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I will robe for divination,' and pointing her finger towards the dead lamp, it sprang into flame, casting a glare around the room.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard

Now the lonely one unheeded         seeks earth's caverns dim, Never king or princes will robe them         radiantly as him.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

In white they will robe you, and lay you to rest.

From Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Rosenfeld, Morris

And whoever will give us better weapons and better music, and better houses to live in, we will robe him in wealth crown him in honor, and render his name deathless.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Ingersoll, Robert Green