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Example sentences for "roebuck"

Lexicographically close words:
rodent; rodents; rodeo; rodomontade; rods; roebucks; roedeer; roemischen; roentgens; roer
  1. He was to spring up the stairs lightly as a roebuck of the mountains to welcome her, and now where was he?

  2. The Young Roebuck was now left to his own devices, and celebrated the change by putting on the summer suit of ruddy brown, that shone when he ventured into the light.

  3. Then he went South, to return in January when the snow was on the ground, when the Highland world seemed given over to storms, and the roebuck had lost their horns.

  4. The Roebuck came jauntily into the wood and offered no excuse or explanation for his two months' absence.

  5. Reassured, the doe and her fawns accompanied the roebuck to the high hills, choosing night-time for the journey, with the fear of mankind before them.

  6. We must go up into the hills," said the Roebuck decisively; "it is our only chance of escape from this trouble.

  7. They courted and played, and were happy as though the month were April instead of August, and when one fine morning another roebuck wished to intrude, there was a terrible battle.

  8. The parents did not seem to notice their loss as they would have done in the earlier year, but the little roebuck had seen the tragedy as he lay crouched in the adjacent heather, pressed as closely to the ground as the hare in her form.

  9. To such a young roebuck the points were not an unmixed blessing.

  10. The little roebuck knew the victim for a royal stag, one of the monarchs of the forest, whose antlers were the admiration of every hind in the district.

  11. They moved and fed together right into the spring; does and fawns keeping well within the precincts of the wood, while the roebuck ventured afield.

  12. The tops of young trees, ivy and rowan berries served the doe and fawn, but the Roebuck was not averse from a raid on the turnip fields below the plantation, and enjoyed many a meal of corn until the last stooks were carried.

  13. Though he had his fair share of vanity, this mischance did not trouble him greatly, for when he went abroad after he had grown up, there were few roebuck better off than he.

  14. John Russell made one of his very best speeches the other night, in reply to Roebuck who urged him to resign.

  15. Roebuck gave notice of a question, and John Russell told him he would give him an answer this evening.

  16. Footnote 122: [Mr. Roebuck moved a resolution applauding the principles which have hitherto regulated the foreign policy of the Government, to countervail the recent vote of the Lords.

  17. He hardly ever looked at the Sears Roebuck catalogues any more, and after Mr. Decameron came to visit us and suggested that Andrew write a book of country poems, the man became simply unbearable.

  18. Ere she had ceased, the monarch fell, A victim to the lady’s spell, And to the deadly snare she set Sprang, like a roebuck to the net.

  19. The roebuck sheds its antlers in December, and the new ones are fully developed by about the end of February.

  20. There is only one part of England where the roebuck is found wild, and that is Blackmoor Vale, in Dorsetshire.

  21. It is not a large nor a bustling suburb, this recent fringe upon Winchester’s ancient kirtle, and you are soon out of it and breasting the slope of Roebuck Hill.

  22. Islam lay with his gun in the bow ready to shoot, but the roebuck swam splendidly and, with a spring, was up on the bank and vanished like the wind.

  23. A roebuck swam across the stream a little in front of the boat.

  24. Kill a fine roebuck and bring us back his horns.

  25. Chariot and horsemen arrived at the Roebuck Arms, at the centre of the small town of Ashead, on the line from Steignton through Rowsley.

  26. Never did any departure from the Roebuck leave so wide-mouthed a body of spectators.

  27. Nemesis sailed into Roebuck Bay, and the skipper calmly announced that I would require to go ashore and await the next steamer, as he was going no farther.

  28. During the monsoon season the pearling fleet shelters in Roebuck Bay, on the shores of which Broome stands, and then that wicked and evil-smelling township wakens up from its sleep.

  29. Houser (retired Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roebuck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.