How To Use Draped In A Sentence
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He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
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And the Bridal Show, for married women, seemed to do just that by focusing on the Indianess of contestants who were draped in variety of colourful sarees and mesmerizing gagra cholis that dazzled with every step.
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Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
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Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently.
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Long pieces of sheer pink fabric were draped over the high white painted metal bedposts and the bars above that attached them.
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Achan, the head monk, draped in the colours of the dawn, unlatches the door to a large metal cage.
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This wine is ideal with slices of cool turkey, dusted with a little sea salt and draped over a crisp lettuce bed on rye bread.
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The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
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Banish thoughts of decorative church kneelers, of draped antimacassars or folklorish costumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He took off his coat and draped it over a chair.
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I knelt beside her bed and draped an arm around her waist.
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These yield an unearthly effect, especially since the artist has draped his monogram, suspended from a garland, across the top of the picture.
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My own coat was still draped over the chair by the door, but even from where I stood I could see loose threads dangling from the seams.
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Draped, sensual materials, such as chiffon or lightweight jersey, are a main detail, says Ms. Chang.
Spring Looks
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Macaws, owls, monkeys and agouti were in cages draped in foliage - a sort of home away from home - and watched closely by officials of the Emperor Valley Zoo.
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Opposite the fireplace, a bulky dark wood bed was draped in dark blue velvet covers and snowy white fur pelts, its sheets thrust to one side.
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The sides of the magnetic donuts also were draped, allowing the neurosurgeon to work within a sterile field.
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the undraped statue
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Odin walked stiffly, like a head hung between two heavy stilts draped in striped Viyella and white towelling.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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I usually paired them with clam-diggers and a draped tee, but now, adding the finishing touch to my thoroughly traditional gear, I had to confess that they actually looked very attractive.
Indie Girl
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The headpieces, which looked like mops, draped from the heads of the revellers, bounced up and down as they moved across the stage.
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Everything we didthe way we walked, talked, the way we sat slouched, one leg draped across the armrest of the sofadrove him crazy.
Postcards from Heaven
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Extending into the kitchen, the 12-inch tiles attract the eye and combine with the undraped window to make the nook appear bright and spacious.
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Both of them draped their cloaks around themselves and mounted their horses as she galloped up on her grey charger.
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But with just one day to go, fate spites me with a deluge and I shall drive to work draped in towels and with a cap on my head.
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As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.
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Walking behind him in single file were four beautiful women - one carried a pair of huge sneakers, another had a towel draped around her shoulders, a third toted sweat socks, and the fourth had a small bottle of cologne.
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Draped around foods before they're deep-fried, it keeps them from losing moisture and flavor.
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The next morning, Darren woke up to the sunlight that came in the undraped windows.
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She was dressed in a classic black silk gown with a sable stole cunningly draped around her shoulders so that the moth holes wouldn't show.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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She put the photographs on the table, located the spare eiderdown, and draped it over him.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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On the second day of rain, Al took the tarpaulin separating the two sides of the boxcar and draped it over the front end of the truck.
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The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
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The baldric is a length of cloth or other material about eight inches wide, hanging down in front to about wrist length, draped over the left shoulder, around the back to waist level on the right, and over the left shoulder again to about knee-height in back, with the arms pinned to it just below the left shoulder.
Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
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Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
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It is an irony lost on nobody that men draped in the English flag proclaiming unmatchable patriotism are the ones who disgrace this country.
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I took the piece of cloth and found holes where the head and the arm would go though, and draped the clothing over my head.
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Miss Howitt's dress was in the height of fashion; blue silk spencer over a white round dress with several flounces at the hem, complemented by a yellow paisley shawl draped over her shoulders.
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He always wears warm clothes, sometimes a cape or an overcoat on top, a waistcoat underneath, perhaps a scarf draped over the shoulders, a felt hat.
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Draped with some of the world's finest footballing jewels and still Italy have failed to truly sparkle.
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The high canopy over the bed was draped with prim folds of damask, and the coverlet was of some quaint crocheted work that hung in fringed ends to the floor.
The Miller of Old Church
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He draped his arm over Daniels' shoulder.
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The other she draped across her forehead, so the karaso dangled down her back.
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White robes draped across her slender form, snow-white and simple in design.
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Electrical cables draped it like jungle vines; cement peeled from its facade like slabs of granite from Junagadh mountain.
