Sentence examples for two robes from inspiring English sources

The hotel gets extra credit for automatically supplying the room with two robes instead of one.

On Christmas morning there are two robes - one for each of them.

In it, two robed priests are walking among the empty pews of an imposing church.

The two robed figures presented a striking generational tableau, but I didn't pause then to reflect that Justice Stevens represented an era that had already faded from collective memory, a time when a Supreme Court nominee didn't have to check every box, a time when we could welcome a nominee who might be willing to learn something on the job.

Priam, the Trojan king, assembled "twelve robes, handsome, rich brocades" and "a magnificent cup the Thracians gave him once" as part of a ransom for the return of the body of his fallen son, Hector.

Modern eyes see the bespectacled prelate — tensed in his vermillion robes, suggesting a frozen flame atop a torch — as repellently cruel; but I think that El Greco regards severity as part of the man's important job and a good thing for everybody.

Safe behind the walls of Constantinople, Heraclius was able to sue for peace in exchange for an annual tribute of a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand silk robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins to the Persian King.

Instead of umpires, one robed judge settled disputes.

IN AN old monastic joke, one robed brother says to another: "You know, being humble has always been one of my strong points..."....

But if five of the nine robed judges bend toward history, Carpenter said, the opposition may be as out of options as the justices already are: "Once the supreme court has spoken, it's over".

It took place in the besieged holy city of Najaf last week, when seven robed men of the Shiite religious establishment sat in a circle on the floor of the office of Moktada al-Sadr, the young militant cleric they revile.