When they have committed a certain number of murders without being caught at it, they confess to Him Who Speaks for Luata and are advanced, after which they wear
robes with a slash of some color--I think yellow comes first.
The wild fruits were her food, the fresh dew in the flower-cups her drink, while the green leaves served her for little
robes; and thus she found garments in the flowers of the field, and a happy home with Mother Brown-Breast; and all in the wood, from the stately trees to the little mosses in the turf, were friends to the merry child.
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest
robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
She was clad in flowing, fluffy
robes of soft material that reminded Dorothy of woven cobwebs, only it was colored in soft tintings of violet, rose, topaz, olive, azure, and white, mingled together most harmoniously in stripes which melted one into the other with soft blendings.
All four were dressed in parti-colored
robes of yellow and white, which were distinguished from each other only by the nature of the stuff; the first was of gold and silver brocade; the second, of silk; the third, of wool; the fourth, of linen.
Then the constable said, for the third time, "Now tell me, holy father, do pilgrims to Canterbury wear good Lincoln green beneath their
robes? Ha!
Kama, however, had two
robes of rabbit skin to Daylight's one.
The women were badly clad; the children worse; their garments were buffalo
robes, or the skins of foxes, hares, and badgers, and sometimes the skins of ducks, sewed together, with the plumage on.
The choir are getting on their sullied white
robes, in a hurry, when he arrives among them, gets on his own
robe, and falls into the procession filing in to service.
The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo
robes and hugging each other for warmth.
Pulling off their masks and tearing their
robes, they fought with one another for the nuts.
Their
robes are always full of gold and silver embroidery.