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  • The bishops heard it, and recoiled from their robing-room threshold to stand stockstill for a moment, ears stretched, before bearing down in haste upon the south door.

    A River So Long 2010

  • As he went to the robing-room to put on his gown and bands, the usher told him that the

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • As he went to the robing-room to put on his gown and bands, the usher told him that the

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • Formerly he used to wear a flaunting scarf over his surplice, which was very wide and full; and Clive remembered when as a boy he entered the sacred robing-room, how his uncle used to pat and puff out the scarf and the sleeves of his vestment, and to arrange the natty curl on his forehead and take his place, a fine example of florid church decoration.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • My belief, like my disbelief, is suspended together with my hat and old raincoat in the robing-room cupboard.

    Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Mortimer, John 2006

  • So I only went into the robing-room, to give my four brothers joy, and Sir Thomas Mansel, [5] and Lord Windsor; the other six I am not acquainted with.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • The bishops heard it, and recoiled from their robing-room threshold to stand stockstill for a moment, ears stretched, before bearing down in haste upon the south door.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • At any rate, it was probably not before this part of the church had ceased to be used for services that it began to be recognised as a robing-room.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

  • There is no vestibule, portico, or robing-room at the upper end of a fire-escape.

    The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • The robing-room contains a cold bath; it is painted with red and yellow pilasters alternating with one another on a blue or black ground, and has a light cornice of white stucco and a white mosaic pavement with a narrow black border.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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