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  • Nick Bollettieri's view: Van Roost is in tip-top shape and is arrogant on the court.

    2000 U.S. Open — Women's seeds 2000

  • So we went and played a game on the Roost, which is currently playing some of the new bonus pack maps.

    kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2001

  • It is a long, rough road from here to old Scythia's Roost, which is right on our way to Rockhold.

    For Woman's Love Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • Wolfert was driven forth once more upon a wrangling world, by the tongue of a termagant wife; for it passed into a proverb through the neighborhood, and has been handed down by tradition, that the cock of the Roost was the most hen-pecked bird in the country.

    Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Washington Irving 1821

  • On the contrary, he of the Roost was a patriot of the first water, and, if we may take his own word for granted, a thorn in the side of the enemy.

    Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Washington Irving 1821

  • In Chinese, the plateau on which it stands is called, from a projecting rock, the "Rooster's Crest"; shortened into the more expressive name, the "Roost," it is suggestive of the repose of summer.

    The Awakening of China 1871

  • The spot he chose for his "Roost" was a little farm on the bank of the river at Tarrytown, close to his old Sleepy Hollow haunt, one of the loveliest, if not the most picturesque, situations on the Hudson.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The spot he chose for his "Roost" was a little farm on the bank of the river at Tarrytown, close to his old Sleepy Hollow haunt, one of the loveliest, if not the most picturesque, situations on the Hudson.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The spot he chose for his "Roost" was a little farm on the bank of the river at Tarrytown, close to his old Sleepy Hollow haunt, one of the loveliest, if not the most picturesque, situations on the

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Another showstopper was Katie Coble's line of convertible garments, called "Roost," which sent more models down the runway than any other designer in the show.

    Baltimore City Paper 2010

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