friar tuck

Example Sentences

• "the Austrian footpads insist on their share of the spoil, and go halves with the priestly taxgather the Friar Tuck of Italy."
• "The Lady Shidzuka was his mistress, and Benkei was a robber-priest who allied himself with Yoshitsuné's fortunes and figures as the Friar Tuck of Japan."
• "Stirred up, as was suspected, by the Dutch traders, the Narragansetts were already on the war-path, and Endicott had just captured their fort at Block Island. Captain Underhill, the "Friar Tuck" of the New England greenwood, had just feasted his twenty merry men in the Dutch fort of Good Hope; and his grotesque exploit-the fort was empty-had further exasperated the people of New Netherlands."
• "Francis Mahoney, or O'Mahoney, born in 1805, began life as a priest in Ireland, but having while still in early life abandoned, or been abandoned by, the heads of that sacred profession, first made himself known to the world in the very different atmosphere of those revels-which, in imitation of the "Noctes" of "Blackwood," were a kind of pretended necessity of every literary undertaking, -among the lively, somewhat riotous and somewhat profane crew of "Fraser," Mahoney called himself "Father Prout," the Friar Tuck of the jovial company, and his sketches had some success in their time, though not so much as his songs"
• "The following "Tragedy of the Till" is one of the legends, told by that most delightful of modern Friar Tucks, "The Hermit of Bellyfulle.""