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    1. He dressed in his finery


    2. I was sorry for them, so tiny and struggling to breathe, let alone move, under so many layers of finery and ornamentation


    3. faded winter finery in the middle of the flower bed with her head


    4. seated behind an enormous desk, dressed in the finery of


    5. Obviously, a rich man had bought her for his bed slave, but Nerissa hadn’t expected that he’d cover her in finery


    6. Instead of finery, she wore a plain woolen chiton now


    7. In that simple state, the expense even of a sovereign is not directed by the vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court, but is employed in bounty to his


    8. I saw them dressed in finery, on their way to join


    9. So they dressed up in Shelagh's finery and applied a little make-up


    10. In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court

    11. The ignorance of the times affords but few of the trinkets in which that finery consists


    12. resplendent in their finery, acting as though all were perfect in the universe


    13. A semi-circular gaggle of citizens, all dressed in their Easter Bonnets and finery stared down at him


    14. Mother has pulled out all of the finery for your going


    15. Here was Grandfather’s finery


    16. They were mostly finery: silks, ornaments, jewelry, feather work, and textiles, but they looked like they had never been used at all


    17. To either side of the aisle stood the thousands of attendees, wearing an eye-dazzling array of colorful finery


    18. the captain's to a figure who sat upon a great throne and was dressed in all manner of finery


    19. For this event one dressed with utmost care and with the best possible finery


    20. Families sometimes spend their lives in debt to pay for the finery of their child’s first communion

    21. They had each stepped, One at a time, into the image next to fade and on and on through every One, as though to make it clear to me that He Who stood before me now, with long white hair and flowing beard, resplendent in silk finery, was He Who brought me to the Cave


    22. Consider, I say, this fish o' the sea; it has no loom or yarn to spin, yet no king in all his glory could be decked out in all its finery


    23. formally dressed in al his finery with gold chains, ruby rings and


    24. I dressed in all my finery and with mother and Coatl strolled leisurely to the meetinghouse in the square, taking our seats we patiently waited for the room to fill, there was no ceremony, everything was informal


    25. Wearing our finery and treating the occasion with the ceremony it merited


    26. With the help of Gled who merrily chatted away the whole time, mother dressed me in my grandfathers splendid clothing and we made our way to the square, others, decked out in their finery, were going the same way and the journey became a procession, the variety of the colours the candidates were clad in resembled a sky full of rainbows, to make their sons look respectable most of the parents had used up more than one seasons work, that was how important it was to them that their son became a man, this year there were thirty-eight candidates for the coming of age ceremony and being the same age we all knew each other and began to play around pushing and shoving, full of high spirits and confidence, knowing in our innocent childish courage that none of us would fail in our rite of passage, the square was crowded with villagers all in their best attire, and a party mood rippled through the crowd, with everyone chatting away and laughing with their neighbours, children played their games in and out of the grown-ups legs


    27. Since my return, our house has been a bustling place with visitors coming and going all through the day, some to see Mother, some to stand and stare at Coatl who took it in good grace, he seemed to have a special affinity with children, and soon had them riding on his back amid a bedlam of high pitched childish shrieks of fear and excitement, some of the visitors came to see me and ask my advice on a thousand every day problems, this I found difficult to comprehend, a couple of weeks ago I was a child now grownups were asking for my opinions, if the answer to any of these problems were outside my limited experience I always called on the wisdom of my mother, this daily bustle continued for about a month then one day a temple attendant came with a message from Yaotl putting himself forward as my instructor and adviser for the leadership ceremonies, I declined this offer and thanked him for his concern, I told mother of Yaotl’s offer on her return from the market, she spat on the chacmool, called an immediate halt to all social gatherings, explaining to everyone that it was time for me to get ready for the ceremony of official leadership, again my mother instructed me, a new chief was traditionally invested just before the planting started this ensured not only a good harvest but helped the new leader to grow along with the crop, I intended to keep this tradition alive and presented myself to the temple for this purpose, the villagers were all dressed in their finery, drums were beating, people were dancing, it was a beautiful day, and mother had coached me with regards to the moves to be expected from the wizard, I was confident that I was ready for any of the tricks that Yaotl thought he could pull to disrupt my investiture, this day was mine not Yaotl’s, I was no longer the frightened young boy that he expected


    28. He was in a huge space that was spattered with tasteful minimalist finery


    29. He noted the finery and eloquence which had gone into the interior decoration, the El carpet on the floor, the fine furniture, most of it imported, the translucent walls—illuminating the room and giving it that sense of spaciousness, the original Gek paintings, the large monitoring screens and the dual computer readout screens


    30. Blizzards in New England, rather than the usual dogwood blooms, frosted trees struggling to don their own Easter Sunday finery

    31. His armor is still the dark gray he changed it to in the car, and he’s donned no other finery


    32. It has been said that “money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not appetite, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a church but not heaven”


    33. When that task was completed, a woman dressed in court finery came to take my measurements for the clothing I was to wear as a Lady-In-Waiting


    34. ” I smiled and proffered my hand in greeting, glad that neither one of them recognized me in my holiday finery


    35. A woman, in all her finery, lay across the foot of a bed, a formless heap


    36. " He turns to see Goldie sidling up next to him, her wide eyes taking in all the meeting attendants in all their puffed up finery


    37. His life turned out for the best without the benefits of all their manners and finery


    38. A bevy of priests looking splendid in their finery of red and gold-embroidered gowns, golden crosses and silver-covered bibles took their place and the psalmody began


    39. Oh, these qualities can be acquired under the right circumstances but my beautiful couple, that day, was dressed in the finery of a poor Rumanian village and looked so sad and out of place in a luxury hotel


    40. Seven prominent towers of finery

    41. Inside my spirit I was in a state of peace like never before and yet all the wrathful emotions of a man deprived of his lifelong mate existed in a finery of intense emotion that threatened to spill over and color everything with violence, even the blessed moments of this moment of redemption, with the hate I felt for my enemies


    42. In contrast, the finery of the massive building that I was walking through only grew finer in appearance


    43. The world had gone to pot, but there was no lack of finery for the elite, who could still afford their high lifestyles, thanks to the suffering of the many they helped to oppress by means of restrictive government policies and taxes


    44. He was a pastor, if his Sunday finery was anything to go by


    45. Flint led me commandingly into the lobby and I couldn’t but be impressed with the stated opulence of the old world finery about me


    46. the cheapest, but decked out in gutter finery of a special stamp, unmistakably betraying its shameful purpose


    47. The peasant folk, who are naturally malicious, and when they have nothing to do can be malice itself, remarked all this, and took note of his finery and jewellery, piece by piece, and discovered that he had three suits of different colours, with garters and stockings to match; but he made so many arrangements and combinations out of them, that if they had not counted them, anyone would have sworn that he had made a display of more than ten suits of clothes and twenty plumes


    48. Our melancholy grew greater, our patience grew less; we cursed the soldier's finery and railed at the carelessness of Leandra's father


    49. attention, and the neighbours made many remarks on the finery, not honestly


    50. braided shoes, and the rest in proportion, all second-hand finery, and

































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