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Linda's ermined lips and plucked eyebrows looked like angry slashes in a carved mask.

On its ermined floor reposes a single feathery paddle of satin-wood; but no oarsmen or attendant is to be seen.

Like Eldon, an ermined gown; (4 2.)

'Hangman,' shouted the ermined brute, 'Hangman, pay particular attention to this lady.

The other is a favourite of ermined landowners such as the Prince of Wales precisely because it can, ostensibly, carry its owner as comfortably to a snow-bound shoot as to the opera.

Fleets of small boats attend it while, in his high cabin, the ermined Doge prepares to throw his ring into the waters in token of La Serenissima's perpetual union with the sea.

The walls of many British castles and stately homes are lined with portraits of ancestors wearing the bemedaled uniforms of generals or the ermined gowns of members of the House of Lords.

In the Great Hall hangs a large picture of King Edward VI seated on his throne, in a scarlet and ermined robe, holding the scepter in his left hand, presenting with the other the Charter to the kneeling Lord Mayor.

Sussex was frequently at court, carried the purple ermined robe at the creation of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, 4 November 1616, and bore the orb at the coronation of Charles I on 2 Feb. 1626.