Brangaene-an ugly, large person in a terra-cotta cheese-cloth peplum-had already warned the desperate pair beneath the trees that dawn and danger were at hand.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
"How becoming the white robe and blue-bordered peplum are to her; how softly the azure bombyx ribbon is wound around the thick waves of her hair!
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
He may turn about her head, or lay her peplum in folds without reproof or repulse, and to-day when we had to get past bogs of plaster, and lakes of wet paint, she scarcely picked up the hem of her dress, and never once allowed me-who would so willingly have supported her-to lift her over the worst places."
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers