robbe

• “When we meet them, Jannik, the bad brother, is just getting out of prison -- he's such a screwup he failed even at bank robbe ...”

  Jesse Kornbluth: Brothers Was the Best Film I Saw in 2005; Will the American Remake Be as Powerful?

• “Why then thou wouldest have me to do that to thee, which (as yet) I never did unto any man, namely, robbe thee, to enrich my selfe.”

  The Decameron

• “Which the new crew perceyving, and that their number farre exceeded the other: they followed to robbe them of what they had gotten, accounting it as a present purchase for them.”

  The Decameron

• “Deare Madame Catharina, I am not a little sorry for thy death, although (during thy life-time) I was scarcely worthy of one kind looke: Yet now being dead, thou canst not prohibite me, but I may robbe thee of a kisse.”

  The Decameron

• “Because, as Rovers or Pyrats robbe and take away the goodes of such as they meete withall, even so do we: only there remaineth this difference betweene us, that they never restore what they have taken: which we do immediately afterward, whether it be required or no.”

  The Decameron

• “The king hath alwayes peace with them; but his people goe to the sea to robbe and steale.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Don, by land, when they would robbe such as passed downe the said”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “By reason they are practised to inuade continually, and to robbe their neighbours that border about them, they are very pregnant, and ready witted to deuise stratagems vpon the sudden for their better aduantage.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “NO mischief hath been perpetrated, this many yeres, but by thee Catiline, no pestiferous acte enterprised, without thee: thou a lone, for thy horrible murther perpetrated vpon the citee of Rome, for the spoile and robbe - ries of their gooddes art vnpunished.”

  A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde

• “These good felowes seing this Marchaunt and thinking that he had money about hym, determined to robbe him, when they sawe their aduauntage, and to the intent he should not suspecte them, they rode lyke graue men of honest conuersation, debating with him of honest causes, and faithfull, shewing them selues counterfactely, to be lowly and gentle.”

  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

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