unrobe

• “YOU, for instance, would not care (pray pardon my bluntness) to unrobe yourself before the public eye; and in the same way, the poor man does not like to be pried at or questioned concerning his family relations, and so forth.”

  Poor Folk

• “Hitherto (I concluded) she had looked upon me in the same light that the old Empress did upon her servant — the Empress who hesitated not to unrobe herself before her slave, since she did not account a slave a man.”

  The Gambler

• “And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.”

  The Fisherman and His Soul

• “But I grieve to say, that my modesty was put to a sore trial, when I began to unrobe.”

  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

• “Mrs. Day extinguished again the candles she had lit, and began docilely to unrobe herself.”

  Mrs. Day's Daughters

• “After being much heated in the atmosphere of the house, he returned to Carlton House to unrobe, put on only a light frock, went to”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

• “Such a character as Doe's must ever love to unrobe itself before a friend; and he continued:”

  Tell England A Study in a Generation

• “What I want to know is, where these gentlemen of the Court of Justice robe and unrobe?”

  Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

• “We will robe you here," said Belvisée, meaning rather to unrobe her.”

  The Forest Lovers

• “This night for the last time mayst thou unrobe me,”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

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