He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline.

All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli

[…] the pilgrim enthusiasts of our party […] could scarcely eat, so anxious were they to “take shipping” and sail in very person upon the waters that had borne the vessels of the Apostles.

In the sense of chief cities of colonies, especially in ancient Greece: