Rob Roy

How To Use Rob Roy In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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?
• 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)
• 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
• I also hope his book is reprinted, the next generation of graphic designer could learn from Rob Roy's knowledge of a forgotten art.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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