What pinking of thin stockings and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribands and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings!
I find myself most nights staring into my empty salad bowl, reminiscing about the days when we'd delicately slice the rib out of eight or nine rubbery leaves; then we'd massage the greens with olive oil, until they became wilted and supple; and then we'd douse them in a rich, garlicky dressing to cloak their horrid essential bitterness.
The mushimono (steamed) is a single oyster cloaked in rich tortoiseshell-colored sauce; the yakimono (grilled) is half a crisp amadai on a long, handmade plate; the sunomono (vinegared) is three neat bites of wakame-wrapped crab, dotted with half a dozen jewel-like salmon eggs.
The rugged mountainsides rise placidly here rather than dramatically, yellow-streaked grey crags showing through patches in the rich green carpet that cloaks them.
Around the same time, her brother, a doctor cloaked in a rich man's coat of many colors, stands on the city docks invoking animal magnetism to whip crowds into a hypnotic frenzy.
I do not want to study law because I want to be rich, or wear an uncomfortable wig and cloak.
Wealthy merchants, in particular, were prepared to risk a fine by flashing a rich red lining to a collar or cloak.
Like the Sphinx, she keeps her mysteries, leading the media a merry dance by speaking only in intriguing riddles, cloaked with the kind of rich symbolism and allegory that requires a keen academic mind to unpick.
But in reality, it's just an elaborate exercise in ruling-class power, the rich versus everyone else, much of it cloaked in Astroturf and liberal sounding "public policy" groups like "Americans for Prosperity," etc.
"Come!" cries the King, "then give him your cloak!" The cloak is made of rich crimson trimmed with ermine and there is a royal scuffle in the street before the King gets it away, to throw to the old beggar, "much to the merriment of all the courtiers in attendance".
