chopes

LFMD - there are no words to get you through the loss of a pet. it just sucks. i remember reading ian's post when chopes went to doggy heaven and i remember it was just beautiful - maybe worth another read.

augmentin' my misomania 2009

France que faute d'avoir pu gagner honnêtement, sans grand travail, dans l'exercice d'un profession correcte, une vie obscure humectée de chopes.

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

They never could survive all this misery, this bitter disappointment of all their chopes.

Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Petit, and Chollet ” who, provided with a letter of introduction by their master, called on Field soon after his arrival in Paris and beheld the great pianist ” in a room filled with tobacco smoke, sitting in an easy chair, an enormous pipe in his mouth, surrounded by large and small bottles of all sorts [entoure de chopes et bouteilles de toutes provenances].

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888