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Robin Hood
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  • "That's their Robin Hood attitude."†   (source)
  • What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, or El-ahrairah—The Prince with a Thousand Enemies—is to rabbits.†   (source)
  • Robin Hood, repeat, Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • Our game ended, we link arms and roam through the tall trees, past a group of younger girls who are playing Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • "My good man," I heard John Miller say, in a faux Robin Hood voice, "you have done your duty."†   (source)
  • She plopped it on the floor, opened it, and pulled out a small brown hat with a feather in it, the kind that Robin Hood wore.†   (source)
  • They spent that summer reading among the rushes by the river, the pine trees in the forest, and the sprouting stalks of the wheatfields, discussing the virtues of Sinbad and Robin Hood, the bad luck of the Black Pirate, the true and edifying stories from the Treasury of Youth, the worst meanings of the words that did not appear in the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, the cardiovascular system in illustrated plates where you could see a man with no skin and all his veins and…†   (source)
  • It was all pointy and chock-full o' turrets, with narrow slits for cute Robin Hood arrows, and other windows with many tiny panes of glass.†   (source)
  • The uprising was crushed, but Fedon was never captured; he vanished into the mountainous Grand Etang and became a Robin Hood–like legend.†   (source)
  • This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness.†   (source)
  • I'll get Robin Hood out of the barracks.†   (source)
  • You know, your basic Robin Hood-style castle.†   (source)
  • Helen said, "She's been watching Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • There were the fairy tales—Grimm, Andersen, the English, the French, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; and there was Aesop and Reynard the Fox; there were the myths and legends, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and St. George and the Dragon, even the history of Joan of Arc; a whack of Pilgrim's Progress and a long piece of Gulliver.†   (source)
  • Direct, no running around Robin Hood's barn.†   (source)
  • Mostly I wanted to nock, bend, and loose all in one motion as Rufo had done—to look like Robin Hood even though I was not.†   (source)
  • I wish I could tell them, I'm your Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • Finding the church turned out to be a chase around Robin Hood's bam.†   (source)
  • That caused me to hang upside down and lost me my Robin Hood hat and more arrows.†   (source)
  • Robin Hood?†   (source)
  • Malachy and Michael look shocked over the way I got the bread and lemonade but then Malachy says it was only what Robin Hood would have done, rob the rich and give to the poor.†   (source)
  • With his black leather breeches and jerkin, his hunting knife, and his bow and quiver, he might have been Robin Hood's evil, better-looking brother.†   (source)
  • When Robyn came to Notyngham,
    Sertenly withouten layn,
    He prayed to God and myld Mary
    To bryng hym out save agayn.
    Beside him stod a gret-hedid munke,
    I pray to God woo he be!
    Fful sone he knew gode Robyn,
    As sone as he hym se.
    Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, No. 119)
    Hazel sat on the bank in the midsummer night.†   (source)
  • Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive.†   (source)
  • Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • No, that's not fair; the great black Tower had no styles, else I would have been as out of style in my fake Robin Hood getup.†   (source)
  • From Robin Hood on down to now, that's been considered highly moral.†   (source)
  • I have heard of you, often, when they tell Saxon stories in the evening, of you and Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • "You call him Robin Hood," explained Kay in a superior tone.†   (source)
  • "But it is Robin Hood in the stories," said Kay.†   (source)
  • No relation to Robin Hood I suppose?†   (source)
  • The only chap, reflected Sir Ector, who could be really useful in showin' the King's huntsman proper sport was that fellow Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • Come along, Robin Hood, or whoever you are—you may think I don't know, but I do— stop leaning on your bow with that look of negligent woodcraft Putt yourself together, man, and get that muscle-bound sergeant to help you carry her.†   (source)
  • I am Robin Hood, as thy caitiff carcase soon shall know.†   (source)
  • But we'll play Robin Hood—it's nobby fun.†   (source)
  • I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood's Bay and back.†   (source)
  • "I try to think of the nice times—when we went to Mablethorpe, and Robin Hood's Bay, and Shanklin," she said.†   (source)
  • As he comes from Nottingham, a favorite haunt of Robin Hood, though now, we are informed by Lord Doak, a live modern city of 275,573 inhabitants, and important lace as well as other industries, we like to think that perhaps through his veins runs some of the blood, both virile red and bonny blue, of that earlier lord o' the good greenwood, the roguish Robin.†   (source)
  • She sat entranced through 'Robin Hood' and hung upon the lips of the contralto who sang, 'Oh, Promise Me!'†   (source)
  • From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory of the Carthusians and past Robin Hood's Well, down to Spinney Park, then on to Minton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farmlands of the valleyside to Bunker's Hill, branching off there, and running north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Derbyshire: six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked by a loop of fine chain, the…†   (source)
