How To Use Rob roy In A Sentence
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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
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“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
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There is also a place nearby called Bannockburn and mountains called Rob Roy and Ben Lomond, so i feel very much at home.
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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.
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Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius.
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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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Rob Roy"; a cantata on "Sardanapalus," and music for the ghost scene in
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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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.
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‘I dinnae know any of the words so I just sang the Sash and told them it was about Rob Roy,’ he said.
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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 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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It bored two drill holes within the licence area but some distance from the Rob Roy field, hoping to find oil which would have been in a new field, but without success.
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One of Stob Chon's men challenged Rob Roy to a duel, and dealt the aging rebel a wound to the arm from which he never recovered.
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I also hope his book is reprinted, the next generation of graphic designer could learn from Rob Roy's knowledge of a forgotten art.
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He was a little boy for a moment: the toys made in Japan, Rob Roy shirts, corduroy knickers, Cod-liver oil and Ovaltine—
A Turlock Moment
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Ay, ay, Jemmy," said he, "'tis easy for you to bid me get on, but how the deuce can I make Rob Roy's wife speak, with such a _curmurring_ in my guts?
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
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How, then, do we account for another footnoted passage, in Chapter 32, referring to the surprise attack by Rob Roy's caterans on the English horsemen under Captain Thornton?
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But over the years, one man's cattle raider has become another man's freedom fighter, and the Rob Roy story has been skewed to mesh with the rise of Scottish nationalism.
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Within the hour her repertoire included Rob Roy, Sidecar, Sloe Gin Fizz, Tom Collins and Comm Collins, (with vodka, so named by Russkie-hating Uncle Nick), and prettiest of all, Harvey Wallbanger, a froth as creamy yellow as the egg custard her mother whipped up for her when she was recovering from flu.
Radium
