Sentence examples for robe about from inspiring English sources

And what is Jerry Rothlein doing, naked in a chair with his robe about his feet, puffing out his torso on display, raising his elbows to shoulder height and dangling his hands down before his armpits?

What was that dog in ermine robes about?

It was about "antiquity and anachronism, tradition and honor, order and subordination; about glory and chivalry, horses and elephants, knights and peers, processions and ceremony, plumed hats and ermine robes; about chiefs and emirs, sultans and nawabs, viceroys and proconsuls; about thrones and crowns, dominion and hierarchy, ostentation and ornamentalism".

The British Empire, he writes, "was about antiquity and anachronism, tradition and honor, order and subordination; about glory and chivalry, horses and elephants, knights and peers, processions and ceremony, plumed hats and ermine robes; about chiefs and emirs, sultans and nawabs, viceroys and proconsuls; about thrones and crowns, dominion and hierarchy, ostentation and ornamentalism".

It was his financial independence that let him, in his own phrase, soar "in the high regions of his fancies with his singing robes about him".

So let's use the Hobby Lobby decision as a way to educate the men in robes about the many purposes of the pill.

Kimball subsequently repeated his warning at a BYU campus devotional, stating that there were "too many Pharisees among the white [students and faculty]... too many Levites who pull their robes about them and pass by with disdain".

It's a sign of how hazy all this is in business that the moral vision is based on whether shareholders own companies or whether the wealth gets more equitably shared by workers, communities, customers or Uncle Joe: that is between two competing ideas, dressed up in moral robes, about who gets the loot and who calls the shots.

My oldest item is probably a Spitalfields silk open robe from about 1770.

Garde Robe has about 300 members, including a billionaire real estate magnate and his wife, who store 3,000 pieces at a cost of more than $150,000 a year.

Brown is considered "a lesser yellow," so the robe, from about 1770, would have been made for a princess or noblewoman.