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He may even be the Anti-Christ himself, in a deception like Pal patine pulled on the Republic in Star Wars, revenge of the Sith!

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Hugh de Pateshall walked before with the patine, clothed in a dalmatica; and the Earls of Chester, Lincoln, and Warren, bearing the swords, preceded him.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Corot, it is true, had never been afflicted with the preoccupation of combining the freshness of nature with the _patine_ with which ages had embrowned the old gallery pictures; but Daubigny, looking at nature with a more literal eye than

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

The softened electric light suffused a glamour of glowing color over the rich brocade of the walls of Marcus Gard's library, catching a glint here and there on iridescent plaques, or a mellow high light on the luscious patine of an antique bronze.

Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909

Her mouth, tender and rather full, seemed to smile a welcome, and the patine, unspoiled by any casts having ever been taken, gleamed as the finest of skin.

Halcyone Elinor Glyn 1903

Age, while bestowing on this garment a patine worthy of a Renaissance bronze, had deprived it of whatever curves the wearer's pre-Raphaelite figure had once been able to impress on it; but this stiffness of outline gave it an air of sacerdotal state which seemed to emphasize the importance of the occasion.

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1899

Il est vrai que je prefere un gris argente, mais le ton chaud de Freiburg fait bien et il a gagne une certaine patine avec les annees.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

Without being told, one knows that he delights in all beautiful things -- pictures with their faërie false presentment of forms and life; the flesh-firm outline of marble, the warmth of ivory and the sea-green patine of bronze -- was not the poop of the vessel beaten gold, the sails purple, the oars silver, and the very water amorous?

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

If I have any such, I will not cast it on the road as I walk, but present it on a fair patine to him to whom I may think it well to show it.

Unspoken Sermons Third Series 1824-1905 1889

"Au musée du Luxembourg, vient d'être placé, de M. WHISTLER, le splendide _Portrait de M.e Whistler mère_, une oeuvre destinée à l'éternité des admirations, une oeuvre sur laquelle la consécration des siècles semble avoir mis la patine d'un Rembrandt, d'un Titien ou d'un Velasquez."

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868