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There are two tombs in the body of the place; but none in the chancel, which is bare, except for the tall candlesticks, and the chancel rail, beyond which is the undraped altar of solid marble, upon which stand four small candlesticks, two at each end.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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I grab my bowl, that Mary had added a heap of cilantro, Parmesan and cabbage, and wander over to the table with the window view of the fog-draped, rain dappled, slow-moving Milwaukee River taking its sorry-ass time through the warehouse district on its way to Lake Michigan.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Whether you serve a fruity deep-dish cobbler draped with a homemade pastry crust or a lush pumpkin cheesecake, keep the servings small.
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Eventually he was taken away with his hands trussed behind his back and a hood draped over his head.
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The set designer has stripped the stage bare and draped it with heroically scaled posters.
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She had a blanket draped across her knees.
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Women wear a haik (a long piece of cloth draped over the entire body and head).
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A korowai cloak made with kiwi feathers was draped around the shoulders of the 27-year-old when he arrived at the Supreme Court building.
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The scrub student gowned and gloved, set up sterile fields, draped patients, and assisted with surgery.
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To mask its original functionalism, the steel frame had been side-draped with cascades of pink net down to the carpeted metal floor.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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But even he has withdrawn to the shade of a canopy draped above a couple of threadbare sofas and that glorious moment now seems an age away.
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He had changed back into Chinese dress today, and his lean frame was draped in a long, navy-blue flannel gown, giving him the air of a worthy descendant of some famous scholar.
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Hoffman said the end of the tether draped in the cargo bay was discolored, perhaps charred by burning.
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Over this was draped with white chiffon, on which a pattern of goldenrod, the National flower, was embroidered in silver.
The Presidential Inauguration | Edwardian Promenade
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“ 'Well, since I am disowned, and relegated to the sweepings,' the old man begins, draped in his sayon, and with a majesty that frightens us, 'you shall hear the crow sing!'
Frederic Mistral
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So beautiful and majestic, with his forelock draped in his face, he really fit the part.
Early Buzz: Your Highness | /Film
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On Friday at New York's St. Regis Hotel, just two hours before showing the first collection he designed since his breakthrough, Mr. Wu worked backstage pinning and stitching a finely draped cocktail dress of black silk tulle with embroidered red hash marks — a modern sort of pointelle — onto a model.
Life After the First Lady
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Bright windows stood undraped to the passing quill, and comfortable scenes of families at their business leaked out and warmed the chilly evening.
The Feather
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Across his shoulders was draped a fur collared waterproof and on his hands were those tiny stringy driving gloves.
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She draped her arms around his neck.
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Of the walls, one was occupied by the window, the other by a draped mantelshelf bristling with Cupids.
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He prances through the casinos with scantily clad showgirls draped on each arm (although he is happily married).
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Nine stylised figures stand below it with no details on them - seven of them draped in white, contrasted by two of them in scarlet.
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Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
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I have no doubt it now hangs over a window as a make-shift curtain or is draped on a wall.
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The sound of those words chilled us both, as if suddenly the night fog had draped over the two of us without warning.
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And along the sward, the black rope draped, a long, thick line of Tachi's blood.
FLOATING CITY
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In the emergency room, draped surgeons paced anxiously alongside empty gurneys.
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In most of these cake show challenges, each cake is literally draped in fondant, which brings nothing to the flavor of the cake, and exists solely as a sculpting agent.
'Top Chef: Just Desserts': Who wants to watch another show about cake? | EW.com
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Next was a deep midnight blue dress, the neckline was draped with chiffon; the bodice was silk and was cut as an empress waist, below that the skirt split to reveal a brocade fabric with gold beaded stars randomly placed.
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Curtains draped along the glass frontage keep out the vestiges of daylight, a pre-requisite of all good clubs.
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The tall, zelkova tree beside the pagoda is draped with lanterns on the Buddha's Birthday in May of every year.
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Draped across them, their cloaks seemed to hang on bodies thin and lank.
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From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Draped in white robes to symbolize purity and the equality of mankind under God, nearly 3 million Muslims from all over the world gathered Friday in Mecca, on the eve of the sta ...
3 Million Muslims In Mecca For Pilgrimage
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They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them.
