Sentence Examples

1. It was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings on each horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram for as the cart was thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything that was on it.
2. Leading it were two hideous demons, also clad in buckram, with countenances so frightful that Sancho, having once seen them, shut his eyes so as not to see them again.
3. One of the students carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau, what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of ribbed stockings the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with buttons.
4. At this moment an official crossed over, and approaching Sancho threw over him a robe of black buckram painted all over with flames of fire, and taking off his cap put upon his head a mitre such as those undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wear and whispered in his ear that he must not open his lips, or they would put a gag upon him, or take his life.