Sentence examples for under the robe from inspiring English sources

Demolder trained as a lawyer, and his memoirs, Sous la robe (1897; "Under the Robe"), provide a record of the professional and cultural life of a class that was in the forefront of Belgian literary reform.

The prisoner, so frail "there was hardly any hajji under the robe," makes declarations that sound like a jailhouse letter from Ulrike Meinhof: "I have 10 guns and you call me bandit.

He wants to pull her into the bed — he's sure that she is naked under the robe — but he has too horrible a taste in his mouth (beer, cigarettes) to dare to kiss her.

The book is better known to those with half a brain and appreciation of good writing as "Under the Robe," a sentiment that seems to have been uproariously backed up in the scathing and accurate review by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in the New York Times Book Review on Jan . 23

If I cut one under the robe, will anybody smell it?

It'd be a smart idea to wear something under the robe.

"I hope to do better than the men who wear a suit under the robes.

There is nothing under the robes; their hoods are empty caverns of darkness.

When it comes to the unnerving, those two emaciated children under the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ignorance and Want, haunt you.

One slogan was "under the robes, the musty stink of 1,000 years".With the country's first Social Democratic government in 1969, the emphasis shifted to widening access across social classes.

"I have it on good authority," he conceded in one peek under the robes, "that when appellants to the U.S. Supreme Court spend eighty per cent of their time looking at Justice Kennedy," who has gained a reputation as the divided Court's swing vote, "it's annoying".