos or sangers (sandwiches) samite (cloth). From Wordnik.com. [The Mural II] Reference
Tell me truly where this fair samite was found; whence came it; who gave it to you?. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Sir Percivale went unto the ship and found it covered within and without with white samite. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
And on the strand he found a ship covered all with white samite, and he alit, and betook him to Jesu. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
And perhaps an arm will come, clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, to draw me through the door. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Ladder]
I entered in, and behold! there as of yore, clothed in his samite raiment, stood the incomparable Alphonse. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919] Reference
If I had seen the solemn boat with “the three fair queens,” in “robes of samite, mystic, wonderful,”. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
Then Balin looked into a fair little garden, and under a laurel tree he saw her lie upon a quilt of green samite and. 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
'See,' she said, giving it into his hand, 'it is a sleeve of mine, of scarlet samite, embroidered with great pearls.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The Sire de Pirenne lay upon a huge square of red samite edged with gold, draped over the flat bed of a four-wheeled cart. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
And when they came to the board they found in the middes the table of silver and the Sangreal which was covered with red samite. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
Simon and the other French knights raised a pallet that was hidden under the red samite cloth and carried Alain into the cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
So this doleful lady took a fair piece of white samite, broidered with gold, and wrought thereon the whole story of this adventure. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Then they gave her food and drink, and led her to a beautifully made bed of silk and samite, on which she lay down and slept soundly. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
Maybe I am nothing but samite, pregnant with silver, and out of those sleeves come endless swords, dropping like lakelight from my hems. From Wordnik.com. [Under in the Mere by Catherynne M. Valente | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference
She was dressed in green samite, trimmed with ermine. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago] Reference
We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
And there he found a ship, covered all with white samite. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Chivalry] Reference
Majesty's instructions were to buy the samite of the lowest price that could be found!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Two walnut-wood chairs, furnished with crimson samite cushions, stood in the middle of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago] Reference
The tent was white round about, and the hanging above was of the richest silk, the same as red samite. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
Doucebelle, watching her with deep yet concealed interest, fancied she saw tears glistening on the samite. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
And when they came on board they found there the table of silver, and the Sangreal, which was covered with red samite. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Chivalry] Reference
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