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Usage examples of braided.

Jordan decided we really needed a SR anthology and he wanted to make it into a braided novel.

The riders wore horn-mail over dun uniforms, slit to mid-spine, braided manes flying.

Now, to me, none of the troopers looked clean, and they oiled their braided manes with a pungent oil.

Most had manes braided down the spine but pulled up into a cascading horsetail on the crown of the head.

It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.

While the Gel daThae men wore their hair in braided manes, the women shaved every bit of theirs.

They wear their Northernness like a flag, flaunt their braided hair and their barbaric customs, shout out incomprehensible Northern slogans in City Sessions.

His braided and pinked peascod doublet set off his slender waist to advantage, but gave him a slightly effeminate look.

Exhausted, breathless, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the counterledge.

She stopped and bent down to pick up another white glass polyhedron from where it lay half-hidden in the shadows of a braided mass of coils as big around as her waist.

It was usually braided, pulled off her face, that damnably, unforgettable face with its luminous emerald eyes, its long, straight, lightly freckled nose, and its sassy, pouty lips.

What I do plan to do, incidentally, is slip away under the pretext of being called to a top-level conference on the redeployment of personnel from here and the selection of a substitute base-location, and by the time they finish investigating the circumstances I should have the rope braided to hang Quist by the neck.

When fastened, it would have the look of a loose sacque gown over a braided corset, but in fact the stomacher was part of the bodice, kept snug around the body by laces beneath the loose back.

As was his custom, he had put aside both his hooded scapular and the braided cincture of Haldane crimson and gold before kneeling down to read the final Office of the night.

The sturdiest shelter consisted of a lean-to built of sticks covered by a roof woven of reeds, their clothing was little more than grass skirts and cloaks, cunningly braided together, and they had only one cooking pot among them as well as baskets and sharpened sticks fashioned into spears or fishing forks.