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Dicky Browne, who rides like a bird, is going at a rattling pace straight over anything and everything that comes in his way, with the most delightful impartiality, believing, as he has never yet come a very violent cropper, that the gods are on his side. Roger and Dulce got a little way from the others, and are now riding side by side across a rather hilly field.
I had a nice quiet horse, who allowed me to thoroughly test my invention by falling off his back in every conceivable direction, my husband being present to prevent my voluntary fall from degenerating into a "cropper." Mr.
"Ten years, ten long, glorious, splendid years." "Ten years! Surely not ten!" "Yes, ten beautiful years." "I wish to God I had come with you then. I might have been well, I should have been saved some bumps and a ghastly cropper at last." "'Cut it out, Jack, as the boys say here. En avant! We never look back in this land, but ever forward. Oh, now isn't this worth while?"
She began to wonder very much what was the matter with Rupert, and guessed that he had "come an awful cropper" of some kind. It must certainly be an exceptional cropper to cloud his spirit. Perhaps he had lost a really large sum of money, or perhaps he The thought of a woman came suddenly to her, she did not know why. Suspicion, jealousy woke in her.
All day long he parried and laughed down fatuous comment on his supposed cropper into the canal, for the cob had returned to his manger and founded a theory that his master let gossip accept as true.
Don't you see what a cropper we would have come if she hadn't settled down as she has?" And he had concluded by turning to Maggie as for something she mightn't really have thought of. "You, darling, in that case, I verily believe, would have been the one to hate it most." "To hate it ?" Maggie had wondered. "To hate our having, with our tremendous intentions, not brought it off.
"W'y messmates," he said, "I hadn't even time to guess wot 'ad 'appened. Got no warnin' wotsomedever. I just felt a tree-mendous shock all of a suddent that struck me motionless as if Tom Sayers had hit me a double-handed cropper on the top o' my beak an' in the pit o' my bread-basket at one an' the same moment.
A home was built for them, beyond the branch, beside the spring. And Alvin York was their third son. IV The Molding of a Man The first year after the marriage of William York and Mary Brooks, they lived at the Old Coonrod Pile home, and William York worked as a "cropper."
One of my officers rode him off the ball in a fierce drive for goal, and by some devilish mistake the post hadn't been sawed half-through, so when Barlow crashed into it it stood up. As he lay perfectly still after his cropper it looked as though Resident Hodson had lost his jackal. But Barlow is one of those whip-cord Englishmen that die of old age; he was in the saddle again in two days.
Charley to enjoy her own in future. As for the school, we will hope that matters will improve." "You'll leave the proof with me, won't you?" said Mr. Cropper eagerly. "Oh, certainly," said Esther, smiling. "I have the negative still, you know." From that time out the Cropper boys were models of good behaviour and the other turbulent spirits, having lost their leaders, were soon quelled.
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