Chapter 12
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The loft was strewn with clothes; shirts were draped over the couch and loveseat while pants were hung with hangers on the kitchen table seats.
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Natasha took the coat and draped it over her shoulders.
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She draped the cloak across a chair and began to unwrap the long package that she carried.
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In no time, he had the whole outfit draped over the shower curtain rod to drip-dry.
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Red flags were also draped from the windows of the hospital insupport of the protest.
Hypocrite John Reid Demonstrates Against His Own Government
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With all of her feminine assets covered, the strands went to work tailoring a belt and draped skirt before forming leather boots with soft fur collars.
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A woman's dress of the 18th century, having a fitted bodice and draped cutaway skirt, worn over an elaborate underskirt.
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Decoratively draped over the frame is a swag of gray fabric painted with an orange dot on a light blue square accented with red.
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It was a hard day of traveling as the sastrugi were jagged and high, and the ground definition was very poor as everything was draped with the newly fallen snow of the last nine days.
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Most of my hedges are jungles of the various trees, draped with blackberry, dog-rose, bryony, honeysuckle and wild hop, all scrambling about the branches.
Wildwood
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Dishes were wheeled out with due dignity on well-draped traymobiles.
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Silk and velvet fabrics were draped, swagged, or suspended from ceilings to achieve a graceful yet ordered effect.
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By day she draped herself in strands of multi-coloured beads, while by night diamond cuffs climbed the length of her arms.
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His black jacket was hanging over the footboard to his bed, a string tie draped over it, and a white shirt was laid out on the coverlet.
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A flash-frozen flag of Iberico ham was allowed to thaw at the table and then unfurled and draped blanketlike over a teepee of roasted salsify and a puddle of hazelnut cream, the ham melting into the hot fluted bowl just slightly before the head waiter drizzled it with smoked paprika oil.
Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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Glittery, white snowflakes hung from the ceiling, while along the edges of the bleachers was white gossamer that was also draped over the bleachers.
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The microphone stands were draped with flowing white scarves that swept the stage floor.
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Many of the ancient buildings were draped in gauzy white sheets with a slight outline of the building behind painted in blue or gold.
The Two Continents Of Istanbul
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Others rest in flag-draped coffins or come home strapped to hospital gurneys.
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The outer is then draped over and clipped to the base of inner.
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Along a stretch of one road someone has draped strings of little lights in loops and whorls on a line of trees.
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Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple.
Hocken and Hunken
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Pius XII is standing, in full regalia; his papal cloak envelops him, draped over his shoulders like a protecting towel as if he had just emerged from a swim.
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At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas.
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I've cooked on some very nice barbecues and I've cooked on grills that are basically old toilet bowls or tanks with some metal wire draped across the openings.
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A chain is draped around the rim, and inside the container is a skull, a knife, railway spikes, and a lungoa.
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MacRannoch nodded toward the trees behind me, and I whirled to see a rider making his way carefully through the branches, a bulky cloth-covered shape draped across the saddlebow in front of him.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Dracula appeared, draped in a huge cloak.
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There he is, emerging from the pines, wearing jeans and a white T-shirt draped loosely over his thin but sturdy frame.
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She pulled one of the blankets free, untwisted it, and draped it over me.
Bleeding Violet
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He draped the flag over the body.
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The men were still exquisite, postured with their arms draped over their heads in stillness or lunging and leaping in wild fits as the Tchaikovsky score crescendoed.
Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York
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The leaves of our giant rhubarb have been shown at school, used as fans in hot weather, draped over climbing frames and used to camouflage dens.
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The guards were clad in tough green leather from some jungle beast and draped in weapons.
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Another Cuneo!" groaned Aunt Kathryn, at sight of the hotel in the steep little town of Desenzano, on Lake Garda; but later she apologized to the quaint courtyard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar.
My Friend the Chauffeur
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Instead, he saw a tall woman, draped in rose silk.
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The duchess carried her grandchild to the font, -- a font draped with cramoisy velvet.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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It is a large, traditional room with feature fireplace, heavy furniture and a three-piece suite draped in throws.
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Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of Hawthorne's, in the tale of “Old Esther Dudley,”
A Study Of Hawthorne
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Draped in the union flag, he took what must be the slowest lap of honour in history.
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Ariel has draped some clothing on the tree and Trinculo takes a robe and puts it on.
