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  • Safran: Well, the Thorpes are all part of the same spine, which is sort of 'the sins of the father,' or parents rather, that we've created this year.

    Gossip Girl: Dan and Blair Aren't Over! Plus, More Season-Ending Spoilers 2011

  • Everything that Christopher sees about the Thorpes indicates they are indeed the perfect couple.

    Deadly Dating Stephanie 2007

  • Everything that Christopher sees about the Thorpes indicates they are indeed the perfect couple.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Stephanie 2007

  • I have already mentioned professor Thorpes paper in comment #6 of this thread.

    Mother Jones: The Mann behind the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit 2005

  • Are y'all related to all the Thorpes up in that area?

    Oral History Interview with Floyd Alston Jr., November 29, 1995. Interview Q-0002. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1995

  • It seems improbable that Jane Austen can have written anything other than 'at the Thorpes' '; but no edition has had the courage to make the change.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • In the inner room Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery and was engaged on making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows, and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • In the inner room, Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery, and was engaged in making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • In the inner room, Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery, and was engaged in making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back.

    Three Men and a Maid Wodehouse, P. G. 1922

  • We can imagine how Miss Austen would observe all these people, noting their talk as they passed and repassed her; and how, perhaps, as she detected the airs and graces and veiled selfishness of some, or admired the genuine simplicity of others, she might smile at the thought of her portraiture of the Thorpes, the Allens, and the Tilneys, and of Catherine Morland lying hidden away in her travelling trunk.

    Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

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