"And now as to your natural question as to what brings me to Earth again and in this, to earthly eyes, strange habiliment . We may thank Kar Komak, the bowman of Lothar.

"Child of levity and scoffing," replied the other; "you err again, misled by these humble habiliments . I am the Rev.

Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.

But this was the way this system of abnegation was paid for: instead of wearing such mean habiliments as his paternal fortunes entitled him to, he was able to appear brilliant, superb, like a young noble of fifty thousand livres a year.

He wore his usual working habiliments , consisting of varipatched trousers, a blue jean shirt, out at the elbows, and a ragged straw hat.

At the head of the notables and of the Horticultural Committee shone Mynheer van Systens, dressed in his richest habiliments .

It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments of a rajah, wearing, as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls, a robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince.

The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.

She therefore replied by glancing over her scant habiliments ; but Clare gently urged her.

Philip passed his hand over the picture as if he wanted to feel the houses and the loose habiliments of the nomads.

Sophia could have no possible suspicion of any falsehood in this account: she therefore mounted resolutely behind the fellow, who conveyed her safe to a town about five miles distant, where she had the satisfaction of finding the good Mrs Honour: for, as the soul of the waiting-woman was wrapt up in those very habiliments which used to enwrap her body, she could by no means bring herself to trust them out of her sight.