Fields in a vesture of green. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The vesture is a lighter color than the traditional dark purple. From Wordnik.com. [Lent 4: Homily on Christian Nurture] Reference
It is because He wears a vesture dipped in blood, that 'on the vesture is the name written "King of kings, and Lord of lords."'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Ac 2: 13-17; Eph 5: 18). belly -- that is, the vesture on it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
By baptism we be regenerate, and when we shall have passed the time of this exile, he shall clothe us of double vesture, that is to wit of body and soul in glory. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Saw you ever such brilliant vesture, such resplendent fins?. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
All her vesture was embroidered with the finest lace of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
As a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Give to me your mask and vesture, and so let me take your place. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference
Clothed in immortal vesture, the brothers now stand before that Great. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
They lparted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Mine own sweet stream! thy rugged shores are stripped of all their vesture sheen. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
And Keranus said, "My elder," said he, "beareth a cloak for me under his vesture.". From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Prophecy says, "They part my garments among them, and casts lots upon my vesture.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
It was enveloped in thick darkness, and covered with hair and moss forming its grassy vesture. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
So spoke she, and wrapping her head in her gray vesture, the goddess moaning sore sank in the river depth. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The V-shaped vesture gives her a longer waist, and the long lines of the revers add to the length of her skirt. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
In this way a man may be honored even in something external; for instance in his vesture, his image, or his messenger. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
It was the middle of June, and Nature lay a vision of beauty in her vesture of flowers, leaves, and blossoming grasses. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Coemhgenus and they exchanged their vesture, and they made a perpetual brotherhood between themselves and their followers. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
He was magnificently dressed in some vesture that had the luster of a polished plate of gold, and the suppleness of velvet. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
And it makes a difference, now and ever, believe me, whether you serve Him who has on His vesture and thigh written, 'King of. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
Wherever the eye can pierce their white vesture, all is still deep spring-green beneath; unchanged at heart -- strong and true. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Nature were stilled at the coming of Light, and bound together, under its soft vesture, into a glorious and beneficent Creation. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
"Prayer!" was the haughty answer; "with the eyes that I see in that glass, and this vesture meet for a queen, I lack no doubting prayer!". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference
It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such a vesture of their thought and experience as they were meditating. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
It seemed to me to be the mortal vesture chosen by one of the angels of heaven to express to earthly souls all the attributes of the children of light. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Stirred in the linen vesture; 'thus changing the sadness of the family assembled round the couch into a lustre sympathetic with that of her own reopened eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
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