Sentence examples for as a robe from inspiring English sources

Nearby, a rushing cataract, beautiful as a robe of shimmering jewels, cascaded into the green valley of the ruins".

To avenge her daughter, she traps Agamemnon in a straitjacket disguised as a robe and, with the help of his kinsman Aegisthus, kills him.

The documents contain a June 2012 e-mail from International Intimates' subcontractor to officials at the Tazreen factory confirming plans to produce a robe and nightgown for Walmart, as well as a robe and pajama set for Sears.

The clerics, she went on – and, by extension, suicide bombers who wrap explosives around their waists – "are vicious in voice, barbaric, angry and blind, wearing death as a robe cinched with a belt".

Shvetambara monks are allowed to retain a few possessions such as a robe, an alms bowl, a whisk broom, and a mukhavastrika (a piece of cloth held over the mouth to protect against the ingestion of small insects), which are presented by a senior monk at the time of initiation.

It is not worn today accept as a robe.

He portrays himself as a robed, monk-like figure, his eyes dots of pain in a hairless skull, his mouth an oval of anguish.

The cult statue there represented Serapis as a robed and bearded figure regally enthroned, his right hand resting on Cerberus (the three-headed dog who guards the gate of the underworld), while his left held an upraised sceptre.

As a robed Franciscan Capuchin friar, the archbishop is opting to emphasize his vow of poverty and share room and board in a working rectory considerably humbler than the palazzo-style estate house of his predecessors.

But equally the longer he remains silent, the more the Church hierarchy comes across as a robed elite, locked in its ivory towers, refusing to come down and talk to those on the street who are desperately unhappy about the way wealth is being distributed in our country.

Other scenes show Faust as alchemist, summoning the servants of Lucifer, who materialize as tongues of flame; Mephistopheles disguised as a leering monk, taking confession from a soldier he proceeds to have murdered; Faust as a robed magician, trailed by apes carrying his train.