| Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house. |
| At the head of the notables and of the Horticultural Committee shone Mynheer van Systens, dressed in his richest habiliments. |
| The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. |
| Within lay the body, robed in costly habiliments covered with gold embroidery and starred with scintillating gems. |
| Their habiliments belonged to that order which is pointedly termed the decent. |
| By dispensation we own the habiliments of the legal profession — suits, shirts, ties, polished shoes — which we don for those occasions when we must meet with our counterparts in the world outside. |
