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  • "Don 'lemme int'rup' the conv'sation with yer lady-friend," he said winningly.

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Don't you int'rup 'older folks, as is talking to you for your good.

    The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor George Manville Fenn 1870

  • He showed me how I was stuck, like a broken record going rup, rup, rup in the groove, and how the survival skills I'd learned didn't work.

    Paul Loeb: 'Soul Of A Citizen': How A 17-Year San Quentin Inmate Helps To Heal His Community 2010

  • The Maire kneeled to kiss the stir rup of the Duke, and at the moment when Charles descended from his horse, every bell in the city commenced so thundering a peal, that they might almost have awakened the dead who slept in the vicinity of the steeples, which rocked with their clangor.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • So install what you can find, restart Firefox, and then rup Update from the Extension window.

    I FOUND YOU – ONLINE SPELL CHECKER! « Lorelle on WordPress 2006

  • New code Language name Previously coded rup Aromanian roa syc Syriac n/a

    Additions to MARC Code List for Languages David Bigwood 2007

  • You see, Ann thinks Senator McCarthy, the guy who launched anti-communist witch hunts against so many innocent Americans based on no evidence whatsoever, well that Senator McCarthy got a bum rup in history, according to Ann.

    03/05/2006 2006

  • One ounce of eggs or grains produces, four rup, or one hundred Nice pounds of cocons; and one rup, or twenty-five pounds of cocons, if they are rich, gives three pounds of raw silk; that is, twelve pounds of silk are got from one ounce of grains, which ounce of grains its produced by as many worms as are inclosed in one pound, or twelve ounces of cocons.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • It cannot be supposed, that a stranger and sojourner should buy his own grapes, and make his own provision of wine: but he may buy it by recommendation from the peasants, for about eighteen or twenty livres the charge, consisting of eleven rup five pounds; in other words, of two hundred and eighty pounds of this country, so as to bring it for something less than three-pence a quart.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • One small boat sometimes takes in one night twenty-five rup, amounting to six hundred weight; but it must be observed, that the pound here, as well as in other parts of Italy, consists but of twelve ounces.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

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