vesture

How To Use vesture In A Sentence

• God am mocked and vilipended, and in the house of Herod had received a white vesture. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
• This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is _false_: but what is it to Luther? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• We became a robed choir, so we adopted the vesture of the traditional choir dress.
• This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud.
• His vesture was dabbled in blood - and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
• Compaine notes that Bagdikian obsesses over big media acquisitions but ignores divestures.
• In this country, however, we have not so far been so fortunate, or otherwise, as to attain the Continental ideal of what the graphic portion of a literary performance should be; and the question is intimately associated, particularly in France and among foreign buyers of the French school, who are numerous in all parts of the world, with that of binding, inasmuch as a volume possessing pictorial embellishments of whatever kind must fulfil all requirements in that respect no less than in the outward vesture, and what may be termed the complemental book-plate. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
• Now it is so that Jesu Christ brought us out of this exile in the sixth age, in hope of perpetual life of all them that be revested with the vesture of innocence. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
• Through all the variations in style and genre which this exhibition amply documents, he remains absorbed by the idea that a setting can become a kind of vesture, the vesture project an image, and the image tally uneasily with the human being to whom it is attached. Culture
• Thou dancest in white vestures, and I God am mocked and vilipended, and in the house of Herod had received a white vesture.