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Take he for gift, if him content, this worn-out threadbare robe,
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Addressing the crowd in a white full-length traditional robe,
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And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Still I changed not my apparel, still I wore my bezan robe,
Stories in Verse Henry Abbey
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One moment I place your two bright pearls against my robe,
The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems Edward Powys Mathers 1915
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Kus-ke-lar a Clatsop man his wife and a small boy (a slave, who he informed me was his cook, and offerd to sell him to me for beeds & a gun) visited us today they brought some anchovies, sturgeon, a beaver robe,
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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For if they should, I will unfold my solemn black robe,
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904
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"You are wrong," returned the king, playing with the jewels on his robe,
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The figure is of about one-third life size, and was originally draped, the author was told, in a loose robe,
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Oh, wait till I put on my robe, wait till I put on my robe,
Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Mary Frances 1874
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