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Smiling his smile of acknowledgment and gratitude, he draped his long overcoat over her shoulders as he set about making the morning meal.
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She stood in mute shock, dresses draped over her arm.
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Mixed or unmixed fabric, stitched or unstitched, embroidered or unembroidered, and draped or fitted adorned the bodies of monarchs, priests, rebels, and commoners.
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Joanne walked toward him, a mohair stole draped over her shoulders, and did a quick birl for his benefit.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Hydrocarbons may be trapped in anticlines draped over deeply - buried horsts in the pre - deltaic basement.
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Stand her in the middle of a darkened Victorian dining room draped with holiday greenery, a Christmas tree twinkling in the corner.
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It's called "mantled" because it looks as if it's just draped over, or mantling, the topography underneath.
Tucson Weekly
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Also present were dressmaker dummies draped in costumes worn during the performances.
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She is given to wearing dorky cardigans, ominously the sort draped over the shoulders when sitting up in a hospital bed.
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Silk and delustered satin are popular often draped with sheer fabrics - embroidered tulle in light simple designs, organza, chiffon or very fine lace.
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Hers was draped with dusty red velvet, and there was a worn armchair alongside her in the same material.
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The basque and tablier of this dress were of royal blue plush and the draped demi-train was of moiré of the same tint.
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They balance tall bamboo poles draped in filmy fabrics.
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As he stood draped in a flat black cloak and tunic of stitched faces, the old warrior's voice echoed off the inner walls of the ancient oubliette.
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Colour is draped over the client to see what brings out the natural radiance of the skin.
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For honorific statues of emperors and mortals, Romans could be portrayed in togas, in military garb, as naked or half-draped figures after Greek prototypes, or on horseback in equestrian statues.
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The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings.
The Gracious Art of Living
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A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.
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Nicola slowly draped herself across the couch.
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Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.
Folkestone Triennial – review
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All the furniture is draped in grey blankets to make it more sophisticatedly grey.
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He had a towel draped across his shoulders.
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He immediately shucked off his outer coat and draped it over his shoulder.
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When I dived the Borgny, an old trawl net was draped round the stern along the seabed.
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That was all there was in this tiny closet of a room; the naked girl, the undraped, iron-framed bed bolted to the floor, and four bare walls with bare wooden floor.
Red dust
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He reacquired the chain and draped it around his shoulder.
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And how about the murder of all the troops that are coming back in coffins draped with flags?
Think Progress » Snow on Bush Stem Cell Veto: ‘The Simple Answer Is He Thinks Murder Is Wrong’
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Home of the largest collection of modern art in Europe, as the ginormous banner draped over the outside proudly proclaimed.
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What might she be thinking in the picture below, as she is draped in a korowai at the conclusion of her valedictory speech?
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Yesterday, she came along and draped herself completely across both of my arms.
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The ceremony took place in the East Room, in front of one of the windows which was draped with cloth of gold rimmed with curtains, the whole being ornamented with ropes of smilax and Easter lilies.
Princess Alice: The Irrepressible Miss Roosevelt | Edwardian Promenade
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Certainly, at both sets of stalls the procession would halt, garlands would be draped over the Brahmins and political candidates, and more coconuts cracked over the rath.
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The fact is that on the streets of India, certainly by Western standards, most women appear to be draped, swathed and completely covered in fabric.
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She entered wearing a simple draped black pants ensemble with a long red scarf, thus drawing all the attention to her stunning face and baldhead.
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She draped her arms over Zach's and continued to kiss him, loving the soft caress of his lips on hers.
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There, high upon her golden throne, draped in her blazoned 'kaf' or robe of state, sat the fair Nyleptha, and when Sir Henry came in a little late, dressed in the full uniform of an officer of her guard and humbly bent himself before her, she merely acknowledged his salute with a careless nod and turned her head coldly aside.
Allan Quatermain
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Behind them a van draped with garlands crept along, its rear doors open.
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Dust-sheets were draped over the furniture.
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Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders.
Rome's Revenge
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FAIRBANKS - Unfolding a metal antenna and plugging it into a small receiver draped around his neck, Knut Kielland climbed on top of the seat of his Ski-Doo Tundra on a snowmachine trail in the Rosie Creek Flats south of Fairbanks on Monday.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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All would have been well but for the seductions of a certain ice-cream parlor where candy, apples and cigars were temptingly displayed in a window, draped genteely with a fly-specked lace lambrequin.
