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shippons

n. (plural of shippon English)

Usage examples of "shippons".

Pender then went on to describe life aboard the ship for all of the hands, pleading with the admiral to intercede and put an end to this tyranny.

I could not approve of her, but I was disinclined to condemn, for that would have meant an end to our acquaintance and, despite everything, her company pleased me.

I even told him of my enchantment by Sarah Blundy and my determination to bring our contest to an end once and for all.

Dozens at least, and I had hoped that quieter times had put an end to them, but it was not apparently, the case.

But they were the means to an end, and that end was the means to a beginning.

The rain put an end to his hopes of another ride with Anna, even if he did have to take those blasted children along.

I was envisioning my own death, yet I now wonder if I foresaw an end that awaited .

After the dinner, which was a very elaborate one, was at an end, and the guests were discussing their tobacco-pipes, Martha Hilton glided into the room, and stood blushing in front of the chimney-place.

Do not forget that the trade is a legitimate form of commerce that only an Act of Parliament can put an end to.

Hanover Square soon became a hive of activity, with an end, less stream of visitors.

When their discussion came to an end I pulled back, let Vance Colby through without him seeing me, and after he was out and in his car I went inside to where Miles was hunched up behind his desk, his face looking like he had just been whipped.

Every impulse he possessed impelled him to take her into his arms, to kiss her, possess her--to put an end to her silly game.

He lay beside her and loved her but their spiralling need soon spelled an end to such play.

Lamartine, over Espronceda and Quintana, to give her hand a fervent squeeze, before time ran out, and there was Tia Ana out of breath in the doorway, her long shadow like old Father Time himself come to put an end to lessons from that day on.

Archbishop Merifio had recently issued another pastoral urging an end to schools without God, especially those that educated girls.