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  • Sit thee down on his counter and salute him and say to him, ‘Give me the face veil228 thou hast by thee orfrayed with gold:’ for he hath none handsomer in his shop.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Moor, clad in splendid attire and riding a she mule with a pair of gold embroidered saddle bags on her back and all her trappings also orfrayed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And all those robes be orfrayed all about, and dubbed full of precious stones and of great orient pearls, full richly.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And alle tho robes ben orfrayed alle abouten, and dubbed fulle of precious stones and of grete oryent perles, fulle richely.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And alle tho robes ben orfrayed alle abouten, and dubbed fulle of precious stones and of grete oryent perles, fulle richely.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • They then carried in a larger chair of gold and placed upon it a carpet with cushions of orfrayed work and after a time they withdrew.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Sit thee down on his counter and salute him and say to him, 'Give me the face veil [FN#228] thou hast by thee orfrayed with gold:' for he hath none handsomer in his shop.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • And alle tho robes ben orfrayed alle abouten, and dubbed fulle of precious stones and of grete oryent perles, fulle richely.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • The father abode with her three days, and then farewelling her returned to his capital; and she on his departure bade her slave-girls distribute the couches about the saloons placing in each one a seat of ebony plated with glittering gold, whose legs were of elephant's ivory, and over one and all they reared canopies of silk and brocade adorned with jewels and precious metals and bespread them with mattresses and cushions and pillows, and over the floor of the palaces they laid down carpets whereupon was orfrayed this couplet,

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Then they left the great bazar and went on till they came to the silk market, where they found silks and brocades, orfrayed with red gold and diapered with white silver upon all manner of colours, and the owners lying dead upon mats of scented goats 'leather, and looking as if they would speak; after which they traversed the market-street of pearls and rubies and other jewels and came to that of the schroffs and money-changers, whom they saw sitting dead upon carpets of raw silk and dyed stuffs in shops full of gold and silver.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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