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Example sentences for "poppa"

Lexicographically close words:
popolani; popolari; popoli; popover; popovers; popped; popper; poppet; poppied; poppies
  1. Why, Poppa and I saw the entire show I inside of ten minutes, before breakfast!

  2. Poppa wouldent say a word to him, and he kept following poppa up, to make him.

  3. You and poppa were so patient and forbearing, all through; and I thank goodness now for everything you put up with; only I wish I could have borne everything myself.

  4. Well, there's one thing; I won't call him poppa any more.

  5. Boyne says be wouldent take no for an ansir, and hung on and hungon, till poppa threatened to hitt him with his cane.

  6. He says he doesn't want poppa to think he's posing.

  7. Poppa wouldn't think anything that was unjust," said Ellen, gravely.

  8. I don't know where they went, but he told poppa they were going home to-day any way.

  9. He wants poppa to advise him whether to go back to his congregation in New York or not.

  10. I want poppa to be there, and Lottie and Boyne even.

  11. The girl was a long time silent again before she asked, "Has poppa got the tickets?

  12. He was never certain how much she had heard of the gossip when she came to her mother, and said with the gentle eagerness she had, "Didn't poppa talk once of going South this winter?

  13. If poppa gets too homesick we will go back in the fall.

  14. I will write to him not to come, and poppa must go back and get his ticket again.

  15. Poppa left for Monte this morning," Mamie explained over the soup.

  16. Poppa guessed we would take a villa later on if we felt like it.

  17. I got a letter from her last week, and it seems as she's coming back here to find out who laid her poppa out.

  18. Poppa wanted to teach them poker, and they kicked like mad at the very idea; but that was when he visited them before, I guess.

  19. I guess poppa won't let him come near me again.

  20. Like Washington, they can't tell a lie for a red cent; so you can believe I was there with poppa on Christmas Eve, only he went away, and I stayed all night.

  21. I have such a lot to do, and Mr. Denzil is coming with me, as poppa wants to consult him about some law business.

  22. You go and look him up, while I tell poppa what a mean white he is.

  23. Poppa and I are coming soon to have a long evening--to play whist again.

  24. I've been treated badly all round, and I don't know what poppa will say.

  25. Poppa reckoned the air would be kind of fresher on the top of this mountain, and I don't believe but what he's right either.

  26. It's ever so elegant,--and there's Poppa around on the top too.

  27. Those works that the viscount and poppa are getting fixed up there, whatever they mean them for, must be something pretty wonderful, for they're spending quite a lot of money on them.

  28. Shouldn't wonder if Lord Orrel and poppa were sending your friends an invitation to supper, or breakfast, or whatever you'd call it in this everlasting daylight.

  29. I reckon poppa and the viscount would give something to know that, too," said Chrysie, as they turned into a confectioner's.

  30. Of course, it is to be hoped that everything will go off smoothly, but poppa had a friend in the old times who said something that means a lot.

  31. I don't believe Poppa would have stopped his yacht if he'd struck a whole burying lot afloat.

  32. Poppa was rummaging in a drawer far above Oley's head, so he couldn't see the object under discussion.

  33. Your Momma and Poppa will be in to see you in just a minute.

  34. Was Poppa trying to make the shorts he needed?

  35. So the cause of the short that Momma and Poppa yakked so loudly about was never attributed to Oley's actions, but only to "How could a needle have gotten from your sewing machine into this lamp cord, Alice?

  36. And Poppa seemed to have a new softness that he'd seldom seen before.

  37. I'm not Daisy van Bean, and my poppa isn't a railroad king.

  38. Any way, that day away we went across the lake, and when the snow drove us down from the hills the day after, the folks near the railroad were all in a stew about the remains of Bates's partner, the poppa of the young lady.

  39. And by and by Poppa opened the door and said: 'Oh, you're back, are you?

  40. I couldn't hear what started it, but finely it woke me up and I listened, and Momma was cryin' and Poppa was swearin'.

  41. Poppa said that the journey was really nothing nowadays, and he could easily get me a letter of introduction to the captain.

  42. Poppa and Momma, and all the dear ones of Mrs. Portheris's Christmas card, are quite in their usual state of health.

  43. We had been the greatest friends and regular correspondents for three or four years--our tastes in literature and art were almost exactly the same, and it was a mutual pleasure to keep it up--but poppa had never met him before.

  44. But poppa said No, his aunt must be getting up in years now, and an elderly English lady might easily be frightened into apoplexy by a cablegram.

