"Vestured" Quotes from Famous Books
... through tangled error * of night-dipt plumes so burned their charge; Swayed and parted the globing clusters * so,—disclosed from their kindling marge, Roseal-chapleted, splendent-vestured, * the singer there where God's light ... — Poems • Francis Thompson
... heed her appeal. Shall she make it in vain? Three weeks in the country for poor BOB and BESS! Do you know what that means, wealthy cit? Can you guess, Dainty lady of fashion, with "dots" of your own, Bright-eyed and trim-vestured, well-fed and well-grown? Well, BOBBY'S a cripple, and BESS has a cough, Which, untended, next winter may "carry her off," As her folks in their unrefined diction declare; They are dying, these children, for food and fresh air, And their slum is much more like a sewer ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 • Various |