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Rob Roy

NOUN
  1. a manhattan cocktail made with Scotch whiskey
  2. Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)

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  • It was not, strictly speaking, as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations, but as a sort of contractor for the police; in Scottish phrase, a lifter of black-mail. Rob Roy
  • “Not perfectly prepared, a perfect Rob Roy has equal parts sweet and dry vermouth!” she says as she stands up, throws her foxhead stole around her shoulders and storms out. Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch
  • There is also a place nearby called Bannockburn and mountains called Rob Roy and Ben Lomond, so i feel very much at home. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Rob Roy succeeded in becoming a legend in his own lifetime of 63 years and was compared with Robin Hood while he was still alive.
  • Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius.
  • 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
  • Rob Roy"; a cantata on "Sardanapalus," and music for the ghost scene in A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Scientists are predicting the demise of the ginger barnet, for so long a characteristic of Scots from Rob Roy to Robin Cook, because of racial mixing.
  • ‘I dinnae know any of the words so I just sang the Sash and told them it was about Rob Roy,’ he said.
  • 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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