1.   Some one had hung up all these colourful banners, and altar cloths, and pictures of knights and castles.

2.   Matilda was embroidering an altar cloth covered with flowers and birds.

3.   He took off his boots, and stood them tidily, side by side, the toes tucked under the altar cloth.

4.   During the last days of World War II, Meador apparently strolled blithely through Europe lifting lace altar cloths and cutting paintings out of their frames.

5.   Nor were religious objects stinted on, with lavish ornamentation given to gospel books, chalices, altar cloths, censers and other ritual objects.

6.   The fleur-de-lis decorates the altar cloths, and the altar is flanked by statues of Joan of Arc and St. Louis.

7.   The same wheel appears in a silk embroidered altar cloth of immense visual panache.

8.   The Sisters of the Society of St. Margaret were Anglican nuns who ran an embroidery school that turned out ornate altar cloths and ecclesiastical garments.

9.   An altar cloth hides everything above the feet and Lotto never explained why they were there.

10.   It destroyed a piano, chairs, altar cloths and ceremonial cups in the meeting hall, clerics said.