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"Accoutrement" Quotes from Famous Books

... feet to the accompaniment of rattling spurs. These men were lithe and active, able to dance with amazing grace in chaps and the full accoutrement of the rider. They even wore ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... A pang of disappointment shot through her bosom, and for the moment quenched her sense of relief from terror. With it sank the typhoon of her emotion, and she became able to note how draggled and soiled his garments were, how his hair clung about his temples, and that for all accoutrement his mare had but a halter. Yet Richard sat erect and proud, and Lady stepped like a mare full of life and vigour. And there was Marquis, not cowering or howling as dogs do in spectral presence, but madly bounding and barking as ...

— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... please his amorous egoism—to be placed apart from the rest as a delicate and fragile being only fit for feminine adoration. He preferred to inspire the envy that she had felt on beholding her brother decked out in his warlike accoutrement. It seemed to him that something was coming between him and Marguerite that would never disappear, that would go on expanding, repelling them in contrary directions . . . far . . . very far, even to the point of not recognizing each other when ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... lover's side there hung a strange accoutrement for a warrior, namely, a crystal mirror. He rose a little on his elbow, and gave it into Armida's hands: and in two different objects each beheld but one emotion, she hers in the glass, and he his own in her eyes. But he would not suffer her to look long at any thing but himself; ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt

Words linked to "Accoutrement" : furnishing, accouterment, wearable, accessory, article of clothing, belt, habiliment, trappings, clothing, vesture, wear