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Robin Hood
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  • She said that when she was twelve, her mother had taken her to a theater to see Errol Flynn in Robin Hood, and there she'd watched a newsreel showing the NCAA mile winner and his bandaged legs.†  (source)
  • I wish I could tell them, I'm your Robin Hood.†  (source)
  • My sister, little Miss The-Lord-Is-My-Shepherd, now thinks she is Robin Hood.†  (source)
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  • I never anticipated Alexander the Great, Robin Hood, or Billie Holiday.†  (source)
  • She certainly didn't believe that the prophet Elijah would come through the apartment door any more than she believed Darth Vader, or Robin Hood, or ...or the Easter Bunny, would.†  (source)
  • Robin Hood, repeat, Robin Hood.†  (source)
  • "My good man," I heard John Miller say, in a faux Robin Hood voice, "you have done your duty."†  (source)
  • In 1868 a Mrs. H. B. Lewis suggested a new one, Englewood, the name of a New Jersey town in which she previously had lived and which had taken its name from a forest in Carlisle, England, legendary for having sheltered two outlaws of Robin Hood stripe.†  (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 arteries exposed for all to see, but wearing underpants.†  (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)
  • I almost expect to see Robin Hood pop out from behind a tree.†  (source)
  • Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, No.†  (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)
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