How To Use habiliment In A Sentence
- Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
- And all this while they furnished them and garnished them of good men of arms, and victual, and of all manner of habiliment that pretendeth to the war, to avenge them for the battle of Bedegraine, as it telleth in the book of adventures following. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- Catharina, having deckt her child in costly habiliments, layed it in her armes, and came with the servants into the dyning Hall, and sate down (as the Knight had appointed) at the upper end of the Table, and then Signior Gentile spake thus. The Decameron
- The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
- Those idle rimes to note the odious spot and blemish that deformes the lineaments of modern poesies habiliments. Shakspere and Montaigne
- The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the same stale, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, and being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot-cozy. The Waverley
- In the United Kingdom, as in other modern liberal democracies, there are few, if any, estrictions upon one's choice of habiliment. Archive 2008-06-01
- She is a holiday figure, symbolising the significance of the holiday as a circumscribed period during which one can put aside the habiliments of normal existence and adopt another persona, become another self.
- Sure your lordship's habiliment desarves to be as immaculate as your lordship's character. A Dialogue for the Year 2130
- He showed stronger mettle than had been allowed him; bore a manlier part than was commonly ascribed to the slovenly slipshod habiliments and the aspects in which benignancy and vacillation seemed to struggle for the ascendancy. Marse Henry : an autobiography,