  • We had a capital 'severe tea' at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand.†   (source)
  • Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in the neighborhood of Whitby.†   (source)
  • Then Tom became Robin Hood again, and was allowed by the treacherous nun to bleed his strength away through his neglected wound.†   (source)
  • So they played Robin Hood all the afternoon, now and then casting a yearning eye down upon the haunted house and passing a remark about the morrow's prospects and possibilities there.†   (source)
  • "Well, say, Joe, you can be Friar Tuck or Much the miller's son, and lam me with a quarter-staff; or I'll be the Sheriff of Nottingham and you be Robin Hood a little while and kill me."†   (source)
  • And at last Joe, representing a whole tribe of weeping outlaws, dragged him sadly forth, gave his bow into his feeble hands, and Tom said, "Where this arrow falls, there bury poor Robin Hood under the greenwood tree."†   (source)
  • Do you know Robin Hood, Huck?†   (source)
  • Who's Robin Hood?"†   (source)
  • It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food.†   (source)
  • She would willingly have given it to him, for she was not at all attached to her thimble; but the idea that she was among thieves prevented her from feeling any comfort in the revival of deference and attention toward her; all thieves, except Robin Hood, were wicked people.†   (source)
  • Vedas,[586] Aesop's Fables,[587] Pilpay,[588] Arabian Nights,[589] Cid,[590] Iliad,[591] Robin Hood,[592] Scottish Minstrelsy,[593] are not the work of single men.†   (source)
  • The reader has here the original legend from which the incident in the romance is derived; and the identifying the irregular Eremite with the Friar Tuck of Robin Hood's story, was an obvious expedient.†   (source)
  • "Must I so soon risk the pardon and favour of my Sovereign?" said Robin Hood, pausing for all instant; "but by Saint Christopher, it shall be so.†   (source)
  • …society, were never learned there, but were original and commanding, and held out protection and prosperity; one who did not need the aid of a court-suit, but carried the holiday in his eye; who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence; who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;[440] yet with the port of an emperor,—if need be, calm, serious, and fit to stand the gaze of millions.†   (source)
  • As for the rest of Robin Hood's career, as well as the tale of his treacherous death, they are to be found in those black-letter garlands, once sold at the low and easy rate of one halfpenny.†   (source)
  • Call me no longer Locksley, my Liege, but know me under the name, which, I fear, fame hath blown too widely not to have reached even your royal ears—I am Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest.†   (source)
  • "Nay, most gracious sovereign," answered the Hermit, (well known to the curious in penny-histories of Robin Hood, by the name of Friar Tuck,) "it is not the crosier I fear, but the sceptre.†   (source)
  • He once more extended his hand to Robin Hood, assured him of his full pardon and future favour, as well as his firm resolution to restrain the tyrannical exercise of the forest rights and other oppressive laws, by which so many English yeomen were driven into a state of rebellion.†   (source)
  • "It is well and wisely spoken, brave Robin Hood," said Wilfred, apart; "and know, moreover, that they who jest with Majesty even in its gayest mood are but toying with the lion's whelp, which, on slight provocation, uses both fangs and claws."†   (source)
  • The Outlaw accordingly led the way, followed by the buxom Monarch, more happy, probably, in this chance meeting with Robin Hood and his foresters, than he would have been in again assuming his royal state, and presiding over a splendid circle of peers and nobles.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, Robin Hood had sent off several of his followers in different directions, as if to reconnoitre the enemy; and when he saw the company effectually broken up, he approached Richard, who was now completely armed, and, kneeling down on one knee, craved pardon of his Sovereign.†   (source)
  • The natural and rough sense of Robin Hood led him to be desirous that the scene should be closed ere any thing should occur to disturb its harmony, the more especially that he observed Ivanhoe's brow clouded with anxiety.†   (source)
  • "If your Grace, then," said Robin, "will again honour with your presence one of Robin Hood's places of rendezvous, the venison shall not be lacking; and a stoup of ale, and it may be a cup of reasonably good wine, to relish it withal."†   (source)
  • The young knight sighed, therefore, and held his peace; while Richard, rejoiced at having silenced his counsellor, though his heart acknowledged the justice of the charge he had brought against him, went on in conversation with Robin Hood.†   (source)
  • The name of Robin Hood, if duly conjured with, should raise a spirit as soon as that of Rob Roy; and the patriots of England deserve no less their renown in our modern circles, than the Bruces and Wallaces of Caledonia.†   (source)
  • Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had little doubt they would find the ways secure, or, if otherwise, would receive such timely notice of the danger as would enable them to fall back on a strong troop of archers, with which he himself proposed to follow on the same route.†   (source)
  • By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!†   (source)
  • They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.†   (source)
  • And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.†   (source)
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