Talking of the Devil, puts one in mind of his imps; and talking of Quakers, puts one in mind of Jemmy Cropper of Liverpool.
These they afterwards packed up and sent off to Cropper and Co.
Now that he's come a cropper and failed in his exam.
I bet he came a nasty cropper over that disqualification.
There warn't a cropper in the village drank harder nor oi, but oi maad oop moi moind when she came to gi' it up, and oi have gi'd it up.
Well, they say that no cropper is in the place of punishment.
Anger and fear for Ned's safety nerved Luke's arm, the weight of the last twenty years seemed to drop off him, and he felt himself again the sturdy young cropper who could hold his own against any in the village.
Handwork cannot compete with machinery, and the new machines will face a dozen yards of cloth while a cropper is doing one, and will do it much better and more evenly.
A lot of men, in my line and in others, have come a cropper in their careers, because of some woman.
But I'm the first to come such a cropper on account of a woman with a white soul and the eyes of a child,--a woman I scarcely know, and who has no interest in me.
But what the foozle is to the golfer, the cropper to the rider, the spill in midstream to the boatman, the fall at the end of the jump is to the ski-man.
Next moment I had also come a cropper at ditch, and rolled down on top of my prey.
Cassy began talking about the biggest cropper that history has beheld--a tsar tossed from the saddle to Siberia!
The rate Potter was traveling, he was bound to come a cropper some day," said Randall, virtuously.
You could trust him to make it a gilt-edged, sensational cropper when he got to it," La Mothe rejoined.
Guthrie's late Green, "a most delicious dessert plum and the heaviest cropper here (i.
He had not swallowed up widows and orphans, and had done his work in the firm of Cropper and Burgess after the old-fashioned safe manner, which leads neither to riches nor to ruin.
There was more than one little struggle between him and Mr. Julius Cropper, which ended in accession of respect on the part of Mr. Cropper for his new partner.
It may be doubted whether there was a happier young woman in England than Dorothy Stanbury when that September came which was to make her the wife of Mr. Brooke Burgess, the new partner in the firm of Cropper and Burgess.
It's to be 'Cropper and Burgess,'" he said to Dorothy one afternoon.
Once he came a cropper over a protruding spit of graveled beach, but picked himself up and was soon on his way again.
That cropper you came evidently hasn't hurt your imagination," chuckled the detective as he loosened the coarse string about the package.
Neighbor" started out brilliantly but came a cropper at the end.
So I know, of course, that you have come another cropper in your fortune-hunting.
I began on the next verse viciously, and came a cropper over the clash of two sibilants, as the distant clamour increased.
I should scarcely have thought you troubled whom you came a moral cropper with!
Howson, afterward Dean of Chester, married a sister of the John Cropper who married Susan Arnold, and was thus a few years later brought into connection with the Arnolds and Fox How.
Lord Victor, somewhat puzzled by Ananda's denial of ownership and then the admittance of it, concluded that the prince was still upset by the cropper he had come off the elephant.
He's sailed, my dear--sailed in the John Cropper this very blessed morning!
The boatmen hailed the John Cropper just as the crew were heaving anchor, and told their errand.
The landlady's son told her that the John Cropper would be waiting for high-water to cross the sandbanks at the river's mouth, and that there was a chance that a sailing-boat might overtake the vessel.
I reckon I know now what made me come a cropper into the rose bush.
You--you pinked my pony with a peashooter and made me come a cropper in a rose bush.
Every second she expected to see him come a cropper and fall the remaining distance down the mountainside, but Chunky did nothing of the sort.
The bandit, as a result, came a cropper over the pony's head.
I were to go to-day, with Mrs. Cropperand Lady Hatherton, to call on the poet Rogers.
We left about ten o'clock, and went to pass the night with our friends Mr. and Mrs. Cropper at their hotel, being engaged to breakfast at the West End in the morning.
This cabin was in better repair and larger than the other two cabins and the hardest thing to do was to get a tenant or negro cropper to take this cabin.
Everything went along beautifully until time came to House the tobacco and not a negro cropper would use this barn for his tobacco.
Well, look here, Tregenna, Cropperand Grey want to sell the old Wheal Carnac machinery.
Look here, Mr Penwynn, I know Cropper and Grey, the trustees, of course.
But when one has travelled on for many years and come many a cropper on the way one does long to show one's children the short cuts!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cropper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
