Cloak Sentence Examples

I put on my cloak and hood and went out.

She pushed back the hood on her cloak to meet the man's gaze.

She had a new cloak, one that appeared as soft as her other one.

There he is lying back in an armchair in his velvet cloak, leaning his head on his thin pale hand.

One of the guards draped his cloak around her.

A tall man who wore a long red cloak seemed to be the leader of the company.

Xander stroked the cloak draped over his mother's arm.

Like the others this fifth man seemed calm; he wrapped his loose cloak closer and rubbed one bare foot with the other.

He took off his wet felt cloak in a corner of the room, and without greeting anyone went up to Denisov and began questioning him about the matter in hand.

She dismounted and tossed the cloak over the horse's saddle, looking for the face she sought.

He forced himself out of his senses and draped the cloak over his mother.

Again he covered himself up with his cloak, but now neither the lodge nor his benefactor was there.

All this cloak and dagger thinking wasn't accomplishing anything.

Sometimes in the south during the cold season they wear a cloak of skin or matting, fastened 'with a skewer, but open on the right-hand side.

The chasuble or planeta (as it is called in the Roman missal), according to the prevailing model in the Roman Catholic Church, is a scapularlike cloak, with a hole in the middle for the head, falling down over breast and back, and leaving the arms uncovered at the sides.

He didn't pause for their coats, so she bypassed the cloak room and crossed her arms as she exited the warm house.

The night was moonless and the dark covered them like a cloak the deeper they descended into the blackness of the gorge.

The stranger placed silk-lined gloves on the ground and removed her cloak.

When he finished carefully feeding it to her, he curled up beside his mother under the heavenly cloak.

The sense of falling once more made him clutch the cloak.

He sat in thoughtful silence for a long moment before he retrieved the rich stranger's cloak.

He placed the cloak over her body and covered her face, not wanting to get dirt in her dark hair.

A loose woollen coat reaching to the knees, and bound round the waist by a thick fold of cotton cloth, forms the dress of the men; the women's dress is a long cloak with loose sleeves.

Rhyn was alone on the island sanctuary in his dreams and awoke to the feeling that his magic had slipped even more from its binding.  His body was hot from the inside out despite the cold rain falling in the forest.  The fire had died overnight.  He pushed the waterproof cloak off him.

Another over-dress of the Romans was the paenula, a cloak akin to the poncho of the modern Spaniards and Spanish Americans, i.e.

The chromosphere, which surrounds the photosphere, is a cloak of gases of an average depth of 5000 m., in a state of luminescence less intense than that of the photosphere.

Requesens was only "a gentleman of cloak and sword" (caballero de capa y espada), though by the king's favour he was "grand commander" of the military order of Santiago in Castile.

For the rest of his reign Henry was ruler of all the old dominions of the Conqueror, and none of his subjects could cloak disloyalty by the pretence of owing a divided allegiance to two masters.

The belief, that the grant of liberty to all religions was only intended Jamess to serve as a cloak for the ascendancy of one, was so dedarastrong that the measure roused the opposition.

The word "cope," now confined to this sense, was in its origin identical with "cape" and "cap," and was used until comparatively modern times also for an out-door cloak, whether worn by clergy or laity.

The men wear a tarbush with white roll, a black under-robe with white girdle, a short loose jacket, and when necessary an aba or parti-coloured cloak over all.

He wears a long ragged cloak and an old wide-brimmed hat, so you can't see his eyes.

It's a magician's cloak, that turns inside out to become a monk's habit.

For a moment as he was rearranging his cloak Pierre opened his eyes and saw the same penthouse roofs, posts, and yard, but now they were all bluish, lit up, and glittering with frost or dew.

It was similar to the colonial cloak, except it had sleeves, which sported deep cuffs.

He is commonly represented standing, dressed in a long cloak, with bare breast; his usual attribute is a club-like staff with a serpent (the symbol of renovation) coiled round it.

As an article of women's dress a mantle now means a loose cloak or cape, of any length, and made of silk, velvet, or other rich material.

The word is derived from the Latin mantellum or mantelum, a cloak, and is probably the same as, or another form of, mantelium or mantele, a tablenapkin or table-cloth, from manus, hand, and tela, a cloth.

Then he threw his head back, and drew his cloak over it.

He drew the cloak from his face, and looked steadily at Archias.

The Moon in Greek myths loved Endymion, and was bribed to be the mistress of Pan by the present of a fleece, like the Dawn in Australia, whose unchastity was rewarded by a gift of a red cloak of opossum skin.

