Like Keffria, she was in her night-robe and wrapper. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
She was in her night-robe and carrying a cup and saucer. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
So she soothed the boy and helped him into his night-robe and stayed by him until his eyes sagged shut. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
Major Mendora, the General's aide, came in with drawn sword, followed by the Inquisitor in his night-robe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
Eurydike lay in the great perfumed bed, in her night-robe of fine mussel-silk, the brideswomen gathered round her. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
In this manner he economized on the cost of a night-robe and the time it would consume to don and doff such a superfluity. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
I bought a funky purple night-robe with tweety-bird on it looking totally up himself whore-bag, which is a look that suits him I think. From Wordnik.com. [26th April '03] Reference
In his fantastic night-robe with its design of a huge fish, ungirdled and wild of eyes, Tatsu rushed through the drowsy streets of Yeddo. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
I stood in my red and gold night-robe, stretched out my arms and turned, like one of the trance-dancers I saw in the streets from my litter. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
With a great deal of trepidation, he had laid out the captain's own night-robe for her, and then hesitantly offered her several bolts of rich cloth from their latest trove. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
A swift furtive glance over her shoulder and her hand stole to the crimson kimono hanging on the brass rail, whilst a jewelled cat's-eye winked cunningly among the embroidery of her night-robe. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
He spoke not a word while his chamberlain exchanged his rich court-mantle for a furred night-robe, and when this officer signified that Master Varney desired to speak with his lordship, he replied only by. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
But the blood-besmear'd night-robe she wore over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Sam asked, as a tall figure in a very short night-robe was for a moment visible. From Wordnik.com. [The Cromptons] Reference
The prostrate figure was that of Lady Lashmore, a loose kimono worn over her night-robe. From Wordnik.com. [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference
She sprang up, locked her door, and began, in her long, white night-robe, pacing up and down. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
In the darkness he had waited until the woman suddenly appeared sitting in the bed in her white night-robe. From Wordnik.com. [Winesburg, Ohio: a Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life] Reference
In surprise at my return, before the forty days were fulfilled, she came to the door hurriedly, in her night-robe, and opened it. From Wordnik.com. [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference
The gentleman in the night-robe wished to detain the party for a recital of his own prowess in giving warning of the attempted burglary. From Wordnik.com. [The Madness of May] Reference
No human creature had ever seemed to him so divinely fair as she in her long white night-robe, over which fell the thick waves of her light hair. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
An hour later, when the lights were out, Josefa, in her night-robe, came to her door and called to the king in his own room across the brick-paved hallway. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
When she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
Somewhere down-stairs a clock was striking three in the morning, when this door softly opened and the daughter stole into Marguerite's room in her night-robe. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
They decorate the room and the bed with flowers, they brush away the dark soft hair, they array her in a dainty embroidered night-robe, and prop her up with pillows. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
At that moment a beautiful maid or woman, in her white night-robe, stood in the little doorway, with eyes so like the richness of his just gone that it must have been his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference
Val Beverley, fully dressed, was kneeling beside Madame de Stämer, who wore a kimono over her night-robe, and who lay huddled on the floor immediately outside the door of her room!. From Wordnik.com. [Bat Wing] Reference
Presently a dear little boy entered in his night-robe, and kneeling beside his father's knee, repeated his evening prayer of thankfulness and of supplication for God's blessing on the country. From Wordnik.com. [My day : reminiscences of a long life,] Reference
He spoke not a word while his chamberlain exchanged his rich court-mantle for a furred night-robe, and when this officer signified that Master Varney desired to speak with his lordship, he replied only by a sullen nod. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Alas! the evil day! "and Mata wiped away some genuine tears on the hem of a night-robe she had finished. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Give the my night-robe, Mena. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Or Annie's night-robe, or beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Many Lands] Reference
On thy tall form I see the night-robe flow. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
In her night-robe, crimson on the left side. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
All in her night-robe Ionic she lay reclined. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem] Reference
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