Cropt

Word CROPT
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I pray it --- not be true, but his long illness, gives (rip) to it that I fear to enquire, lest it be confinmed deyond doubt - what a loss, such talents so early cropt would be to his country, to his family, his private worth was above all estimations - yet and it is the general doom - all must be to submit - ❋ Jewish Women's Archive (2010)

And I'm so afraid of behaving like a blind old goose, that I often snub Hal, when he's no more to blame than I am myself, for fear of his getting out of my hands, and behaving like a certain young man he has been brought up with, and who, I assure you, deserves to have his ears cropt ten times a day, for one piece of impudence or other. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the preceding advertisements, the reader will perceive a number of cases, in which the runaway is described as '_cropt_,' or a '_notch cut_ in the ear, or a part or the whole of the ear _cut off_,' &c. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

The officers drew their swords and drove the close-cropt apprentices, or "roundheads" as they were jeeringly called, out of Westminster, chasing them up King ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But happy would all these hair-brain'd houswives be, if they had such Tutors to their husbands, as Aurelius was; 'tis most certain, that then that corrupt seed, would be cropt in the very bud and not be suffered to come to perfection. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)

And they seemed extremely wamble-cropt and chop-fallen; their feathers shone not, even their sickle-feathers drooped in the dust, and their combs were white. ❋ Various (N/A)

On the occasion of a first offence, culprits of either sex were subjected to the ignominy of having their hair cropt for future identification, and then conducted with rough music through the public thoroughfares, the men to the pillory and the women to the "thewe." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It was, perhaps, thirty seconds from the time when he first caught sight of it that the aeroplane came perpendicularly above his head, the whirring ceased, and the machine descended with graceful swoop upon the well-cropt turf within fifty yards of the spot where the two golfers stood. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

The Turnings and Windings, edged on both sides with green cropt hedges, are not at all tedious, by reason that at every hand there are figures and water-works representing the mysterious and instructive fables of Aesop, with an explanation of what Fable each Fountain representeth carved on each in black marble. ❋ Francis Loring Payne (N/A)

He carries his eares upright, nor seldome ever lets them fall till they be cropt off, and after that, as in despight, will never weare them more. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

In September (1674) the old question again cropt up as to the power of the ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. ❋ Unknown (1919)

I used to think him very picturesque on the fringe of a crowd holding a tall staff, with his erect form, and his superb, bare, thickhair’d, closely-cropt white head. ❋ Unknown (1892)

'My earlier predecessors had the whole field of life before them, untrodden and unsurveyed; characters of every kind shot up in their way, and those of the most luxuriant growth, or most conspicuous colours, were naturally cropt by the first sickle. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

My sixth brother, he of the cropt lips, O Commander of the ❋ Anonymous (1879)

My fifth brother, he of the cropt ears, O Commander of the ❋ Anonymous (1879)

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