Pulling the hood up again, she draped her cloak over the Tiyan seal on her horse's saddle and urged it forward.

Vara stood alone on the cliff's edge at the boundary of Oceanan and Tiyan, clad in a crimson-lined cloak.

He became aware of the subtle movement of air beneath the front door, the cloudlike cloak clenched in his left hand and gritty dirt beneath his right, the trickle of blood down his throat to his gullet.

The tailor replaced his cloak of black, and the man with the flaxen beard proffered him a little glass of some refreshing fluid.

Pulling her tattered cloak around her shoulders she proceeded up the steps.

As the Ottoman Turks lost ground to the West, they increasingly donned the cloak of the Caliphate.

They wore a red cloak with a shield of the arms of St George on the left shoulder.

L took off all her (black) clothes and put on the Goddess ' black hooded cloak.

For ordinary times they would just wear a simple woolen cloak over their tunic.

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him.

Believe it or not, an invisibility cloak is one subject of these new collaborations.

And a velvet cloak drags across south Ontario and falls here on the small brick farm house.

The figure of Jesus with the eleven disciples safely held in the shape of his cloak represents the safety of a boat.

The cloak is made of cashmere with velvet applique and silk embroidery in an art nouveau style.

The original cloak is too fragmentary to prove the point.

I peered out from beneath the slightly fusty smelling brim of the old green satin cloak.

He quickly threw open his cloak to peer in dismay at the pile of popcorn pooled in his pelvic girdle.

She has been healed just by touching the hem of his cloak.

I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring, I've swallowed the magic potion.

I would bet the fifty quid I'd get for this gig that the cloak would be green.

Finally a little Vomit Brown was very lightly stippled over the bottom of the skirt and cloak as a final highlight.

But it threw an almost theatrical light on the man who stood outside the cloak room in the corridor.

The bride A pure white gown worn under a cloak of rich, red velvet to keep out the chill.

Poverty of expression is apt to cloak the real spirit of primitive prayer, and the formula under which its aspirations may be summed up, namely, "Blessings come, evils go," covers all sorts of confused notions about a grace to be acquired and an impurity to be wiped away, which, as far back as our clues take us, invite interpretations of a decidedly spiritualistic and ethical order.

The chasuble, like the kindred vestments (the 4€Xbvtov, &c.) in the Eastern Churches, is derived from the Roman paenula or planeta, a cloak worn by all classes and both sexes in the GraecoRoman world (see Vestments).

Over the left shoulder and fastened with a brooch hung the loose cloak (brat), to which the Scottish plaid corresponds.

Though at first his long hair, his threadbare cloak and his staff furnished the subject of many a jest, and his harsh and overbearing manner caused grave discontent, yet the rapidity and decisiveness of his movements, won the sympathy and respect of the Syracusans.

The merchant put the gold in a bag of purple silk which he tied to his belt underneath his long cloak.

Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking off his cloak.

Sonya came along, wrapped in her cloak.

Go to Matrena Matrevna and ask her for the sable cloak.

The valet brought a woman's fox-lined cloak.

Filled with fright he opened his eyes and lifted his head from under his cloak.

The fifth man was the factory lad in the loose cloak.

Beside Denisov rode an esaul, * Denisov's fellow worker, also in felt cloak and sheepskin cap, and riding a large sleek Don horse.

I would bet the fifty quid I 'd get for this gig that the cloak would be green.

This is where dense spruce forests cloak the sheer canyons for which the Park is famous.

The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels.

Nattie could n't tell who it was or even how old he was- his wiry frame was swathed in a long dark cloak.

Cloak - Worn over the shoulders as a coat There were two types of cloak.

The intrigue of this character is the fact that when you take away the cloak, the underground lair and the impressive technology - Bruce Wayne is just a regular guy.

If your daughter insists on wearing a revealing dress indoors make sure she covers up with a beautiful wool cloak or full-length dress coat with matching muffler when she is outdoors.

Some of the butterflies attracted to the milkweed nectar are Monarchs, Mourning Cloak, Tiger Swallowtail, and Viceroy.

Comma, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and Tiger Swallowtail are all drawn to the butterfly bush.

Elm trees attract Comma, Mourning Cloak while Willows attract Viceroy.

Another popular cross style features a cloak draped over the cross, a symbol which signifies the resurrection of Christ.

Like the cloak, it featured a collar, cape and was knee-length or longer.

You can add a cloak if you like for interest and warmth, and a circlet and necklace.

