The image is dark brown in color and covered by a stiff dark blue robe of richly embroidered thick cloth with golden clasps.

For a breathless moment he stood, twisted about awkwardly in his stiff robes, looking uncomfortable and somehow foolish.

He was dressed in the tall crested formal hat and yellow robes stiff with brocade.

One blinked out, and there Rian sat, much as he had first seen her, stiff white robes cloaked by the inkfall of shining hair.

Under the stiff robe her tiny body was as slim as a girl.

The woman heard the soft rustle of stiff, rich robes behind her, ignored them till they stopped, t hen turned.

She knelt down in her stiff new robe stitched with purple and gold brocade, surrounded by a tight circle of four bishops and five elders.

A wasted body was largely concealed under stiff, brocaded robes; all that he could see was the man's wrinkled face, with sharp, intelligent eyes.

The enslaved heroine moved with paradoxical freedom among the cast, dressed in stiff robes and elaborate headgear.