Raiment Sentence Examples

God will give food and raiment to those who are seeking His kingdom.

Yet men imagine gods to be born, and to have raiment and voice and body, like themselves..

What are the nakedness and the vesture, the shining raiment, the priestly insignia, the girdles?

He mentions their purity, " the same shall be clothed in white raiment.

Their heavenly raiment was so smutty that its original color was indiscernible.

His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

Honor them and clothe them with excellent vestments, not with inferior raiment.

This makes a change from " winter garb " and " winter raiment " but still sounds balmy to me.

The bulk of the Magyar nobility was still semi-barbaric. Immensely wealthy (it is estimated that most of the land, at this time, was in the hands of 25 great families, the Zapolyas alone holding an eighth of it), it was a point of honour with them to appear in public in costly raiment ablaze with silver, gold and precious stones, followed at every step by armies of retainers scarcely less gorgeous.

He mentions their purity, the same shall be clothed in white raiment.

The Bactrian camel is, if possible, of still more importance to many of the central Asian Mongol races, supplying them alike with food and raiment.

She is now depicted as a beautiful and strong woman, with prominent breasts, a golden crown of stars and golden raiment.

In the stillness of the night the Savior appeared to her in bodily form clothed in bright raiment.

Waiters are clad in purple raiment, likewise tables in red cloths.

I have never set eyes on such degrading raiment.

New light, however, has been thrown upon the "intellectual" capacity of Crustacea by the proof that the spider-crabs deliberately use changes of raiment to harmonize with their surroundings, donning and doffing various natural objects as we do our manufactured clothes.

According to E, Moses with Aaron is to demand from Pharaoh the release of Israel, which will be effected in spite of his opposition; in assurance thereof the promise is given that they shall serve God upon this mountain; moreover, the people on their departure are to borrow raiment and jewels from their Egyptian neighbours.

Coloured clothing, gold ornaments and silken raiment began to be worn commonly by Mussulman men in his reign.

Enoch is clothed by Michael in the raiment of God's glory and instructed in the secrets of nature and of man, which he wrote down in 366 books.

Their departure from Egypt is deliberate; the people have time to borrow raiment and jewels from their neighbours.

It was in raiment of camel's hair that John the Baptist appeared as a preacher.

The account of Christ's flesh is torn out of the Key, but it is affirmed that it was at the baptism that "he put on that primal raiment of light which Adam lost in the garden."

That it was proper to wear special garments (or at least to rearrange one's weekday clothes) on the Jewish sabbath was recognized in the Talmud, and Mahommedans, after discussing at length the most suitable raiment for prayer, favoured the use of a single simple garment (Bukhari, viii.).

It is said that to the dead body, crowned and robed in royal raiment, and enthroned beside the king, the assembled nobles of Portugal paid homage as to their queen, swearing fealty on the withered hand of the corpse.

The mixture of races among the inhabitants, especially the presence of numerous Malays, who on all festive occasions appear in gorgeous raiment, gives additional animation and colour to the street scenes.