Hopper wrote a number of poems that were publisht in three volumes.
Hopper suddenly appeared at a meeting and after an impromptu debate "showing every evidence of being well prepared," as he said, some consciences were ill at ease.
Hopper had written some stirring verses, one on The Old Flag being especially noted.
The cockerel will, if growing nicely, be fairly plump and the hens, if on hopper rations of corn and beef scrap, will be about as fat as they can be profitably made, and to waste further effort upon them would not pay.
The best way to feed beef-scrap is to keep a supply in the hopper so the chickens may help themselves.
The hopper feeding of so-called dry mash or ground grain mixture has been quite a fad in the last few years.
I only hope she hasn't taken up with that clod-hopper Fenton while I've been away, for want of a better.
But I believe you like that clod-hopper Tom Fenton, ever so much better.
This poem, which was published some time since, Mrs. Hopper once recited to us, and both mamma and I were struck with the true ring of poesy so apparent in it.
Mrs. Hopper not only writes well; she is also a woman of varied and excellent reading, and the appreciation of the modern classics is displayed in one of her poems--an admirable apostrophe to the character and works of Dante.
Mrs. Hopper tells me you're a literary," he said at length.
Toward sunset I laid away my dead book, and went down to the sitting-room where Mrs. Hopper sat placidly mending.
He looked slightly annoyed, but he answered gayly, "I suppose Mrs. Hopper has been telling you I am a confirmed invalid.
Mr. Hopperhad evidently settled himself for the remainder of the evening, and after a time Mr. Longworth bade us good-night, and went across to the Bangs homestead.
I found Mr. Hopper a tall, bent old man, with meek, faded blue eyes, and a snowy frill of beard.
Mrs. Hopper told me that there was 'an orther,' in Wauchittic.
Mrs. Hopper indulged in an abrupt retrospective laugh of enjoyment.
Then, as they glided past the door, Stephen was disagreeably conscious of some one gazing down from above, and he recalled Eliphalet Hopper and his position.
Stephen nodded, and Mr. Hopperentered the hours after him.
Hood don't like him any more than you do, but he allows Hopper is a natural-born business man.
But in marches Hopper the next morning with twice the order.
Hopper 'callated' to get it, and another small one pitched in.
A partial comprehension of Mr. Hopper was dawning upon him.
What does Mr. Hopper do but go 'round there that very night and give a nigger two bits to put him at the old man's table.
But Mr. Hopper evidently thought he had gone too far.
Well," continued the Colonel, "I have been rather pushed the last week, and Hopper managed things for this dance.
I went up to see Hopper the other night, which was the first time in three months that I have been back of a theater, and it was like going home.
Now, you see why it takes an hour and a half to fetch her through," said the subaltern, unshipping the cartridge-hopper above his pet gun.
The hopper is drained, but unmoved still, The Miller who grinds in Time's Water Mill.
They then poured the first bagful into the hopper over the millstones, and went to hoist the gate.
When the last bagful was nearly ground and the hopper empty, all save a pint or so, Jock and George ran to shut the gate and stop the mill.
This was hurriedly flung into thehopper and came through into the meal-box at a great rate.
Away through the grass, laden with dew and "hopper spits," we careered, and came on the trail of the fox where he had brushed off the dew as he ran.
Another bagful was poured into the hopperand ground out; and then Addison and I brought along the third bagful.
Hopper belongs to our family, or the family belongs to him.
Quite right, and then when you were talking to Hopper you saw that case of champagne delivered.
The taciturn Hopperhad evidently been sent away for the occasion.
Business made it necessary for Friend Hopper to be in the city during the day-time, and a colored domestic remained with him to take charge of the house.
Friend Hopper went home to a late breakfast; and when he attempted to rise from the table, he was seized with violent pains in the back, in consequence of his fall.
Hopper was one of the board; and as the question was concerning a colored man, they referred it to him.
Friend Hopper jumped out, and asked if they would turn that big stone aside.
Friend Hopper replied, "The court is well aware that I am no lawyer.
Hopper to inform him of the circumstance, and they proceeded together to the mayor's office.
About two years afterward, Friend Hopper made the following record in his Register: "J.
When the master was gone, Friend Hopper said to the alarmed fugitive, "There now remains but one way for thee to obtain thy freedom.
