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Ripper   Listen
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Ripper, Ripler  n.  (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. (Obs.) "But what's the action we are for now? Robbing a ripper of his fish."






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"Ripper" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing hapened to-day you ever saw. after brekfast me and father took a walk and then went and set down on the big school steps. father was telling me some of the things he and Gim Melcher used to do. father must have been a ripper when he was young. well ennyway while we was talking old Ike Shute came along through the school yard. Ike wears specks and always carries a little basket on his arm. he cant see very well, and father said to me, now you jest ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute

... gratifying to the citizen of London travelling abroad, to learn that in the mind of the foreigner the great Metropolis is primarily and chiefly associated with "JACK the Ripper" and ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 3rd, 1891 • Various

... of errors introduced by the OCR. A lot of my colleagues worry that these books also have deliberate errors, created by mischievous book-rippers who cut, add or change text in order to "improve" the work. Frankly, I have never seen any evidence that any book-ripper is interested in doing this, and until I do, I think that this is the last thing anyone ...
— Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books • Cory Doctorow

... more details. Angela was the daughter of a doctor at Surbiton, and apparently a damsel of accomplishments. She could punt, play tennis, dance, sing, and make her own blouses; in a word, a "ripper," "top-hole," and no mistake! Ajax slightly raised his brows when we learned that the course of true love had run smooth; but the doctor's blessing was adequately accounted ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell

... Trocadero or in a hansom, threading the mazes of the City, bound for a plate of beefsteak pie at "The Cheshire Cheese" or on top of a 'bus on Saturday night, going through the Whitechapel region, creepy with horrors of "Jack the Ripper." ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell



Words linked to "Ripper" :   murderer, liquidator, Jack the Ripper



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