"Sendal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... banner in his hand, and the Mayor and the Sheriffs, following him to the door, presented him with a horse of the value of L20, garnished with a saddle of his arms and covered with a sendal of the same. They also delivered to his chamberlain L20 sterling for his charges of that day. Holding the banner in his hand, Fitzwalter mounted the horse presented to him, and, as soon as he was ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell
... him into the rich palace or castle, and strips him as naked as when his mother bore him, and bathes him in lukewarm water, and anoints him all over with sweet-smelling unguents, and clothes him in a shirt of the softest sendal, all scented and perfumed, while another damsel comes and throws over his shoulders a mantle which is said to be worth at the very least a city, and even more? How charming it is, then, when they ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... To tell a tale world-wide apart From that the Student had just told; World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old, As well beneath the snow-white fold Of Quaker kerchief, as within Sendal or silk or cloth of gold, And without preface ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... ropes of sendal, Such as gleam in ancient lore, And the singing of the sailor, And the answer from ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
