Beyond the inner entrance were the two disrobing roomswomen to the left, men to the right where slaves, whose insolence had grown into a cultivated art, exchanged the folded garments for a bracelet with a number.

There was a stir near the bronze door leading to the women's disrobing hall.

At least there was a cynical indecorum in this violent disrobing of the landscape.

Then trembling again, and collecting all its powers, it thrusts open, with an indignant jerk, the rough calyx-leaves, and the beautiful disrobing begins.

I'll parley, and disrobe my thoughts Of this wild frenzy that becomes me not.

Jinks observed, with dignity and severity, that there were customers in the store, who were gazing at Mr. Verty, just as he was about to disrobe.

And who ever, by the most cogent arguments, will be prevailed with to disrobe himself at once of all his old opinions, and pretences to knowledge and learning, which with hard study he hath all this time been labouring for; and turn himself out stark naked, in quest afresh of new notions?

For on both occasions when I visited the sacristy there were several priests either robing or disrobing.

Just outside his door, which he had left ajar, they seemed to turn off into a small adjoining room, from whence came immediately the soft delicious sounds of female disrobing.

Not a spot could appear upon their garments without Mary's notice, and as she always kept changes ready she was frequently disrobing and dressing them up.

As the work of disrobing proceeds, a dark-eyed boy appears with a napkin, which he holds before us, ready to bind it about the waist, as soon as we regain our primitive form.

The beautiful disrobing suggested the persistent and unconquerable delicacy of Nature, who shrinks from nakedness and is always seeking to veil her graceful boughs,if not with leaves, then with feathery hoar-frost, ermined snow, or transparent icy armor.

You have nothing to learn about love!' He gave me one of those disrobing glances of which men who have dedicated their existence to women alone have the secret.

At one stage of her disrobing she breathed a great sigh of relief as she flung a heavy garment from her.

August to October Game Certificates expire, Mystical carpeted earth, with dead leaves of desire, Disrobing earth dying beneath love's fire.

In Gallipoli our soldiers have discovered a new method of annoying the Turk: We go and bathe, in shameless scores Beneath his baleful een, Disrobe, unscathed, on sacred shores And wallow in between; Nor does a soldier then assume His university costume, And though it makes the Faithful fume, It makes the Faithless clean.

I laughed a joyous little laugh, saying, "Hal, we are quits," when, on disrobing for the night, I discovered on my soft white shoulders and armsso susceptible to bruisesmany marks, and black.

Heof the modest sexwould not disrobe in public.

The clink of coins was her most favorable accompaniment; and her giving of self was a sort of disrobing formality.

If your Holiness has a mind to be diverted like a rational Man, you have a great opportunity for it, in disrobing all the Impertinents you have favour'd, of all their Riches and Trappings at once, and bestowing them on the Humble, the Virtuous, and the Meek.

The rules of politeness require that, when bedtime has arrived, the men shall go out of doors to contemplate the stars, while the ladies disrobe and retire.

Drunken with joy, Wu-ban was already disrobing himself of his clothes, when, in the stillness of the night, his ears caught the sound of two people breathing, instead of one.

The travellers, however, were too much exhausted with their night-ride to be critical, the services of disrobing and preparing for rest were quickly concluded, and in less than an hour all were asleep, while Agostino was busy concerting the means for an immediate journey to Florence.

The disrobing seemed to give him little trouble, though he sat dozing at the door of his cell some hours after, as though fatigued by the unusual effort.

There was a faint reviving, I remember; a process of disrobing gone through by the aid of foreign assistance (whose, I recognized not), then I slumbered profoundly and securely through the entire night, to recover no clearness of perception until a late hour on the following morning.