While standing before the bishop of Assisi, Francis stripped off his clothes and renounced his paternal inheritance, Benedict said.

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The switchman lifted his head from the rail, blew his nose, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and adopted a serious, dignified expression.

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Luke Young from Farnborough took off his clothes and jumped into Hawley Lake on Saturday with the pony, which was harnessed to a trap.

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Mr Carr-Gomm is a self-professed Druid and a practitioner of Wicca (a modern form of paganism that can involve a lot of larking around naked) and enjoys stripping off his clothes during country walks.

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They tear off his dusty clothes and clean his body, a symbol of their perseverance.

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His pockets are rifled and his clothes pulled off.

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Presumably, Tom also had picked out his clothes for the meeting--a T-shirt, cut-off jean shorts and flip-flop sandals--and the brand of gum he was chewing.

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She also opened the window to get rid of carbon monoxide fumes and got clothes which Howell used to dress her husband before driving him off in a car with his dead wife.

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While few people expect a pontiff to be elected on the first ballot, the Vatican was ready: In the Room of Tears off the Sistine Chapel where the pope goes immediately after his election, three sizes of white cassocks hung from a clothes rack.

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