Robes

Examples

• So she went on in her neutral tone, as if she had been remarking on baby's robes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And the Brahmins knelt and hid their faces in their robes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The two gentlemen, refreshed by their bath and a hearty meal, were now arrayed in loose, flowing robes of white wool, similar to that of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They relate how he began to wear the robes and tiara of a Persian monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But all the later emperors after Diocletian wore diadems and magnificent robes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There in the wardrobe hung those wonderful robes--pink and blue and many-tinted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her baby had been born prematurely, and all the embroidered robes and caps had to be laid by in darkness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is no devil, I assure you; or if it be, it has put on the robes of an angel of light. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They wore great beards and ringletted long hair, tall caps and long robes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was dressed grotesquely, in glittering robes and shawls fit for a woman; she appeared about ten years of age. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You should be draped in white robes, bear an ivory lyre, and minister to Apollo the Far-Darter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They were in their robes of peace, the white dress of the Order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Another man, Halliwell, who has also investigated the development of the expression, thinks that it was derived from the description of a character in an old play, Jack, Robes on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Weldon