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stanhope
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Wiktionary
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n. A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stanhope \Stan"hope\ (st[a^]n"h[=o]p; colloq. st[a^]n"[u^]p), n. A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
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Population (2000): 3584 Housing Units (2000): 1419 Land area (2000): 1.872877 sq. miles (4.850729 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.335469 sq. miles (0.868860 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.208346 sq. miles (5.719589 sq. km) FIPS code: 70380 Located within: New ...
Usage examples of stanhope.
They would have to ask the Stanhope to keep the village and the apes for them, which would make it a major inconvenience if they chose to stay in a different hotel.
Stanhope, Sir Robert Walpole, the great Earl Camden, Outred the mathematician, Boyle the philosopher, Waller the poet, the illustrious Earl of Chatham, Lord Lyttelton, Gray the poet, and an endless list of shining characters have owned Eton for their scholastic nursery: not to mention the various existing literati who have received their education at this celebrated college.
Why should Lester Remsen or William Stanhope or anyone be any different?
Alex and Elizabeth had the habitual weaknesses and excesses of the Stanhope.
But its dominant characteristic, a characteristic that happens of generation in generation through interval of the men of the family, is that the Stanhope is donjuanes.
I had not much trouble in obtaining their consent, and we found ourselves in distinguished company, among the persons present being the Countess of Harrington, Lady Stanhope, and Emilie and her daughters.
He wanted to write his opera: he must somehow get money to live while doing so, and to pay the heavy costs involved: he would not give up Lantern because he was convinced that somewhere in London a malignant demon named Stanhope Aspinwall was consumed with the desire that he should do so.
But Stanhope Aspinwall, in two long articles which he wrote about the new opera, rebuked them sharply.
Mr Revelstoke had spoken then in his usual amusingly unrestrained fashion of a critique of his opera The Golden Asse, written by Stanhope Aspinwall of the Sunday Argus, which she had brought to him.
Among musical people there was a sudden vogue for Giles Revelstoke, much of it attributable to Stanhope Aspinwall, whose two commemorative articles, published on successive Sundays in the Argus, set off the enthusiasm of lesser men.
And she told him about Bun Eccles, about Stanhope Aspinwall, about Mrs Hopkin-Griffiths.
Lloyd Stanhope popped up by512 Diana Gabaldonmy elbow, looking like a very animated boiled egg in his nightshirt, his polled head startlingly round and pale without his wig.
Stanhope was conveyed to her home, and a doctor was brought from Cedarville and the Lanings were informed of what had happened.
He didn't feel comfortable with people like Stanhope, bureaucrats and exercisers of power.
But a copper badge at the Parthenon Saloon did tell him Sunny Jim Stanhope had been buried out by the clay pits, neatly wrapped in mattress ticking, at no cost to the taxpayers and damned little to Maxwell's law firm.