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He wore the clothes of a laborer, and she was wondrously seductive in a yellow and orange dress.
the worn teddy bear, a tiny suitcase that Jim carried, and the clothes she wore, were all she had.
Roman Emperors and Roman males of the senatorial class wore clothes with a purple band to denote their class so the reference to purple may be to an aristocratic heritage.
When Selkirk's clothes wore out, he made new garments from goatskin using a nail for sewing.
Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.
Napoleon ordered 10 days of mourning throughout France ; in the United States, thousands wore mourning clothes for months.
Ammianus reports that they wore these clothes until the clothes fell to pieces.
He was forced to do women's work and to wear women's clothes, while she wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried his olive-wood club.
In the fields and forests, Audubon wore typical frontier clothes and moccasins " and a ball pouch, a buffalo horn filled with gunpowder, a butcher knife, and a tomahawk on his belt.
The clothes he wore one day he did not wear again till three or four days later.
Some early punks occasionally wore clothes displaying a Nazi swastika for shock-value, but most contemporary punks are staunchly anti-racist and are more likely to wear a crossed-out swastika symbol.
Around 1966, a schism developed between the peacock mods ( also known as smooth mods ), who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods ( also known as gang mods, lemonheads or peanuts ), who were identified by their shorter hair and more working class image.
This was seen in his variety of apparel: he appeared in the costumes of the Bedouin, the traditional clothes of the Iraqi peasant ( which he essentially wore during his childhood ), and even Kurdish clothing, but also appeared in Western suits fitted by his favorite tailor, projecting the image of an urbane and modern leader.
He wore his character's clothes home because most of them were his own.
All of the clothes Malcolm wears during the film are items he wore or touched the evening before his death, which included his overcoat, his blue rowing sweatshirt and the different layers of his suit.
They wore clothes reminiscent of Roman armour, " against the space debris that kept falling onto the planet lost from other places, like television sets and bits of an Iron Chicken ", and they spoke in whistles.
Unlike Athenian women who wore heavy, concealing clothes and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan women wore dresses ( peplos ) slit up the side to allow freer movement and moved freely about the city, either walking or driving chariots.
Glam rock ( also known as glitter rock ) is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter.
Sigismund was known to speak fluent Hungarian, wore Hungarian style royal clothes and even grew his beard as the Hungarians.
As with the First Boer War, since the Boers were civilian militia, each man wore what he wished, usually his everyday dark-grey, light-grey, neutral-coloured, or earthtone khaki farming clothes — often a jacket, trousers and slouch hat.
Peasants commonly wore clothes made of hemp, wool, and ferret skins.
Those who knew him described Shehhi as a very religious and friendly individual who wore western clothes and sometimes rented cars for trips to Berlin, France, and the Netherlands.

wore and with
Above a dark green skirt she wore a pale green cashmere sweater with, as he soon perceived, no brassiere beneath.
He wore tennis shorts and a white sweater with a red V at the neck, the sleeves pushed above the elbows.
He wore a brown knit sports shirt with no tie.
Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.
She had dug a hole for each bulb, each tree wore a tag with her writing on it ; ;
The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.
I wore a new double-breasted brown worsted suit with a faint herringbone design and wide lapels like a devil's ears.
Sometimes she even wore the uniform in solid, unrelieved black, and with her blonde hair cut so closely, wearing this uniform, she strongly resembled a member of the SS..
She wore a court-length gown of organdy designed with bateau neckline and princesse skirt accented by lace appliques.
She wore a gown of satin designed along princesse lines and featuring a flared skirt and lace jacket with bateau neckline.
Each of the children invited to the concert wore a name tag marked with a red, white and blue ribbon.
But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.
He wore a long double-breasted coat of a heavy material, dark trousers, and black boots with buckles.
The girls in the market place wore long-sleeved dresses and covered their legs with cloth stockings.
They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.
Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.
After his death, Pablo Picasso, fascinated with Jarry, acquired his pistol and wore it on his nocturnal expeditions in Paris, and later bought many of his manuscripts as well as executing a fine drawing of him.
When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.
The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides.
Children wore parkas made of downy eagle skin with tanned bird skin caps.
" He went out and saw an angel who wore a girdle with a cross, one resembling the holy Eskiem ( Tonsure or Schema ), and on his head was a head cover ( Kolansowa ).

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