Draped

Examples

• But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Booth was hurried away into seclusion, and the next morning the city that had been so gay over night with bunting was draped with mourning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes's so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The bed was draped in white; and there, beneath the drooping angel-figure, lay a little sleeping form,--sleeping never to waken! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The town was draped in flags most profusely, and carpets were laid on the cross-walks for the prince to walk on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You should be draped in white robes, bear an ivory lyre, and minister to Apollo the Far-Darter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was a draped doorway, but no door; and as he stopped here, looking in unseen, he felt a pang. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall--cobwebs its unswept ceiling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She stood, not dressed, but draped in pale antique folds, long and regular like sculpture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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