Knocks over, so to speak

Usage examples of robs.

He robs for them, he lies by them, and he organizes them so that they make hunger strikes, and they follow it without chistar.

In other words, the money I do not owe it, and of which it robs me, pays for the persecution which it inflicts upon me.

In the same way as a bandit chief who neither kills nor robs with his own hands, but has murder and robbery committed in his presence, by which he substantially profits, not by proxy, but personally, through the well directed blows ordered by him.

The man selected to command this escort is the vilest and most brutal reprobate in the army, Dutertre, a coppersmith foreman before the Revolution, next an officer and sentenced to be put in irons for stealing in the La Vendée war, and such a natural robber that he again robs his men of their pay on the road.

As I said to you, it only robs things that can be useful for their companions of the LaSalle.

If there aren't any principles any more—and I guess the doc is right, because there sure aren't—if there aren't any rules to this game and it's only a question of who robs whom—then I've got more votes than the bunch of you, there are more workers than employers, and don't you forget it, boys!

There are only two modes of living left to us today: to be a looter who robs disarmed victims or to be a victim who works for the benefit of his own despoilers.

Well, I'm the man who robs the poor and gives to the rich—or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich.

Is it his rapacity which robs the husbandman, ravages the fruitful fields, and wastes the earth, or is it the rapacity of those who govern?

He robs the trains and he gives the money away to the poor and they DON'T STARVE!

And then the Outlaw himself rushes amongst them, robs them and runs off to give it to the poor.

The novel begins once again in the past, 1966 to be exact, when a meek bank teller named Arta Casilighio robs the bank where she is employed, then escapes on the cargo ship San Marino.

Man who robs the Wacketshire station of the New York & Quebec Railroad.

The novel begins once again in the past, 1966 to be exact, when a meek bank teller named Arta Casilighio robs the bank where she is employed, then escapes on the cargo ship San Marino.