Chicken Little Jane
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Elspeth had pillows brought in so that they could all sit comfortably, while the gryphons lounged with their forequarters draped over the side of their nest.
Widows and Orphans
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Following the line of the coast the road is narrow, uniformly fringed with spiky gold crotons, banked with thick hedges of frangipani and hibiscus, and draped with feathery casuarina known to islanders as ironwood or Toa.
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The escort carries with him or her a flag during the flight which is then draped over the casket upon arrival.
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Her experiences as wife to the degenerate Glyde are held back from the respectable reader, lest they offend like undraped piano legs in the drawing-room.
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The former soldier's coffin was draped in a Union Jack and carried to St Bartholomew's Church, in Park Lane, on a carriage drawn by two horses.
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Black and red curtains draped gracefully to the floor, resplendent with fierce twining dragons.
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In the spring of 1893 a journalist wrote that she had ‘some strong figure work in her studio, the undraped model being the subject.’
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The tall, zelkova tree beside the pagoda is draped with lanterns on the Buddha's Birthday in May of every year.
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Tendulkar was carried shoulder-high around the ground in celebration by his young team-mates as though a symbol, draped in the Indian flag, of how he has carried the hopes of a nation for so long.
India's defeat of Sri Lanka feels like a destiny fulfilled | Mike Selvey
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He draped his jacket over the back of the chair and sat down to eat.
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Far down the line of brightly painted longboats I saw a fisherman who owned just one net, which he had draped on a tepee of bamboo stalks to dry in the sun.
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Bed linens are draped, layered and pleated in three grand monochrome compositions that achieve the stately sublimity of religious art.
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During the mass, they covered the coffin with a pall, some kind of cloth. we took it off on the way out the door to the church, and then draped the American flag over his coffin.
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Jackson briefly answered a reporter's questions about a chain of sparkling ornaments draped over a gold vest he wore under his black coat.
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His attention left the sleeping women and went to the hand carved, silk draped and beribboned crib.
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Entering with his majestic walking stick and brightly-coloured cloth draped over his arm, Mantose appeared proud and arrogant.
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Plastic bags hung from trees and billowed in the water as they draped from branches along Old Man River.
Plague of Plastics Across the Oceans
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His photograph depicts an androgynous figure (perhaps the artist), eyes shut, wearing white pancake make-up and draped in the American flag.
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He makes a spectacular entrance in act two draped in a gold sheet.
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The galleries were tastefully draped with black cloth, trimmed with white bandeaux, and relieved with a white and black mixed cord, in festoons.
Meetings of Condolence on the Death of President Lincoln
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A cape was draped upon his broad shoulders, a dark shade of ebony as well, in a circle around him reaching mid back and joined in the front by a large red jewel set in silver.
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The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret.
Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler
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The plaid is a length of tartan cloth draped over the shoulder and does not properly refer to the pattern, which is the tartan.
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I tell her what worried me most were the undraped photo-shoots she did for men's magazines such as FHM.
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He stood by the windows, looking out over the great expanse of choppy sea, his tall form draped in something nondescript which might have been a military greatcoat.
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There are bolts of taupe fabric draped on the windows, and the lighting is muted.
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It's draped in bunting and bedecked with country frou-frous.
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Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple.
Hocken and Hunken
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She unzipped her coat, removed it, and draped it over her arm.
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In the center of the small bedroom is a double bed draped with handmade quilts, and the small group of women crowds the narrow spaces surrounding it.
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The railings lined the tented wall behind the head table that was centered before a massive stone mantelpiece draped in tulips.
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And from somewhere beneath a cupboard she produced an enormous canvas draped in a sheet and showed it to me.
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He draped himself in the Canadian flag and went round the track.
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The sky draped as a backdrop for the crimson harvest sun like a painting in a majestic golden frame embellished by great brush strokes from a master's hand.
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But beyond the baize door there were shadows, there was dust, windows draped in cobwebs, before which hung curtains tattered and faded, drooping from their poles like the old banners that, slowly rotting in great cathedrals, sway in the quiet air where no wind is – stirred, perhaps, by the breath of Fame's invisible trumpet to the air of old splendours and glories.
The House of Arden
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The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never -
Gravity's Rainbow
