How To Use Macgregor In A Sentence
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“The MacGregor,” his son stated, “had been called out upon a trysting with a Lowland hallion, who came with a token from” — he muttered the name very low, but I thought it sounded like my own.
Rob Roy
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A secretive millionaire Rangers fan has bought a castle, once used as a hideout by Rob Roy MacGregor, to be closer to his beloved Ibrox Park.
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He accused Mr MacGregor of "sleight of hand".
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Highlanders; (quaere, Alan, dost thou derive the courage thou makest such boast of from an hereditary source?) and stories of Rob Roy Macgregor, and
Redgauntlet
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Presidents in ordinary times have fewer opportunities to exercise what James MacGregor Burns has referred to as transformational leadership.
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The trip to the Far East will be a new experience for the Bromborough lad, who won the MacGregor Trophy last year and was capped against Italy and Scotland.
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The MacGregor," his son stated, "had been called out upon a trysting with a Lowland hallion, who came with a token from" -- he muttered the name very low, but I thought it sounded like my own.
Rob Roy — Complete
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'By the way, 'said Morgan,' the name of the gulch is a corruption; it should have been called "MacGregor's.
Can Such Things Be
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Neil MacGregor, the BM's eximious director and presenter of Radio 4's "History of the World in One Hundred Objects" , accurately stated that "this exhibition is a fantastic example of collaboration between the British Museum and its partners across the UK.
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
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He accused Mr MacGregor of "sleight of hand".
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'The taed may tell the poddock (frog) what the rottan (rat) did i' the taed's hole, my lord, 'said MacGregor, whom independence, honesty, bile, and drink combined to render fearless.
Robert Falconer
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Whether fearful of their escape, or incensed by some sarcasms which they threw on his tribe, or whether out of mere thirst of blood, this savage, while the other MacGregors were engaged in the pursuit, poniarded his helpless and defenceless prisoners.
Rob Roy
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The Earl of Argyle’s service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the inbringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of
Rob Roy
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The singing was a queer, ragged noise — an earnest booming from Mr Macgregor, a kind of shamefaced muttering from the other Europeans, and from the back a loud, wordless lowing, for the Karen Christians knew the tunes of the hymns but not the words.
Burmese Days
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In his magisterial book on leadership, James MacGregor Burns describes the intellectual as someone concerned with ‘values, purposes and ends that transcend immediate needs’.
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MacGregor had trailed her maligned "fluffiness" away to the drawing-room, and Nevill and Stephen had strolled with their cigarettes out into the unearthly whiteness of the lily garden, Stephen felt that something was coming.
The Golden Silence
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Previously, MacGregor used experimental methods to analyse the stresses.
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Two clerks who had witnessed the scene, and a chaprassi, were sent along to Mr Macgregor’s office to corroborate the story.
Burmese Days
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MacGrégor or McGrégor (before G, the c is lost: * Məgrégor) machétê * məshétty machìne - sh - machísmo mátch - or mətch - (the 'tch' sound reflects the word's Spanish origin; some speakers however give it an Italian 'k' sound) mácho mátch -
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Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport.
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For all his sharkskin suits and his finger-snapping, MacGregor suggests Gig Young more than Rock Hudson, never mind Cary Grant.
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'Willie MacGregor's had eneuch, mem, an' a drappy ower. '
Robert Falconer
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Still, the grammatical rule, Macgregor points out, is that the adjective, when qualifying two nouns of different genders, agrees with the masculine or feminine noun rather than with the neuter noun, irrespective of position.
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Maïeddine to reach there first, so they stopped by the chott, and lunched from a smartly fitted picnic-basket Lady MacGregor had brought.
The Golden Silence
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Previously, MacGregor used experimental methods to analyse the stresses.
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The Lawers Burn issues from the lochan and legend has it that an outlawed Macgregor once hid in a cave behind a waterfall of the burn.
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He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
Waverley
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Wandered into a bookstore yesterday and found this book by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, supposedly a grimoire he translated from original French and Latin of a manuscript in the Library of Paris in the early nineteen hundreds.
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Donald, a Macgregor's bowerbird, lives in the dark woods of the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea. Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.
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Questioned about the suggestion Day had lusted after her, MacGregor replied: ‘I can't put Robin in the category of red-hot lovers.’
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Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that the smile was not about the issue he was raising.
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NEIL MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has rejected calls to return the Lewis chessman to Scotland.
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Questioned about the suggestion Day had lusted after her, MacGregor replied: ‘I can't put Robin in the category of red-hot lovers.’
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MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless;
Rob Roy
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Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army colonel well known in national-security circles for his often-pointed criticism of military strategy, said the U.S. needed a broader re-think of strategic priorities, steering clear of interventionist policies and scaling back U.S. military forces that remain garrisoned in Europe and Asia.
Panetta Faces Big Budget Challenges
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MacGregor had no right to the title ‘Sir’ and, far from being a hero of the Napoleonic wars, he had been cashiered out of the British army without ever seeing a shot fired in anger.
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Roy MacGregor, while largely acknowledging that Stephen Harper seem to have little but contempt for Parliament, insists that no one but Parliament Hill reporters and opposition MPs much cares about prorogation, which is hard to pronounce and just plain boooooring.
Why have a Parliament anyway?
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Note 20: Bellew's enumeration is quoted in MacGregor, pp. 505 – 7.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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'I'll be gettin' a bit leave afore we gang to the Front,' said Macgregor, as though the months of training were already nearing an end.
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While the manuscripts and etchings of the 19th century had already identified it as a marvel, the development of first steamships, and then the railways and air travel, made it what Mr. MacGregor calls "on a planetary scale, one of the more remarkable things humans do.
The British Museum's Pilgrimage
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Keith Joseph stressed that MacGregor was the best of forty - five candidates for the job.
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Based on the best-selling novels by Sherrilyn Kenyon (written originally under her penname of Kinley MacGregor) comes Lords Of Avalon: Sword Of Darkness #1 (of 6), a thrilling new limited series adapted by Robin Gillespie and featuring art by Tommy Ohtsuka!
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Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport.
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'_An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth_,' so Donald Macgregor muttered to himself as he strode cautiously down the water of Coquet, halting at the many crooks of that wayward water to spy out the land as he went forward.
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