Friar Tuck

Immediately removing my curious fingers from the tool that must have weighed more than my entire body, Friar Tuck bellowed like a bullhorn.

Untitled NaNo Project Ingrid K. V. Hardy 2011

Little John and Friar Tuck are instantly recognisable, and the famous quarterstaffs-on-the-bridge incident appears, though not quite in its usual guise.

Archive 2009-12-01 Carla 2009

If anything the story is undersold slightly: you may remember the case of Friar Tuck, the Staten Island minister who embezzled money from his congregation to get cosmetic surgery.

Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009

Little John and Friar Tuck are instantly recognisable, and the famous quarterstaffs-on-the-bridge incident appears, though not quite in its usual guise.

Outlaw, by Angus Donald. Book review Carla 2009

Since when does Friar Tuck have a rat terrier and Robin Hood look like he lives in the sewers of NYC?

GOOD SIR CAGE, REPORTING FOR DUTY 2008

Speaking of Friar Tuck, that was the example my mom gave me when I asked her what “spoonerism” meant, back in the day…I figured out her tactical error before she did.

George Genius #1 2007

But if the cuff was fairly given, I will be judged by the good men around, if it was not as well repaid — or, if thou thinkest I still owe thee aught, and will stand forth for another counterbuff — “By no means,” replied Friar Tuck, “I had mine own returned, and with usury — may your Majesty ever pay your debts as fully!”

Ivanhoe 2004

An excellent archer, he lived in Sherwood Forest with the fair Maid Marian, the stalwart Little John, the priest Friar Tuck, the musician Allan-a-Dale, and others who helped him rob rich landlords and thwart his chief enemy, the sheriff of Nottingham.

Robin Hood 2002

Forests still existed thereabouts in the time of Robin Hood, and were well known to him and his band of "merrie men," while his jovial chaplain, Friar Tuck, had his hermitage amongst their deep recesses.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

This jovial priest was named Friar Tuck and took upon himself the task of looking after the spiritual welfare of Robin's band -- which he accomplished more by a free use of his cudgel on the heads of the offenders than by prayer or divine exhortation.

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards