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When we arrived at what is known as Tippets's farm, the rebels, who were sheltered by Wilson's house, poured a volley down the road, and without inquiring the cause of such unkind treatment, on their part, this "individual" _retired_ some twenty yards.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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Painting on Gauze & Catgut, proposes to open a School, and that her business may be a public good, designs to teach the making of all sorts of French Trimmings, Flowers, and Feather Muffs and Tippets.
Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881
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Terrible show, in their brave Scarlet Robes and Fur Tippets, with great monstrous Wigs, and the King's Arms behind them under a Canopy, done in
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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_ Feather Muffs and Tippets to be had; and Gauze wash'd to look as well as new.
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He got married two years ago, and I have not seen much of him since, but he's a sharp fellow, and knows a good deal more of the Tippets than I was aware of.
Fighting the Flames 1859
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French, entitled _The Tippets of the Canons Ecclesiastical_.
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In a school where the Miss Tippets were considered the aristocracy, the appearance of so great a woman as Lady
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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Tippets took Virginia under their protection, and this magnanimity on their part silenced all opposition.
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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Particulars; and that we shall see the Town filled in a very little time with Poetical Tippets, Handkerchiefs, Snuff-Boxes, and the like Female Ornaments.
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Master - Attendant at Deptford, is to be one of us very soon, he and Tippets being to take their turns for Chatham and Portsmouth, which choice I like well enough; and Captain Annesley is to come in his room at Deptford.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb/Mar 1668/69 Pepys, Samuel 1669
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