Garbed, old style

Usage examples of drest.

For thof he was drest out so vine, I question whether he had got a voot of land in the world.

I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion.

He mentioned one evening, "I met David coming off the stage, drest in a woman's riding-hood, when he acted in The Wonder.

If Burke should go into a stable to see his horse drest, the ostler would say--"we have had an extraordinary man here.

How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!

Jones now walked downstairs neatly drest, and perhaps the fair Adonis was not a lovelier figure.

Indeed, it took no long time in preparing, having been all drest three days before, and required nothing more from the cook than to warm it over again.

Jones, who was drest in a suit of fustian, and had by his side the weapon formerly purchased of the serjeant.

Nightingale, who was now ready drest, and full as sober as many of my readers will think a man ought to be who receives a wife in so imprudent a manner.

Neither law nor conscience forbid this project: for the fellow, I promise you, however well drest, is but a vagabond, and as proper as any fellow in the streets to be pressed into the service.

Jones very well drest, and hearing that the accident had happened in a duel, treated his prisoner with great civility, and at his request dispatched a messenger to inquire after the wounded gentleman, who was now at a tavern under the surgeon's hands.

When she was drest, therefore, down she went, resolved to encounter all the horrors of the day, and a most disagreeable one it proved.

Vpon the top of all his loftie crest,A bunch of haires discolourd diuersly,With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest,Did shake, and seem'd to daunce for iollity,Like to an Almond tree ymounted hyeOn top of greene Selinis all alone,With blossomes braue bedecked daintily.

It was a chosen plot of fertile land,Emongst wide waues set, like a litle nest,As if it had by Natures cunning hand,Bene choisely picked out from all the rest,And laid forth for ensample of the best:No daintie flowre or herbe, that growes on ground,No arboret with painted blossomes drest,And smelling sweet, but there it might be foundTo bud out faire, and her sweet smels throw all around.

She her beholding with attentiue eye,At length did marke about her purple brestThat precious iuell, which she formerlyHad knowne right well with colourd ribbands drest:Therewith she rose in hast, and her addrestWith ready hand it to haue reft away.