They released him as soon as they discovered their mistake; but the next day Friend Hopper had them arrested, and compelled them to enter into bonds for their good behavior.
He did so, and found Friend Hopper already there, watching the clock.
Though attention to prisoners was the mission to which Friend Hopper peculiarly devoted the last years of his life, his sympathy for the slaves never abated.
He was not disposed to interfere; but when Friend Hopper drew a volume from his pocket and read to him the laws applicable to the case, he became alarmed, and said the boy must be given up.
Friend Hopperhad an interview with her soon after she was conveyed to Sing Sing, and found her in a state of deep dejection.
When provided with flushing rim, and with a good water-supply cistern and large supply pipe, the short hopper closet is a good form of water-closet.
These valves, as a rule, frequently get out of order and leak, and care must be taken to construct the vault under the hopper so that it be perfectly water-tight.
Short hopper closets are preferable, as they are easily kept clean and are well flushed.
The washout and washdown water-closets are an improvement upon the hopper closets.
In most cases, yard hoppers are flushed by automatic rod valves, so constructed as to flush the bowl of the hopper whenever the seat is pressed upon.
Iron hopper closets easily corrode; they are usually enameled on the inside.
An improved form of yard hopper has been suggested by Inspector J.
Where the water-closet accommodations cannot, for some reason, be put within the house, yard hopperclosets are commonly employed.
Still, it must be considered that if the fuel drops slowly, its prolonged detention within the walls of the hopper and its transformation into fusible slag may result in a disintegration of the refractory lining of the furnace.
The annular space surrounding this feed-hopper generally forms a chamber for receiving the gas produced, as in the Winterthur (Fig.
Below the charging-box is arranged, as a rule, a hopper tapered conically downward.
Care should be taken to fill the charging box to its upper edge and to adjust its cover accurately before operating the device which closes the feed-hopper (valve, cock).
In order to prevent explosions caused by the entrance of air, the feed-hopper should remain hermetically closed during the removal of the incandescent fuel through the doors of the combustion-chamber.
I think well of Hopper and trust that he will not turn out to be an 'ist of some kind, as most writers and artists do.
A chart showing the anatomy of a passenger-car, having every part of the car numbered and its proper name given in a reference list =25 Cents= =Steel Hopper Bottom Coal Car.
A chart showing the anatomy of a steel Hopper Bottom Coal Car, having every part of the car numbered and its proper name given in a reference list.
Love, joy, harmony, everything desirable to make the life of man a perfect condition of unalloyed, holy happiness reigned supreme.
A second Amos succeeded his father as the keeper of the records.
The muck which came through the shaft at Manhattan was dumped intohopper bins on the surface and thence loaded into trucks at convenience.
At Manhattan the sand and stone were received from the bins in chutes at a small hopper built on the permanent upper platform of the intercepting arch.
It is difficult to say why it should have stopped in mediis, for Hopper remained still in office, and died at Madrid ten years after the period to which he brings his narrative.
He never seems to have enjoyed the confidence of Philip in anything like the degree which Granvelle and some other ministers could boast; for Hopper was a Fleming.
Hopper does not hesitate to regard this circumstance as a leading cause of the discontents in Flanders.
Hopper was a jurist, a man of learning and integrity.
The fruit is delivered into a hopper filled with water, then from the hopper into boxes where the fruit is drained.
The mill was later improved with an all-glass hopper and a tumbler bracket.
The weighing machine has a hopper which lets the coffee down into a device that gauges the correct amount, say a pound or two pounds, and then pours it into the can.
It was a wall mill equipped with a glass-front metal hopper and employing a ratchet spring-lock nut and double-action grinders.
The correct construction of this hopper is of great importance, as the coffee must be deposited completely without breakage, and the air must pass on through the suction fan carrying nothing except bits of loose chaff.
Gage and others aiding and encouraging her in the consummation of her plans; with Dorothea Dix in the Hospitals, the untiring labors of Abby Hopper Gibbons and Jane G.
In other closets there is an intermediate plunger-valve separating the hopperfrom the trap.
An inverted sheet-iron hopper placed over the range, with an opening into either the flue or the outside of the house, will carry out the odors from cooking.
There should be at least a slop-hopper in the laundry.
Sometimes it is necessary to support the flap and seat by legs, though the modern closets are arranged so that all of the woodwork may be secured to the upper part of the hopper or the wall.
