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That was Rob Roy, who posed with Mrs. Coolidge for the portrait by Howard Chandler Christy.
Rob Roy remained boss of all the dogs.
Mama didn't know what to do -- whether to tell on Rob Roy or not -- since she had the ear of Mrs. Coolidge more than the other maids.
But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.
Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.
Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
They would all lie around on the rug during the meal, a very pretty sight as Rob Roy, Prudence, and Calamity Jane were all snow-white.
His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.
Aberfoyle Golf Club was built in 1860 and is located just south of town near the Rob Roy restaurant.
Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots.
The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.
Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
Movies filmed in or near Fort William include Being Human, Braveheart, Highlander, Restless Natives, Harry Potter and Rob Roy.
Scott treats similar themes to some of his earlier novels, like Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian, examining the conflict between heroic ideals and modern society.
The island is semi-fictionalised into " Lindisfarne Island " and the castle is " Rob Roy ".
* 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
The Rob Roy is a cocktail created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.
The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.
The Rob Roy is similar to a Manhattan but is made exclusively with Scotch whisky, while the Manhattan is traditionally made with rye and today commonly made with bourbon or Canadian whisky.
Like the Manhattan, the Rob Roy can be made sweet, dry, or perfect.
The standard Rob Roy is the sweet version, made with sweet vermouth, so there is no need to specify a sweet Rob Roy when ordering.

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He was cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner's fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman.
There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.
Cusack found that the greatest challenge adapting the novel was pulling off Rob Gordon's frequent breaking of the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience.
The novel was made into a film in 1984, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, and Beau Bridges.
Second, in 2006 Coogan starred with Rob Brydon in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a self-referential film of the " unfilmable " self-referential novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.
It features actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, which is a fictional account of the narrator's attempt at writing an autobiography.
A 1990 American film, directed by Rob Reiner, was adapted from the novel.
Dalby is considered an expert in the study of the Japanese geisha community and has acted as consultant to novelist Arthur Golden and film-maker Rob Marshall for the novel Memoirs of a Geisha and the film of the same name.
These include a novel, Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee and two Big Finish Productions audio plays, The Holy Terror and The Maltese Penguin, both written by Rob Shearman and featuring Robert Jezek as Frobisher.
A fictionalized version of Campbell at this time (" Rob McPhail ") appears in the novel Snooty Baronet by Wyndham Lewis ( 1932 ).
Rob Roy ( 1817 ) is an historical novel by Walter Scott.
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* Colony ( Rob Grant novel )
Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy gives an account of the kirk.
Rob Roy MacGregor | Rob Roy in the Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral ( more accurately, the Lower Church of Glasgow Cathedral ), by the Dalziel Brothers, after Sir Walter Scott's novel, Rob Roy.
Scott followed up with his 1817 historical novel Rob Roy romanticising the outlaw cattle thief Raibert Ruadh born by Loch Katrine and buried at nearby Balquhidder.
In 2005, film director Rob Marshall made a film version of the novel.
At the beginning of the novel, Ken has again angered his father by returning home from boarding school with failing grades, and will therefore have to repeat fifth grade, an expense Rob can ill afford.
Rob Thomas originally wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel for publishing company Simon & Schuster.
Scott returned to the first rising for his novel Rob Roy.
* Madhouse ( novel ), a novel by Rob Thurman

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