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Men in tunics slipped past, selling glasses of tea, hawking vegetables.

LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #2: Viewing Life from the Roof zhukora1 2008

Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Children dressed in short tunics of the same brightly colored fabric as the warriors 'trousers shrieked in shrill voices, and played incomprehensible games that involved a great deal of running and shouting.

Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

She had a Greek phase, along with brother Raymond, dressed and danced in Greek tunics, poured a small fortune in early box-office receipts into Raymond's illusion of a well to go with their temple on a dry hill facing the Acropolis.

Bad Housekeeping Clark, Eleanor 1969

They now lose their awe-inspiring aspect, and are represented, more especially in Athens, as earnest maidens, dressed, like Artemis, in short tunics suitable for the chase, but still retaining, in their hands, the wand of office in the form of a snake.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

Then came the chariot of the African proconsul, with liveried footmen in front, and Nubian slaves, in short tunics and silver anklets, running beside the wheels.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

It was manned by five islanders, dressed in short tunics of calico.

Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life 1846

As Shai rode in at the rear, beside Tohon, local men gave way: porters bearing sacks of meal or carters pushing barrels that smelled of oil; slaves clad in little more than a loincloth, with scars lacing their bare backs; merchants borne in chairs, who shouted at their bearers as they lurched to one side; a pair of dogs with ears and tails down; a pack of boys in short tunics, hair pulled back into braided horsetails, who slunk away after the dogs.

Spirit Gate 2006

I can’t help wondering how long these performance regimes and initiatives will last before some bright spark has a revelation, and completely scraps performance figures completely – gets rids of body armour, sticks coppers back on the streets in tunics, with whistles (they don’t cause cancer like Airwaves maybe might) and hands them wooden truncheons. on October 7, 2009 at 6: 44 pm Joe Public

How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

I especially like the tip about tunics, that is a great point and a good option.

Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009