After throwing over his shoulders his robe-de-chambre Mr. Bennett asked, “Where do you think Livingstone is?”. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
One morning, when promenading in his robe-de-chambre, on a terrace elevated a little above the river, he saw a traveller thrown by a furious horse, from the opposite bank, into the midst of the torrent. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
She reached Moy, quite out of breath, before Lord Loudon and his troops; and the Prince had just time to escape, in his robe-de-chambre, nightcap, and slippers, to the neighbouring mountains, where he passed the night in concealment. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
M. Labat was a good swimmer: he did not stop a moment to reflect on the danger of the attempt, but, ill as he was, threw off his robe-de-chambre, leaped into the flood, and caught the drowning stranger at the moment when, having lost all sensation, he must have otherwise inevitably perished. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
She was sitting in a large arm-chair carefully wrapped up in the folds of an elegant velvet robe-de-chambre. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
Mrs. Mackenzie, in a robe-de-chambre and cap very different from yesterday's, came out eagerly to meet the physician on the landing. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The other hand caught up before her the long skirts of a pretty robe-de-chambre, beneath whose edge a hand's-breadth of white silk shimmered and the toe of a silken mule was visible. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
Bess seized the quilt from the bed and descended into the back yard, clad only in her lingerie for sleeping, a silk robe-de-chambre and satin mules, while I followed, likewise garmented. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bird] Reference
They make a vast parade of measures; but, not infrequently, these are so ill-adapted to the objects proposed, as to put us in mind of Monsieur Jourdain's calling for his robe-de-chambre -- pour mieux entendre la musique. From Wordnik.com. [The Murders in the Rue Morgue] Reference
They make a vast parade of measures; but, not unfrequently, these are so ill adapted to the objects proposed, as to put us in mind of Monsieur Jourdain's calling for his robe-de-chambre — pour mieux entendre la musique. From Wordnik.com. [Tales.] Reference
The father, thus invoked, speedily appeared -- a sturdy old farmer, in a pair of leather breeches, and boots pulled on without stockings, having just started from his bed; the rest of his dress was only a Westmoreland statesman's robe-de-chambre -- that is, his shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
Mrs. Mackenzie, in a robe-de-chambre and cap very different from yesterday’s, came out eagerly to meet the physician on the landing. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The father, thus invoked, speedily appeared — a sturdy old farmer, in a pair of leather breeches, and boots pulled on without stockings, having just started from his bed; the rest of his dress was only a Westmoreland statesman’s robe-de-chambre — that is, his shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
The pantaloons, which thou sayest were made by Bourdon, are an excellent pair of linen drawers, and thy robe-de-chambre is a shroud of no scanty dimensions. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
Bourdon, the daintiest robe-de-chambre ever put together by Rombert -- to say nothing of the taking my hair out of paper -- not to mention the trouble I should have in drawing off my gloves? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
Who are you, pray, that I, Duc De L'Omelette, Prince de Foie-Gras, just come of age, author of the 'Mazurkiad,' and Member of the Academy, should divest myself at your bidding of the sweetest pantaloons ever made by Bourdon, the daintiest robe-de-chambre ever put together by Rombêrt — to say nothing of the taking my hair out of paper — not to mention the trouble I should have in drawing off my gloves? ". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference
Westmoreland statesman's robe-de-chambre, -- that is, his shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
The father, thus invoked, speedily appeared, --- a sturdy old farmer, in a pair of leather breeches and boots pulled on without stockings, having just started from his bed; --- the rest of his dress was only a Westmoreland statesman's robe-de-chambre, --- that is, his shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
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