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  • Like living jewels they darted in thousands upon thousands, round like Chinese lanterns, slender like bullets, raimented in colors which glowed with life and the light-splitting quality water imparts, some on fire with scales of gold and scarlet, some cool and silvery blue, some swimming rag bags gaudier than parrots.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

  • Does Seneca or the Psalmist, Plato or Paul, Rousseau or Wesley, the idolised, high-salaried, soft-raimented preacher of a wide gate and broad way to life and Heaven, or the veteran soul-winner,

    When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle

  • Youths and maidens, garlanded and gayly raimented, go about fifing and piping, and trolling the chosen songs of spring.

    The God of Love 1898

  • In front of us, within the garden, a joyous crowd of the radiantly raimented laughed over dainty food set on snowy cloths.

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • Obelisk occupied so prominent a position, and, fixing his eyes attentively on this spot, saw that it was filled to overflowing with a dense mass of people, whose white-raimented forms, pressed together in countless numbers, swayed restlessly to and fro like the rising waves of a stormy sea.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • She took down his words with anxious humility, for she looked upon him as a god sphered on Olympian heights -- and what socially insecure young woman of lower-middle-class England could do otherwise in the presence of a torturingly beautiful youth, immaculately raimented, who commanded in the great house with a smile more royal and debonair than that of the master thereof, Member of Parliament though he was, and Justice of the Peace and Lord of the Manor?

    The Fortunate Youth 1914

  • She took down his words with anxious humility, for she looked upon him as a god sphered on Olympian heights -- and what socially insecure young woman of lower-middle-class England could do otherwise in the presence of a torturingly beautiful youth, immaculately raimented, who commanded in the great house with a smile more royal and debonair than that of the master thereof, Member of Parliament though he was, and Justice of the Peace and Lord of the Manor?

    The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

  • Professor Anastasius Papadopoulos, resplendently raimented, with the shiniest of silk hats and a flower in the buttonhole of his frock-coat, received us at the door of a small house, the first-floor windows of which announced the tenancy of a maker of gymnastic appliances; and having kissed Madame Brandt's hand with awful solemnity and bowed deeply to me, he preceded us down the passage, out into the yard, and into a ramshackle studio at the end, where his cats had their being.

    Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

  • However stoical the Lady may have been, the reader is too seriously sympathetic with her inevitable discomfort — “All raimented in snowy white

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

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