You can also wear a dark cloak instead of wings, if you like, and heavy black boots and makeup.

You may need to modify a simple cloak pattern or tunic pattern from your local craft store.

It's a cloak that he's perfected since early childhood when he realized how much his roar frightened other children.

The young man believes the image he captured is the shape of a male figure wearing a cloak, but one visitor to the site believes the image is simply a flag carried by a tour guide.

Suddenly, its name no longer seemed appropriate, so Farm Bureau Mutual shed its small-town cloak and became Nationwide Insurance.

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Each Draper had a varied number of tailors, two squires, and a brother to care for his pack animals and his four personal horses.Originally each Knights Templar was given a mantle, a white cloak and a wool shirt.

You haven't yet learned how to cloak yourself.

The attendants then withdrew, and while Henry was reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak.

He then snatched the obnoxious bill from the clerk, put it under his cloak, and commanding the doors to be locked went back to Whitehall.

The closeness of the connexion is illustrated by Juvenal's epigram that a Cynic differed from a Stoic only by his cloak.

He wore a cloak and carried a staff and a wallet, and this costume became the uniform of his followers.

He then gave a sealed paper to Ayaz, begging him to hand it to the sultan in a leisure moment after 20 days had elapsed, and set off on his travels with no better equipment than his staff and a dervish's cloak.

Lucien also gathered together a small group of the younger deputies to throw the cloak of legality over the events of the day.

The insignia of the equites were, at first, distinctly military - such as the purple-edged, short military cloak (trabea) and decorations' for service in the field.

Quite distinct from the spiral is the old Babylonian cloak, which was thrown over the left shoulder, passed under the right 1 See e.g.

The XXaiva was a heavy woollen cloak worn in cold weather.

In time of war this cloak was carried with the army in the field, and was kept in a tent which itself came to be known as a cappella or capella.

In Ine's Laws we hear only of the hwitel or white cloak, which was to be of the value of six pence per household (hide), and of barley, which was to be six pounds in weight for each worker.

The chief garments were the coat (roc), the trousers (brec), and the cloak, for which there seem to have been a number of names (lofa, hacele, sciccing, pad, hwitel).

The smallest are used for glove linings and the others for opera cloak linings.

But he frequently describes an ideal character of a missionary sage, the perfect Stoic - or, as he calls him, the Cynic. This missionary has neither country nor home nor land nor slave; his bed is the ground; he is without wife or child; his only mansion is the earth and sky and a shabby cloak.

Their tents are made of black goats' hair and their principal covering is a cloak of the same material.

The Brahman holds all nature to be the vesture or cloak of indwelling, divine energy, which inspires everything that produces awe or passes man's understanding "(Sir Alfred C. Lyall, Brahminism).

On the first opportunity Bacon rose and briefly pointed out that the earl's plea of having done nothing save what was absolutely necessary to defend his life from the machinations of his enemies was weak and worthless, inasmuch as these enemies were purely imaginary; and he compared his case to that of Peisistratus, who had made use of a somewhat similar stratagem to cloak his real designs upon the city of Athens.

We complain of the unjustifiable odium which has been cast upon us by interested and dishonest persons, under the cloak of religion, whose testimony is believed in England to the exclusion of all evidence in our favour; and we can foresee, as the result of this prejudice, nothing but the total ruin of the country.'

In Rome they wore the toga, perhaps girded up; on a campaign and at the celebration of a triumph, the red military cloak (sagulum); at funerals, black.

We see him full of tenderness to animals, a virtue not common in Italy in spite of the example of St Francis; open-handed in giving, not eager in getting- "poor," he says, "is the man of many wants"; not prone to resentment - "the best shield against injustice is to double the cloak of long-suffering"; zealous in labour above all men - "as a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death."

At the end of the first year of training, the ephebi were reviewed, and, if their performance was satisfactory, were provided by the state with a spear and a shield, which, together with the chlamys (cloak) and petasus (broad-brimmed hat), made up their equipment.

His somewhat ostentatious assertions of impartiality do not cloak a marked preference for the Burgundians in their struggle with France.

She sports the latest black lace trimmed cloak, and carries the essential accessory - her twiggy broomstick!

He still wears his out-of-doors cloak and he sits down with a certain weariness.

