How To Use Redoubtable In A Sentence
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During this time, he purchased a farm in Addison, it is supposed of Ira Allen, a brother of the redoubtable Ethan Allen; but the title proved, as so often happened, with the early settlers to be defective.
Log-book of Timothy Boardman Kept On Board The Privateer Oliver Cromwell, During A Cruise From New London, Ct., to Charleston, S. C., And Return, In 1778; Also, A Biographical Sketch of The Author.
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born of a redoubtable family
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Three points down after seven games, he pulled up to equality, only to see his redoubtable opponent draw away again.
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The menu, which is undergoing continuous additions, begins with a potted history of the redoubtable lady, Queen Victoria herself.
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Adam Chang's portrait of Gene Sherman depicts the redoubtable gallerist looking to her left, perhaps a little embarrassed, a little shy, to an empty room seen through a doorway.
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‘If that was the case then they clearly reckoned without Mrs Hiley, a redoubtable lady who has stuck to her guns throughout,’ he said.
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In the end, even the redoubtable grand defender of Tongzhou, Chen Kui, was cashiered for not controlling the highwaymen.
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He had never met a more redoubtable fighter.
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But, seriously, if any player can match talent with the redoubtable Williams this year, it's Rush.
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And what about his equation with his redoubtable father?
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Newcomb, and the redoubtable Sheriff Slack, paunched and scowling, yet genial enough in ordinary social intercourse, together with three assistants — first, second and third deputies Kraut, Sissel and
An American Tragedy
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'Nothing at all, Edie dear; leastways, that is, nothing to speak of,' said her mother, coming up from the shop hot and flurried from her desperate encounter with the redoubtable Miss Luttrell.
Philistia
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John Updike, John Irving and the redoubtable Mailer believed the white-suited novelist had become overly concerned with the passing fads of the social scene.
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In theory, at least, a candidate with a uniform, rank and military résumé should be redoubtable: a symbol of strength, patriotism and resolve, and at least somewhat inoculated from the debilitating personal attacks that have come to represent American politics.
February 2006
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Once again Peters delivers an irresistible mix of archeology, action, humor and a mystery that only the redoubtable Amelia can solve.
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters: Book summary
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A sportsman to his fingertips, the redoubtable John Joe has left many of us with some tremendous memories of his hurling and footballing feats.
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In 1926, a redoubtable woman called Miss Elsie Wagg laid the foundations for the National Gardens Scheme.
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And this doctrine is perhaps the more redoubtable, because it harms all sorts of men; not only the heroic and self-reliant, but the obedient, cowlike squadrons.
Lay Morals
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Descendents of the redoubtable frontierswomen who could shoot the testicles off a stampeding buffalo, reshingle the roof, chop wood, milk the cows and still have time to have a hearty meal on the table for her carrousing gun-totin 'husband when he got home.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Most of Victory's stunsails have been cut away, but it was her stunsail booms that became entangled with the rigging of the Redoubtable when she put her helm to port and ran onto her.
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Returning to his Morris chair and the redoubtable lapboard astride it, Grey resumed being the most successful and popular author of his age.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West
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Tonight Villiers faces the most redoubtable opponent of his boxing career.
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This idea seems to gain support also from the fact that certain Eastern peoples, whom modern civilization declares to have uneducated tastes, still employ many herbs which have dropped by the wayside of progress, or like the caraway and the redoubtable "pusley," an anciently popular potherb, are but known in western lands as troublesome weeds.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
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League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince.
A Child's History of England
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Border's redoubtable team had all but been humbled.
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Yet the redoubtable pensioner not only saved herself, but also rescued a band of 25 Jewish children from almost certain death.
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Despite his odd profession, and his generally humane views, he is as tough and as passionate as Caesar, and a redoubtable adversary to him.
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The name may not be immediately familiar to you, but Nesbitt was one of British television's most redoubtable character actors throughout the 1960s.
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Since my present need was to temporise, and give the impression that I might be talked into their ghastly scheme, I played it as they would expect from the redoubtable Flashy, indignation forgotten, narrow-eyed and considering, asking shrewd questions: How could they be sure Franz-Josef would offer us bed and board?
Watershed
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Our protest against racing festivals in wartime has roused some redoubtable opponents, but we are satisfied that it represents a sound and widespread public sentiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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_employe_ which Balzac was to rehandle so often, but drops suddenly into brigands stopping diligences, the marriage of the heroine Annette with a retired pirate marquis of vast wealth, the trial of the latter for murdering another marquis with a poisoned fish-bone scarf-pin, his execution, the sanguinary reprisals by his redoubtable lieutenant, and
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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On the side farthest from him was the French vessel, ‘Redoubtable’, its mizzen top garnished with sharpshooters about 15 metres from the Admiral.
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In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade.
Vignette: A Writing Exercise « Write Anything
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The redoubtable Artimus Pyle, drummer, is at his crispest.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD : Gimme Back My Bullets « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
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The diplomatic architect of the new Italian state, Count Cavour, was a redoubtable trencherman who would later have several dishes named in his honor.
Delizia!
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Not until Richard usurped the throne in 1483 did Henry's prospects brighten, his cause sustained largely by his redoubtable mother.
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General Byng's attack covered the whole length of what had become known as the redoubtable and supposedly impregnable "Hindenburg line," so called because it had been established by that greatest of all German military geniuses, Field Marshal von Hindenburg.
