Dopping

Dopping a 50,000 bomb on a military position is not morally equivalent with flying a hijacked airliner into an office building or setting off a car bomb in an open-air market in Baghdad.

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I was hunting to dine with Mr. Harley to-day, but could not find him; and so I dined with honest Dr. Cockburn, and came home at six, and was taken out to next door by Dopping and Ford, to drink bad claret and oranges; and we let Raymond come to us, who talks of leaving the town to-morrow, but I believe will stay a day or two longer.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Dopping went, and I suppose he told the other two that the guns were there all right Dad asked me where

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

O'Connell stiffened his back, and saluted Dopping.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

My dad looked as if he'd been shot when he saw me, and old Dopping bristled all over like an Irish terrier at the beginning of a fight, and asked me who the devil I was and what I was doing there.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

But Dopping was not to be beat He's a bristly old bear at times, but he always was a gentleman.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

Old Dopping, who was still in a pretty bad temper, told the footman to go and be damned.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

The governor and the other man sat down and laughed till they were purple, but neither O'Connell nor old Dopping so much as smiled.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

Dopping and the other man, who seemed to be the coolest of the three, went over to the window and looked at the car.

Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907

I was hunting to dine with Mr. Harley to-day, but could not find him; and so I dined with honest Dr. Cockburn, and came home at six, and was taken out to next door by Dopping and Ford, to drink bad claret and oranges; and we let Raymond come to us, who talks of leaving the town to-morrow, but I believe will stay a day or two longer.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901