"Clothed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... retains a feature resembling the Ionic volute, but reduced to a very small size, set obliquely and appearing to spring from the sides of a kind of long bell-shaped termination to the column. This bell is clothed with foliage, symmetrically arranged and much of it studied, but in a conventional manner, from the graceful foliage of the acanthus; between the two small volutes appears an Assyrian honeysuckle, and tendrils of honeysuckle, conventionally treated, ...
— Architecture - Classic and Early Christian • Thomas Roger Smith
... the realms sidereal, Clothed with the immaterial, Far as the fields elysian In starry bloom extend, The stretch of angel ...
— Hesperus - and Other Poems and Lyrics • Charles Sangster
... Lately she had seen their opposites embodied in a woman from whom she shrank in repulsion—whose name never passed her lips—Oliver's sister—who had trampled on her in her misery. Yet here, in Marion's dingy lodging, she saw the very same ideas which Isabel Fotheringham made hateful, clothed in light, speaking from the rugged or noble faces of men and women who saw in them the salvation of ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... will consequently be incommunicable to foreigners. You would, then, have us be trading with tokens instead of a precious currency? Yet I cannot perceive the advantage of letting our ideas be clothed so racy of the obscener soil; considering the pretensions of the English language to become the universal. If we refuse additions from above, they force ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... simply because the law cannot punish you for it. Never say in your hearts when you are tempted to be hard, cruel, covetous, over-reaching, 'What harm? I break no law by it.' There is a law, whether you see it or not; you break a law, whether you confess it or not; a law which is as a wall of iron clothed with thunder, though man's law be but a flimsy net of thread; and that law, and not any Acts of Parliament, shall judge you in the day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, and every man shall receive ...
— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley
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