What is "roper"

Usage examples of "roper".

In the entrance, Miss Campanula had posted Sergeant Roper, of the Chipping Constabularly, and sidesman of St.

Murphy, Elmo Roper, Beardsley Ruml, Hans Christian Sonne, Lauren Soth, Wayne Chatfield Taylor, John Hay Whitney.

Gertie Roper, chargehand and faithful servant before the Second World War, all through the war and now post-war I was getting on a bit, butjumped about like a two year ld at the prospect of the factory turning out nylon stockings.

Longarm saw that he was throwing an underhanded catch loop called the mangana that had been adopted from the Mexican vaqueros and was so difficult to throw correctly that it marked an expert roper.

Florence for word on a sidesaddle being traded in recently for a center-fire roper.

Tying the two bridles to the saddlehorn, Longarm hefted the heavy roper to one hip and morosely regarded the dead ponies by the light of a silver moon.

When they had gotten their little room all hooked up with the prototypes and some video stuff, Shane Schram, the burly, rumpled, prematurely bald, tough-guy psychologist, materialized from some other part of the country and sent a couple of ropers down into the mall.

The wits used to say that Ropers,-- the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet.

Janusz and Victoria Roper, the former Langstretch op, both of whom had led the fight against the Camarilla, had been captured.

In a 1992 Roper opinion poll of nearly 6,000 American adults -especially commissioned by those who accept the alien abduction story at face value - 18 per cent reported sometimes waking up paralysed, aware of one or more strange beings in the room.

At a quarter to nine, when the last arrival had been ushered in, Bernard Daumery and Ward Roper had nothing on their tables but their napkins, Cynthia had Scotch and water, Demarest a Tom Collins, and Polly Zarella a glass and a botde of Tokaji Essencia.

Wolfe, of course, and men named Demarest and Roper, and women named Zarella and Nieder—that's all.

Unbidden the thought intruded of asking Roper for help, and she flinched from the idea as if it had stung her.

Later that year, while serving aboard the destroyer Roper, Heinlein contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was hospitalized.

The frigate will be the Amalie, Captain Herbert Roper, and the sloops the Betty, master and commander Jason King, and the Rose, master and commander William Payne.