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  • Part of their group started a classic rock-rooted thing in the style of The Band.

    Mike Ragogna: Eureka: A Conversation With Rooney's Robert Schwartzman and Ned Brower 2010

  • Part of their group started a classic rock-rooted thing in the style of The Band.

    Mike Ragogna: Eureka : A Conversation With Rooney's Robert Schwartzman and Ned Brower 2010

  • The classic rock-rooted Kings of Leon had its creative moments, but the art-and-prog rock influenced Decemberists from Portland were far more interesting and just as tuneful.

    Buzzine » Coachella 2007 Is HOT 2007

  • Abbot Mattias was a true creature of the desert, as hard, prickly, and unyielding as any bit of rock-rooted scrub we had avoided in the past weeks.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Abbot Mattias was a true creature of the desert, as hard, prickly, and unyielding as any bit of rock-rooted scrub we had avoided in the past weeks.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • In the tenth chapter the Holy Spirit's action with Cornelius completely upsets the life-long, rock-rooted ideas of these intensely national, and intensely exclusive Jews.

    Quiet Talks on Power S.D. Gordon

  • It will simply serve to make him more rock-rooted and firm in his purpose to pluck victory from defeat.

    Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904

  • "If any man would come after Me" means a rock-rooted purpose; the jaw locked; the tendrils of the purpose going down around and under the gray granite of a man's will, and tying themselves there; and knotting the ties; sailor knots, that you cannot undo.

    Quiet Talks on Prayer 1897

  • Mrs. Joyce was quiet, demure, rock-rooted in her self-respecting gravity -- a sweet, sympathetic, winning little woman.

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • The fact is, Minnesota is so rock-rooted in all the elements of material greatness that it must advance, regardless of all known obstructions.

    The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier 1865

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