  45. II I AM not much acquainted in New York, so I had only poppa and Mr. Winterhazel to see me off.

  46. It was a matter of some regret to poppa that Messrs.

  47. Poppa says he was always an earnest little lad; always reading everything he could get hold of--which wasn't very much in the early days, as you may imagine.

  48. And it calls the turn, as poppa would say.

  49. Poppa would take passage for Honolulu to-morrow if he had an idea that you'd like to see the Kanakas ride surf-boards.

  50. You didn't see what poppa gave me to read: it was an account of a suicide.

  51. Poppa and Jack were partners in the 'Vesta,' and Mr. Hawley hadn't seen me since I was in pinafores.

  52. When it came to the apportionment they both said 'thirds,' and that is what poppa and Dick are waiting to say to you now.

  53. You ought to have seen me yesterday, when poppa brought old Jack Hawley home with him.

  54. Poppa would lend him more money, but he wouldn't take it,--not from us.

  55. Indeed I do; he comes next to poppa with me.

  56. Poppa had his bigger salary, and as it was getting tedious seeing couples married I made haste to come over again.

  57. His example was a noble one--the first picture I am offered money for shall go to poppa instead.

  58. The mistakes began by poppa discovering I was a musical genius, and as I was just mad to do something big in the world, I believed him.

  59. Poor hardworked poppa can't send me any more money just now, but he'll be getting a bigger salary next year, and I shall be able to go back and paint a masterpiece for the Salon.

  60. I was now determined that nothing should stand in the way of my returning to Paris, that poppa somehow must raise the necessary money--even if he ran into debt.

  61. In the meanwhile I shall have to amuse myself as best I can sketching about the place, and watching poppa getting through big batches of couples.

  62. Of course, it will be very nice to be at home with poppa and mamma again, but I should not be leaving Paris from choice.

  63. As a rule, poppa is not quite so generous.

  64. If poppa was shot at from behind a hedge, I guess there's nothing would keep me away from him.

  65. He did not speak, but his long-lashed eyes, brooding upon the perfection within his grasp, lifted for a moment to his father's face a deep look of such intensity that poppa was startled.

  66. In the dusk Aunt Susan and poppa sat on the porch and talked.

  67. Suddenly Prue put her head in at the door and gasped: "What in Heaven's name are you and poppa up to?

  68. I might get poppa to sign his name," she smiled.

  69. Poppa is so set on the idea of my being a duchess.

  70. Oh, as for that, a man always makes a good enough husband if you have the control of the dollars, and poppa would see to that," said Miss Trumpet.

  71. Cadwallader, anxiously, "On this trip I am answerable to her poppa for Corrisande's safety.

  72. But there is the bother of a foreign language, and all their silly ways to learn, so I told poppa I would have an English one or marry an American.

  73. An Italian duke came over last fall, and poppa thought of him for about a day.

  74. Poppa said he was bound to have me Scotch in one thing at least, even if it took a strap.

  75. I could have told you were a doll man: I noticed you turning over the pennies in your pants' pocket, same as poppa used when he saw any nice clean little girl like me, and he was the dolliest man in all Chicago.

  76. Has poppa been working himself to death while I've been away?

  77. Mr. Rodney was telling us about that little First-Church mission in Pottery Flat, and poppa wanted to help.

  78. It was the very day on which poppa met me on my way back from Florida, and we took the eleven-thirty train north that night.

  79. Yes and no; if you knew how the poor dear Colonel has been sold, and my poppa before him, you'd say 'tis best.

  80. So I merely bowed with what magnificence I could command and filed it, so to speak; and walked to the other side of the deck, leaving poppa to his conscience and momma and his Aunt Caroline.

  81. It was mean of me to put poppa to the blush, but I had to define the situation.

  82. His poor mind seemed wholly taken up with one anticipative idea, and whatever failed to minister to that he hadn't, as poppa sadly said, any use for.

  83. Poppa said it was very gratifying to find that Cristoforo had been able, in his declining years, when he was our only European representative, to keep his end up with credit to America.

  84. Outside, however, poppa found it difficult to approve the façade.

  85. There are things that can't be passed over with a smile in one's poppa without doing him harm, and this was one of them.

  86. Poppa and I thought it mere amiability that scorned to conceal itself, but momma referred to it otherwise, admitting, however, that she found it fascinating to watch.

  87. Poppa made two further attempts to inform himself upon the leading manufacturing interest of Bologna.

  88. I pointed out the Pantheon down below and St. Etienne du Mont, and poppa was immediately filled with a poignant regret that we had spent so much time seeing public buildings on foot.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poppa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.