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He said to me before while we were robing up, he said, “I was in the insurance business.”

From Time • May 26, 2015

“I keep my promises,” he told her, as Irri and Jhiqui were robing them for bed.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

As they were robing Riedel for his burial, a young man came to the door, and asked if he could not make them some pewter spoons.

From The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta)

Here and there, in the side chapels, the priests were robing themselves to attend confession; while the suppliants, in kneeling attitudes, were expecting them by the side of the confessionals.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall