War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being
clad in his heavy coat of mail.
Suddenly he found himself confronted by a dreadful figure
clad in a shroud, whose pallor and stony eyes smote him with a horrible apprehension.
Then the half-frenzied shape of Mary Dyer, the persecuted Quaker woman,
clad in sackcloth and ashes would have rested in it for a moment.
An individual who was standing beyond the railing, in the free space around the marble table, and whom no one had yet caught sight of, since his long, thin body was completely sheltered from every visual ray by the diameter of the pillar against which he was leaning; this individual, we say, tall, gaunt, pallid, blond, still young, although already wrinkled about the brow and cheeks, with brilliant eyes and a smiling mouth, clad in garments of black serge, worn and shining with age, approached the marble table, and made a sign to the poor sufferer.
"And, further on, at the Painters' Gate, there were other personages, very richly clad."
Then he
clad himself in a friar's gown, and underneath the robe he hung a good broadsword in such a place that he could easily lay hands upon it.
They were
clad in graceful, flowing robes, highly ornamented with metal and jewels, and their luxuriant hair was of a beautiful golden and reddish bronze.
The father,
clad in an old, dirty frockcoat, was seated on a dilapidated chair.
They were girls of fourteen, always
clad in the Virgin's colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at their baptism.
Shortly after this, several bands of dancers of various sorts began to enter the arcade at different points, and among them one of sword-dancers composed of some four-and-twenty lads of gallant and high-spirited mien,
clad in the finest and whitest of linen, and with handkerchiefs embroidered in various colours with fine silk; and one of those on the mares asked an active youth who led them if any of the dancers had been wounded.
Like Will, this fellow was
clad in scarlet, though he did not look quite as fine a gentleman.
They were well
clad, and all had buffalo robes, which they procured from some of the hunting tribes in exchange for salmon.