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Turpin   /tˈərpɪn/   Listen
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Turpin  n.  (Zool.) A land tortoise. (Obs.)






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"Turpin" Quotes from Famous Books



... the court of Charles VI. If a Greek believed in the exploits of Rowland and Oliver, he may surely be excused, since the monks of St. Denys, the national historians, have inserted the fables of Archbishop Turpin in their ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... J. W. Crumpacker of Kansas appeared in Omaha to organize the opposition forces. The anti-suffragists, led by Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, announced a meeting at Turpin's Hall on the afternoon of February 23. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, and Miss Minnie Bronson, secretary, both of New York, addressed the meeting. ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... horse. With him were Oliver his comrade, and Otho and Berenger, and Gerard of Roussillon, an aged warrior, and others, men of renown. And Turpin the Archbishop cried, "By my head, I will go also." So they chose twenty thousand warriors with ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... think that many children would be better and not worse for reading, provided it can be done in tender years, stories like those of Captain Kidd, Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin, and other gory tales, and perhaps later tales like Eugene Aram, and the ophidian medicated novel, Elsie Venner, etc., on the principle of the Aristotelian catharsis to arouse betimes the higher faculties which develop later, and whose ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... spectacularized haunts of the Bois. The piano in Le Caveau may be diabetic, senescent, and its operator half blind and all knuckles (as he is), but the music it gives forth is full of the romance of Sheppard and Turpin, of stage coach days and dark and nervous highways, of life when life was in the world and all the ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright


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