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Sunday was hot and humid and as I dragged my weary feet through the greenery of Hyde Park, wishing that I could strip off my shorts and shirt and plunge into the cool pool of water running through a shaded cove in the park, I came upon a Middle Eastern family on a similar stroll, the boys and men all dressed in cool white tobes, the women swathed in black abayas.

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Sunday was hot and humid and as I dragged my weary feet through the greenery of Hyde Park, wishing that I could strip off my shorts and shirt and plunge into the cool pool of water running through a shaded cove in the park, I came upon a Middle Eastern family on a similar stroll, the boys and men all dressed in cool white tobes, the women swathed in black abayas.

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Those who take-the'whtte-tobes achieve greater power, ulti­mately, tharfuiose who wear the red or the black, but you pay a price.

Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

The Arabs eyed the Kerdie huts, now visible on the sides of the mountains, with longing eyes, and, contrasting their own ragged condition with the appearance of the Sultan of Mandara's people in their rich _tobes_, observed to Book-Haloum that what they saw pleased them; they would go no further; this would do.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They were handsomely dressed in Soudan _tobes_ of different colours -- dark blue and striped with yellow and red; bournouses of coarse scarlet cloth, with large turbans of white or dark-coloured cotton.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A negro dwarf, measuring scarcely three feet, the keeper of her keys, sat before her, richly-dressed in Soudan _tobes_.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

This shade was removed, and something alive was discovered on a carpet, wrapped up in silk _tobes_, with the head enveloped in shawls, and nothing but the eyes visible.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The travellers saluted him with a discharge from their muskets, and while he went on shore, Richard arrayed himself in an old naval uniform coat, and his brother in the handsomest dress he possessed; their attendants put on new, white, Mahommedan _tobes_, while the British flag flew from the bow of their boat, so that they might show him all the respect in their power.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The principal commerce consists in native produce, viz., cotton cloth, woven and dyed here and in the neighbouring towns in the forms either of _tobes_, the oblong piece of dress of dark colour worn by the women, or plaids of various colours, and the black _litham_.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847