Rabot

The only remaining gate is that known as the Rabot (1489), a very interesting and picturesque object situated in a particularly slummy quarter.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

I spent one month from May 13 to June 12 2007 at the Rabot station in Ny Alesund 79. 55° N 12.35 E in north pole area.

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I spent one month from May 13 to June 12 2007 at the Rabot station in Ny Alesund 79. 55° N 12.35 E in north pole area.

Valéry Grancher – North Pole Adventure 2007

Riquette was thrown into transports of grief, and implored her father to prevent the marriage, which Ismenor promised to do; and calling for an ugly and humpbacked little dwarf named Rabot, he performed some spells which transported them quickly to a rocky valley through which the king and his escort were bound to pass.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

Standing behind them, though a long way off, was Rabot; but his dirty clothes had given place to clean ones, when his earnest desire was granted, and the princess had made him head of her stables.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

Meantime Rabot had come up with the others, who never guessed for a moment that he was not their own master.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

He had hardly finished before a blue parrot flew out into the forest; and the magician, mounting in his winged chariot, set off for the Isle of Swans, where he changed everybody into statues, exactly in the positions in which he found them, not even excepting Rabot himself.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

Giving one end to Rabot, and holding the other himself, they walked unseen amongst the horsemen, but not a trace of Lino was to be found.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

Here Ismenor beheld them, all sound asleep; and casting a spell which prevented their waking till he wished them to do so, he stripped the king of all his clothes and dressed him in those of Rabot, whom he touched with his ring, saying: ‘Take the shape of Lino until you have wedded the daughter of the Swan fairy.’

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

Several witnesses, interrupted by denials and explanations from the accused, testified to having heard Hélène say that neither the Rabot boy nor his mother would recover.

She Stands Accused 1935