Slowly he parted the black drapery around the bed.

He crept from his hole and stood, hidden by the black drapery, beneath the scaffold.

What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran, watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery?

Frix, who still stood dreamily in her black draperies, was saying in a husky, faraway voice, "Alarums and excursions.

Abruptly the black draperies were shaken by a companion motion behind them.

It was no giant bird or monstrous hybrid, but a woman muffled in black draperies with long, pendant sleeves.

Parker waited, hidden by black draperies just to the side of the entrance.

They are usually females, wearing black drapery and perform the acts of crying on death of a person.

"For now," Lyam said, and Naitachal got up off the floor and seated himself across from the Captain, rearranging his black drapery.

She gave a sudden pirouette on her toes, and her black draperies swung out.