Sentence examples for a dark cloak from inspiring English sources

The video features a single figure, covered in a dark cloak and a death mask, who gestures to several different visual codes.

This supposedly happened a thousand years earlier, but the luxurious clothing styles of St. Helen and others who crowd the picture are contemporary; the unfortunate detainee wears a dark cloak as per governmental regulations of the time.

To play the doctor, Hartnell wore long white hair, a ribbon tie, a striped waistcoat with a watch fob, a dark cloak, a streaming white scarf, and, on top of his head, a black hat that, according to a recent BBC America blog post titled "How to Dress Like the First Doctor," "looks a little like a tea cosy".

Outside the home or in the presence of strangers, women still cover themselves with a dark cloak known as an ʿabāyah and cover their heads with a scarf called a shāl, which may also serve as a veil (ḥijāb or burquʿ).

There's also no evidence of a ghost writer, a fact one gathers partly from endearingly effortful phrases such as "the streetlights bled the shadow of [the fox's] tail along the pavement behind him like a dark cloak", and partly because a ghost writer might have suggested occasionally stepping up the pace a bit.

The great Italian theater actress Eleonora Duse, making her first and only film appearance at age 59, in "Cenere," chose to portray an illiterate mother living in a stone hut in Sardinia, deprived of all possessions except a dark cloak and her regal dignity.

Her journey recalls the 12th-century Spanish traveller Benjamin of Tudela, who gives details of Jewish communities in cities en route to the Holy Land, which are represented in Cities by Jerusalem in "the glow of a June sun, / until the desert night drops / a dark blue cloak over the streets".

The angel was wearing a beautiful dark cloak, which had golden threads woven through it and the internal light of the angel seemed to shine through these threads.

After drinking the magic cocktail she has brewed, the queen's hair turns white, her hands become gnarled with age ("Look, my hands!"), her voice turns into a throaty cackle ("My voice!"), and finally she emerges from under her dark cloak as a hunchbacked crone.

As an athlete, Tyson misplaced his dark cloak of invincibility fifteen years ago in Tokyo, when a wan and pillowy pug named Buster Douglas knocked him out.

The Grim Reaper, the very personification of death, is usually depicted wrapped up in a dark, hooded cloak, as is the Ghost of Christmas Future in Dickens's A Christmas Carol.