Rodneys

Rodneys successes, which have made the English very saucy for the Moment, but this will not last long.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 March 1780 1973

In our talk about policy and strategy we were Bismarcks and Rodneys, wielding nations and navies; and, indeed, I have no doubt that our fancy took extravagant flights sometimes.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

He might marry a woman older than himself and swallow the grimace of it, but by no conceivable system of argument could he persuade himself to marry into a family like that of the Rodneys — the girl herself, for all her beauty and rare womanliness, a quarter Indian, her father the synonyme for obloquy, her brother a cattle thief.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

One or two of the male Rodneys offered to help, but she waved them aside and lashed the luggage to the buckboard, handling the ropes with the skill of an old sailor.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

Rodneys of the past, as it has produced the Hornbys and Kanes and

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

A roll-towel, more frankly significant of the multitude of the Rodneys than had been the babel of voices, a discouraged fragment of comb, a tin basin, a slippery atom of soap, these Eudora proffered with an unction worthy of better things.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

I'll help 'em to get away from here, and I'll bulldose these Rodneys into holding their peace forever after.

The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897

No doubt our enemies will have a spy or two hanging about to see that I am actually off for a jaunt with the Rodneys, but they will be Viennese and they won't know me from Adam.

The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897

He began by laughing his friend to scorn; then, as Medcroft persisted, went so far as to take him severely to task for the proposed imposition on the unsuspecting Rodneys, to say nothing of the trick he would play upon the convention of architects.

The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Brock was presented to the Rodneys just before the party went in to dinner.

The Husbands of Edith George Barr McCutcheon 1897