A number of berobed faculty members and guests were assembling.

Which was code for, "Play along with this idiot, and watch what you say in front of our berobed friend.

A berobed figure with a blue face and an enormous baton was larking around the lawn.

Brian Wilson is a berobed prophet on the sands, surfboard under his arm.

They collided and the berobed temple monk stepped back and glared.

But it was not the province of the manager to tell the laoban that the priest had arrived; the berobed one had made that clear.

From fiery gods to berobed villains, Toby Clements selects adventures for all ages.

The bearded and berobed prince was attempting to play it very calm and regal and was not doing a bad job of it.

Room follows empty room: The only human in sight is often a portrait of a berobed Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi perched on a white horse.

Their gaudily berobed guide led them to the right to a heavily carved door guarded by hah a dozen of the brightly smiling young men who were evidently acolytes.

But in his maiden speech to the academy, the berobed anthropologist reminded them that just as they respected the customs of primitive peoples so, too, they should respect those of France.

Baccalaureate is held in Abbey Chapel; the medieval German ode to Academe, "Gaudeamus Igitur" is sung by berobed Seniors and Faculty during the procession.

Berobed men and women wandering the country house or dozing on the camelback sofas are another Ste. Anne's oddity, part of the spa's geniality that at times borders charmingly on decadence.

The amateurish attempts at combat by the berobed students of the unconscious martial-arts instructor were met by a flurry of slashing legs, crashing chops and the whirling manoeuvres of a judo expert.

In a matter of months she had progressed from apples and oranges on a plate, pretty one-dimensional stuff, to rich studies of the old man's head, with a couple of berobed, full-figure paintings to round out the representation.

In an overdue signal to the nation's bewildered Catholics, the Vatican has assigned Bishop Sean O'Malley, a berobed Franciscan friar devoid of the usual hierarchical trappings, to take over the wounded Boston Archdiocese.

The berobed statue in front of the red sandstone building housing the Smithsonian's administrative offices and information center on the Mall, popularly known as the castle, depicts Joseph Henry, the institution's first director and one of the greatest American physicists.

He was promptly jumped on by several caricaturists, including the first great political caricaturist, James Gillray; on Nov. 27 of that year, he depicted a berobed judge with an armload of sticks saying: "Who wants a cure for a nasty wife?

From the castle door emerges the bearded and berobed Duc de Blangis (a character from de Sade's novel) who greatly resembles Jesus, the Christ, who comforts a young woman who has run out from the castle, before he takes her back inside.

Despite the pomp of the reception - the berobed priests, the Knights of Columbus in bushy headdresses, the little girls in white dresses spreading rose petals before the procession - people spoke of St. Therese with familiarity, like an especially close family member and trusted confidante who had unexpectedly become famous.