But we have to picture him as anon coming out and gathering about him a tatterdemalion company, and jesting with them until they were in fits of laughter, for the sake of observing their burlesque physiognomies; anon as eagerly frequenting the society of men of science and learning of an older generation like the mathematician Benedetto Aritmetico, the physician, geographer and astronomer Paolo Toscanelli, the famous Greek Aristotelian Giovanni Argiropoulo; or as out-rivalling all the youth of the city now by charm of recitation, now by skill in music and now by feats of strength and horsemanship; or as stopping to buy caged birds in the market that he might set them free and watch them rejoicing in their flight; or again as standing radiant in his rose-coloured cloak and his rich gold hair among the throng of young and old on the piazza, and holding them spellbound while he expatiated on the great projects in art and mechanics that were teeming in his mind.

Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened indifferently to his wife's chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also come into the hall.

Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the remains of supper.

He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head.

Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on all sides, moved across the bridge.

Nesvitski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated by the living mass of moving infantry, Vaska Denisov, red and shaggy, with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily over his shoulder.

He reined in his horse with the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his saber which had caught in his cloak.

In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose.

Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed by the fire.

Napoleon, in the blue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals.

And having taken off his cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess' apartment.

She understood all that awaited her only when, after stepping over the red baize at the entrance, she entered the hall, took off her fur cloak, and, beside Sonya and in front of her mother, mounted the brightly illuminated stairs between the flowers.

This person was a gray-bearded old man in a woman's cloak, with a tall peaked cap on his head.

They told her where the barn was and how she should stand and listen, and they handed her a fur cloak.

He slipped his arms under the cloak that covered her head, embraced her, pressed her to him, and kissed her on the lips that wore a mustache and had a smell of burnt cork.

In his large study, the walls of which were hung to the ceiling with Persian rugs, bearskins, and weapons, sat Dolokhov in a traveling cloak and high boots, at an open desk on which lay an abacus and some bundles of paper money.

Why, she'll rush out more dead than alive just in the things she is wearing; if you delay at all there'll be tears and 'Papa' and 'Mamma,' and she's frozen in a minute and must go back--but you wrap the fur cloak round her first thing and carry her to the sleigh.

Dolokhov, without answering, took the cloak, threw it over Matrena, and wrapped her up in it.

Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.

Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and--now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it--set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.

The Rostovs' footman rushed eagerly forward to help him off with his cloak and take his hat and stick.

Even before he saw her, while taking off his cloak, he heard her.

Prince Andrew in his riding cloak, mounted on a black horse, was looking at Alpatych from the back of the crowd.

He felt ashamed, and with one arm covered his legs from which his cloak had in fact slipped.

On the ground, beside the trunks, sat a thin woman no longer young, with long, prominent upper teeth, and wearing a black cloak and cap.

Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow.

Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides.

Morel, a short sturdy Frenchman with inflamed and streaming eyes, was wearing a woman's cloak and had a shawl tied woman fashion round his head over his cap.

He dug his dirty hands into the depths of the folded cloak, relishing the feel of it, then hugged it.

The measure proved to be the deportation of the leading Jacobins; and a cloak of legality was cast over this extraordinary proceeding by a special decree of the senate (avowedly the guardian of the constitution) that this act of the government was a "measure tending to preserve the constitution" (5th of January 1801).

The principle of the twofold nature of truth 1 thus embodied in Occam's system was unquestionably adopted by many merely to cloak their theological unbelief; and it is significant of the internal dissolution of Scholasticism.

While stationed at Amiens he divided his cloak with a beggar, and on the following night had the vision of Christ making known to his angels this act of charity to Himself on the part of "Martinus, still a catechumen."

Deane was slain by a cannon-shot by the side of his colleague Monk, who threw his cloak over the mangled body.

Luther, who believed that the peasants were trying to cloak their dreadful sins with excuses from the gospel, exhorted the government to put down the insurrection.

Used for cloak linings, stoles, muffs and trimmings, also for embellishment of British state, parliamentary and legal robes.

The purple cloak which Picus wore fastened by a golden clasp is preserved in the plumage of the bird.

The gardener put his hand under his cloak and drew out the very bag that the merchant had lost.

The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his breeches and arm.

The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.

When he entered Rome in triumph, his sister recognized a cloak which he was wearing as a trophy as one she had herself made for her lover, one of the Curiatii.

It has always been politic for powerful states to facilitate and hide schemes of aggrandizement under euphemistic expressions; to cloak subjection or dependence by describing it in words inoffensive or strictly applicable to other relations.

The monument, which cost £200,000, is surmounted by an equestrian statue of the emperor in a martial cloak, his right hand resting on a field marshal's baton, reining in his charger, which is led by a female genius of peace.