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
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He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing.
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Only the redoubtable Sam Smyth succeeded where all others failed.
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Lucien watched this Dauriat, who addressed Finot with the familiar tu, which even Finot did not permit himself to use in reply; who called the redoubtable Blondet "my boy," and extended a hand royally to
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Sure, they are redoubtable opponents, but brawny, one-dimensional teams deficient in natural ability will not seriously challenge the world's best.
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A few years before this, Swinburne's friend, the redoubtable equestrienne Adah Mencken, had complained to
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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In accommodating the redoubtable spine of the side Strachan inherited, only Aliadiere of the summer striking signings was deployed from the start.
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The Police Foundation Report by the redoubtable Lady Runciman provided the intellectual credibility for declassifying cannabis.
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No one can help admiring the good sense and powerful, if limited, logic of the redoubtable opponent of the Précieuses and champion of formalism; he has all the qualities of a splendid fighter, and in spite of his crushing power of inventive he was far too wise to be bitter; but his enthusiasm for literary law and order makes him support all that is most unlyrical in poetry.
Introduction
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It is a projecting knob, like a bung closing an orifice, which is believed to conceal a cavern where the redoubtable captain placed a few barrels of his wealth.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 09 : as to buried treasure
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But, Charles having got over to Scotland where the men of the Solemn League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince.
A child`s history of England
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While the taxmen ponder what would be acceptable, the club - smack bang in the middle of a redoubtable promotion drive from the Third Division - faces the not inconsiderable problem of how to fund itself during this coming week.
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He is a redoubtable fighter.
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Ms. Miller — the redoubtable, doubtable New York Times scoop artist — was on the phone Monday afternoon, giving an interview on her way to get an interview.
Times' Judy Miller, In Contempt, Says She Won't Budge
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But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
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Thompson also says his friend, the "redoubtable" Chris Sparks of Sparking Design, has launched the "Team Cul de Sac" fundraising site for Parkinson's research.
TEAM CUL DE SAC: Richard Thompson launches cartoon campaign to fight Parkinson's
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This poorly regarded army produced some outstanding leaders and redoubtable soldiers, and several developments had long-term importance.
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The mosquitoes of Loreto have a deserved reputation for driving away such visitors as do not care to leave much of their blood with the redoubtable diptera.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Lucien watched this Dauriat, who addressed Finot with the familiar tu, which even Finot did not permit himself to use in reply; who called the redoubtable Blondet “my boy,” and extended a hand royally to Nathan with a friendly nod.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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She was a redoubtable woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even a staunch admirer of Turner, the redoubtable art critic Brian Sewell wrote at the time the Tate was mounting its campaign to save The Blue Rigi painting from being sold abroad: This is just bloody silly.
A legacy Turner would have approved of | Charles Saatchi
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Then, in 1988, he attracted his own ITV series, written by the redoubtable Keith Waterhouse.
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In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade.
Vignette: A Writing Exercise « Write Anything
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Along with responsibility for a spectacular collection he takes on a redoubtable managerial role.
Times, Sunday Times
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A good motto for builders engaged in bloating up Coucil contracts but I suspect the Godwin prize has to day been won by the redoubtable Mr. Thornhill.
Fight ! Fight ! Fight !
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It is the inspiration for the story of a redoubtable guy who has seen an injustice and has been dedicating a part of his life to correcting it.
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Fortunately the redoubtable Ms. Hillary is not diabetic, as chocolates are high on the prohibited list, as are the so-called ‘diabetic’ chocolates or the chocolate substitute carob.
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The redoubtable chefs have prepared an expansive range of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes to satisfy the true gourmets.
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Redoubted > Doughty, valiant, redoubtable deraign > {Challenge; fight a contest in order to settle a dispute} 3 And clash their shields, and shake their swords on high,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The goalkeeper is one of the few redoubtable characters in this England squad, but he looked somewhere between furious and distraught.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third station is Verbena, once owned by Bo's redoubtable grandmother, and which Bo intends to reclaim.
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His father was Louis VIII, of the Capet line, and his mother was the redoubtable Queen Blanche, daughter of King Alfonso of Castile and Eleanor of England.
SAINT LOUIS, CONFESSOR, KING OF FRANCE
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a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic
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It was his redoubtable mother Jan who brought him and his elder sister up alone after his father ran off when he was three, who nurtured his talent for showing off, singing and performing in the pub she ran.
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(I was told a dramatic story about employees of the New Orleans Museum of Art taking refuge with their families in the redoubtable beaux-arts pile and being rescued by the National Guard, but apparently little art was lost.)
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Apres le Deluge, Moi
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Punctual to the moment, the railway train, conveying the redoubtable genius, glid into the well-lighted, elegant little station of Laverick
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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The redoubtable chefs have prepared an expansive range of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes to satisfy the true gourmets.
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The redoubtable Mainland has kept a beady eye on proceedings at the George Street fringe venue for eight festivals, but feels it is about time to move on.
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Earlier Monday, Morgan, 45, appeared on The View, and genuflected to Walters' redoubtable interviewing abilities to the point of knee pain.
Piers Morgan Debuts on CNN; 25 Years To Go?
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The eldest actually flinched when Simon called the redoubtable Mrs. Frederick by her first name.
Generous Death