Robbing
['rɔbiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rob
Typed by Agatha
Examples
- We caught her in the act of robbing Sir Pitt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ay, answered Isaac, but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Since you was accused of robbing a man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Accused of robbing a live man! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And what if I had been accused of robbing a dead man, Gaffer? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To wile away the time till your father comes,' he said,--'pray is there much robbing and murdering of seamen about the water-side now? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Rector, I have been a great sinner, I know, still I don't think there are many actions I regret so much as robbing you of your wife. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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