"Robed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we are told and many things more, Of Heaven's fair Jordan, an evergreen shore; Its golden gates ever are standing ajar, Where fall huge burdens we have carried so far; Shining-robed angels there welcome us home, Joyously lead us through fair fields to roam; Heaven alive with sweet praises shall ring, We bow at the throne ...
— Poems - A Message of Hope • Mary Alice Walton
... of Sainte Guillotin are robed and ready. Crash!—and the women who sit with their knitting in front of the guillotine count one. Crash!—and the women ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... fellows." Lucian brings in Aetamacles, a philosopher in his Lapith. convivio, much discontented that he was not invited amongst the rest, expostulating the matter, in a long epistle, with Aristenetus their host. Praetextatus, a robed gentleman in Plutarch, would not sit down at a feast, because he might not sit highest, but went his ways all in a chafe. We see the common quarrelings, that are ordinary with us, for taking of the wall, precedency, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... he cried. "She'd think a grosbeak was a depraved person with a large nose. She'd never dream that it was a black-robed lover, with a breast of snow and a crimson heart. She doesn't care for hungry babies and potato bugs. I shall write that to father. ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... hastened into the churchyard, and the peasants turned anxiously towards him as he came through the pear trees, like the Divine Presence itself robed in white and gold. They crowded about him where he confronted the ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish • Various
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