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Robert

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Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923.
American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876).
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Noun1.Robert - United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
Henry M. Robert, Henry Martyn Robert
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Robert [ˈrɒbət] N → Roberto


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[55] THOSE who, in this bustling age, turn to fiction not merely for a little passing amusement, but for profit, for the higher sort of pleasure, will do well, we think (after a conscientious perusal on our own part) to bestow careful reading on Robert Elsmere.
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Ned started off very slowly with his sad load, and Robert came and looked at my foot again; then he took his handkerchief and bound it closely round, and so he led me home.
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