How To Use Turpin In A Sentence
- As a pamphlet account of his execution published shortly after his death put it, Turpin ‘went off this stage with as much intrepidity and unconcern, as if he had been taking horse to go on a journey’.
- The real Turpin it seems was just as different, an unattractive, unchivalrous and brutal thief who raped and murdered.
- Commandments broken in a general smash; such rogueries and knaveries as no storyteller could invent; such murders and robberies as Thurtell or Turpin scarce ever perpetrated; — were by my informant accurately remembered, and freely related, respecting his nearest kindred, to any one who chose to hear him. The Virginians
- 'Arabice loquutum esse Aigolando Saracenorum regulo, Turpinus (the famous Archbishop) auctor est; nec id fide indignum. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
- Thus trimerous fuchsias and tetramerous jasmines may frequently be met with, and Turpin describes a tetramerous flower of _Cobæa scandens_. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- The two charges of conspiracy and obtaining pecuniary advantage against Turpin had been dropped.
- Turpin, "said the hag, drawing as near to the highwayman as Bess would permit her;" dead men walk and ride -- ay, _ride_! Rookwood
- Turpin's journey from east London butcher's boy to legendary highwayman chimes with the re-invention of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs as the jack-the-lad beach boy of Brazil.
- Dick Turpin is no coppers' nark so have the courage of your convictions to stand and deliver your reasons.
- Gothic chansons de geste, the rough and ponderous mass becomes, as if by passing for a moment into happier conditions, or through a more gracious stratum of air, graceful and refined, like the carved ferneries on the granite church at Folgoat, or the lines which describe the fair priestly hands of Archbishop Turpin, in the song of Roland; although below both alike there is a fund of mere Gothic strength, or heaviness. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
