Sample Sentences forvestment (auto-selected)
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I've seen it before, the white bag placed over the head, the woman helped up onto the high stool as if she's being helped up the steps of a bus, steadied there, the noose adjusted delicately around the neck, like a vestment, the stool kicked away.† (source)
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No one could remember the denomination of the school minister, a sepulchral old gentleman who favored bow ties and had the habit of pinning his vestment to the floor with an errant stab of his cane; he suffered from gout.† (source)
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The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that hitherto had always covered it even from the professional eye.† (source)
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Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and to pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.† (source)
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It takes a moment for Lev to recognize him—mainly because he's not wearing his modest pastor's vestments.† (source)
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The temple's vestments and equipment had been thrown into the street, or found their way to other decade rooms on other ships.† (source)
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As I helped Edouard and Monsignor Frey place the vestments on the stiffened corpse I noticed the browning skin and slackening mouth.† (source)
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An old man stepped out, dressed in raw cotton pants and a plain vestment made from some rough fabric just shy of burlap.† (source)
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When we played make-believe, I'd put a sheet over my shoulders and pretend I was walking down long corridors, saying my beads, in my starched vestments.† (source)
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CRANMER (Laying the cross of his vestment on the table) Place your left hand on this and raise your right handtake your hat off— Now say after me: I swear by my immortal soul— (JAILER, overlapping, repeats the oath with him) —that I Will report truly anything said by Sir Thomas More against the King, the Council or the State of the Realm.† (source)
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Not a holy-rolling, fire-and-brimstone guy by any stretch, but not a soft-spoken minister in vestments, performing liturgical readings either.† (source)
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He had left his list beside the barrel, and this recorded, among other articles: a salade garnessed with golde, iij peire gantelez, a vestment, a mesbooke, an auter cloth, a peir of brigandines, a pyssying basin of silver, x schertes for my Lord, a jakete of leather, and a bagge of chessmen.† (source)
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First of all his luggage had to be put in carefully because his vestments couldn't be crushed.† (source)
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He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement, and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered vestment, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice, and smiting his breast for his sins.† (source)
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Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments.† (source)
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There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up—head and all—with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew.† (source)
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