How To Use Turpin In A Sentence
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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’.
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The real Turpin it seems was just as different, an unattractive, unchivalrous and brutal thief who raped and murdered.
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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
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'Arabice loquutum esse Aigolando Saracenorum regulo, Turpinus (the famous Archbishop) auctor est; nec id fide indignum.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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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
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The two charges of conspiracy and obtaining pecuniary advantage against Turpin had been dropped.
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Turpin, "said the hag, drawing as near to the highwayman as Bess would permit her;" dead men walk and ride -- ay, _ride_!
Rookwood
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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.
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Dick Turpin is no coppers' nark so have the courage of your convictions to stand and deliver your reasons.
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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
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And then there was the Bollin, with its shelvy banks, which Turpin cleared at a bound; the broad meadows over which he winged his flight; the pleasant bowling-green of the pleasant old inn at Hough, where he produced his watch to the Cheshire squires, with whom he was upon terms of intimacy; all brought something of the gallant robber to mind.
Rookwood
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I gazed dreamily at Hounslow, despite fresh tales of Dick Turpin; and all the successive "jogs" by which Nurse called my incapable attention to the lamplighters, the shops, the bottles in the chemists 'windows, and Hyde Park, failed to rouse me to any intelligent appreciation of the great city, now that I had reached it.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
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You half expect to see Harold Lloyd or Ben Turpin run across the frame chasing their wind blown hat.
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During this overture the patrico and the upright man had ascended the rostrum, each taking his place; the former on the right hand of Turpin, the latter upon his left.
Rookwood
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Who is this?" exclaimed the Major, flinging himself from his horse, and seizing the patrico; "this is not Turpin.
Rookwood
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He sets out to expose the stories told about Turpin since his death as factually incorrect.
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Turpin's dandy appearance bewildered campaigners and Downing Street police officers, who eventually banished him from the houses of power - but his message struck a chord.
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Zoroaster leaped from the table, and his example was followed by Turpin, and more leisurely by the patrico.
Rookwood
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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
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He commanded that the hearts of Roland, Olivier, and Turpin be taken from their bodies, wrapped, and inurned, and the bodies borne home in chariots.
National Epics
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The reticent Darren Turpin recapped his reading experience of 2008 on his blog The Genre Files.
The ULTIMATE (and somewhat bloated) Best Of 2008 List [part 1]
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Turpin Real Estate Ms. Higgins said the additions that were tacked on over the years by previous owners made the house 'a little higgledy-piggledy.'
N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots
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Now, having been informed by the Diary of the forthcoming Turpin tricentenary, he is busy planning another bash.
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_Oxonite_, consisting of picric and nitric acids; and _Panclastite_, a name given to various mixtures, proposed by M. Turpin, such as liquid nitric peroxide, with bisulphide of carbon, benzol, petroleum, ether, or mineral oils.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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Song of Roland was written after this speech, for before this Turpin's militant theology would likely have been considered heretical.
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The Archbishop Turpin, disturbed by this macabre turn of events, decided to examine the corpse.
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Ambivalent about the generational identity problem slot he's been in, Turpin talks about the future with disarming frankness.
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JL URPIN, Archbishop of Rhehns, the friend and Secretary of Charles the Great, excellently skilled * ip sacred and profane literature, of a genius equally adapted to prose and verse; the advocate of the poor, beloved of God in his life and conversation, who often hand to hand fought the Saracens by the Emperor's side: he relates the acts of Charles the Great in one book of Epistles, and flourished, under Charles and his Son Lewis, to the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty. tubpin's bistort or JOHN TURPIN'S HISTORY OP Charles the Great and Orlando.
History of Charles the Great and Orlando,
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At length, after various twistings and turnings in that deep and devious lane; after scaring one or two farmers, and riding over a brood or two of ducks; dipping into the verdant valley of West End, and ascending another hill, Turpin burst upon the gorsy, sandy, and beautiful heath of
Rookwood
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The bounders promise to unmask my alter-ego, that most dandy of highwaymen, Dick Turpin, in a new show in York next week.
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The bounders promise to unmask my alter-ego, that most dandy of highwaymen, Dick Turpin, in a new show in York next week.
