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  • I have used up all available excuses, flat tire, car trouble, LASMAN self have been ropped into my late to work excuses.

    RESUMPTION PALAVA: 2008

  • They'd ropped off at last; but Jill had the nightmare, and Molly was waked up by a violent jerking of her braid as Jill tried to tow her along, dreaming she was a boat.

    Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

  • So I tackled up the old horse, and packed in a load of ax-handles and a few notions; and mother fried me some doughnuts and put 'em into a box, along with some cheese and sausages and ropped me up another shirt, for I told her I didn't know how long I should be gone.

    Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900

  • So I tackled up the old horse, and packed in a load of axe-handles, and a few notions; and mother fried me some doughnuts, and put 'em into a box, along with some cheese, and sausages, and ropped me up another shirt, for I told her I didn't know how long I should be gone.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887

  • "'I dunno, massa,' he answered, 'but I'z gwine to sleep in de sunshine, ropped up in pancakes, en yaller-gal angels, dey'll pore lasses ober me.'"

    Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881

  • Miss C'lotta tuk some shawls and ropped mistis up, and tole me to help tote her out, for de fire was all over de house.

    Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

  • Serge Halimi on the deficit bogy, weapon of the rich. ropped into the local cellular phone store the other day to check out the newest line of cell phones.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • The Dow fell nearly 338 points while the S&P ropped 38 and the Nasdaq composite lost nearly 80 points.

    unknown title 2008

  • Hoodathunk (sponsored by Scroomall Health Corp) says: dr, since your compatriot has decided to flee to the hinterlands, can you explain why the market ropped after the election of your nekkid senator and didn’t spring back until after the double spanking of Republicans?

    Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment 2010

  • So I tackled up the old horse, and packed in a load of ax-handles and a few notions, and mother fried me some doughnuts and put 'em into a box along with some cheese and sassages, and ropped me up another shirt, for I told her I didn't know how long I should be gone; and after I got all rigged out I went round and bid all the neighbors good bye, and jumped in and drove off for

    My thirty years out of the Senate 1859

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