What is "ripon"

Usage examples of "ripon".

A warm and acrimonious debate was maintained by the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Wellington, and other opposition peers on the one hand, and Lord Melbourne and the lord chancellor on the other.

After a very long and angry discussion, the debate was adjourned, and on the next evening was continued by Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Monteagle on one side, and the Earls of Haddington and Ripon on the other.

On the 22nd of February the Earl of Ripon announced to the house of lords that the ecclesiastical commissioners had resolved to recommend the continuance of the bishopric of Sodor and Man as a separate see, and not to unite it with the diocese of Carlisle, as had been proposed.

He repaired the minster at York, which had fallen almost into ruins, and built large churches at Hexham and Ripon.

Sunday night, Harrogate was deserted and virtually free of traffic, and within minutes Emily was on the main Ripon road, speeding steadily along toward Pennistone Royal.

Ainsley was beginning to realize how dangerous the conditions were after he left the main Ripon road and maneuvered his Aston-Martin down a narrow side lane, taking a shortcut to the village of Pennistone Royal.

For instance, he warned them to stay away from the property of the more touchy citizens who might be expected to defend their possessions and even come into the mountains after thieves, people like Aaron Court and Benny Ripon, a part-time gunfighter and part-time jeweler, and people who might take revenge in other ways, people like Al Bleiberg, the butcher, who might refuse to sell their stolen cattle, or Sheriff Maxie, who might alter his laissez-faire attitude toward Packard activities, or Lilith Moran, who might bar them from the delights of gambling, drinking, and whoring at the Fallen Angel.

Ripon, Wisconsin, in February 1854, a diverse coalition of antislavery politicians, former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties along with disaffected northern Democrats, organized a new party opposed to the further extension of slavery.

And Ripon could not but think it hard that he, Geoffrey Ripon, by all right and law Earl of Brompton, Viscount Mapledurham in the peerage of Ireland, etc.

Geoffrey Ripon, Earl of Brompton, it is to him that this estate used to belong, then?

At Ripon in the eighteenth century the chandlers sent their customers large candles on Christmas Eve, and the coopers, logs of wood.

She grudged the money for the costume-hire, but when Ripon called for her, not very happily dis­guised as a toreador, she was ready in an outfit which included a large panniered skirt and a tricorne hat, which the costumier called a Venetian Domino.

But Amy was an American and a woman, and might understand better than Ripon, who was a man, or Domdaniel, who was English.

Even Ripon, who was not more than a year or so older than herself, could marshal all the facts and make a judgement about them, but not even Domdaniel could grasp the irrationalities of the situation.

But Ripon persuaded a bookseller and stationer to let him rummage among some old stock, and produced a wonderful variety of paper transfers, Victorian post-cards, and works of edification which had once been sold as Sabbath School prizes.