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Example sentences for "roup"

Lexicographically close words:
roundness; rounds; roundsman; roundup; roundworms; rous; rouse; rouseabout; roused; rouser
  1. ROUP Roup sometimes appears in a loft, especially during damp weather or when the birds have not had proper housing.

  2. I didn't think I'd come back to find a roup at Little Vantage.

  3. They were both bidding at the roup and some business thegither.

  4. The distinguishing characteristic of roup is not so-called "swell head" or other form of cold, but the offensive roupy odor.

  5. The corner cupboard had been bought by Aaron at a roup because she said she would like to have one; it was she who had chosen the six cups and saucers with the blue spots on them.

  6. There are houses in Thrums where you may still be told who got the bed and who the rocking-chair, and how Nether Drumgley's wife dared him to come home without the spinet; but it is not by the sales that the roup is best remembered.

  7. The counting of these bottles was a labor, but it is not even by them that the roup is remembered.

  8. Jock referred to the Burnbrae roup as long as he lived, and gave incidents with dramatic force in the train, but every one knows he had nothing to do with its success.

  9. Did ye ever hear o' a roup comin' aff on sic like drink?

  10. This severity was hard on Jock, for he was understood to have found his role in auctioneering, and a roup was the great day of his life.

  11. Three days later it was understood at the "smiddy" that Burnbrae's roup was likely to be a success.

  12. Na, na, the man that wants tae buy at Burn-brae's roup 'ill need tae pay.

  13. When Whinnie joined the fathers he only referred to Milton's roup as a rumour that had reached his ears, and might have been discussed at length on any other day.

  14. Ye'ill no see a roup like that twice in a generation.

  15. The roup was no a week after; an', oh, it was a grievous sicht to see hoo the crop an' the cattle went for just naething.

  16. The mustard-seed of a feud between the two parishes shot into a tall tree in a single night, when Davit Lunan's father went to a tattie roup at Tilliedrum and thoughtlessly died there.

  17. The auctioneer was screamed at for favouring his friends, and at times the roup became so noisy that men and women had to be forcibly ejected.

  18. A man would come to the roup late, and learn that the seat he wanted had been knocked down.

  19. In "sour weather," when colds may be expected to appear, use Pratts Roup Remedy in the drinking water.

  20. To bring them into a warm, tightly closed house is to invite general debility and an epidemic of colds, catarrh, roup and other allied diseases.

  21. I also use your Disinfectant, Lice Powder and Roup Remedy.

  22. I gave Pratts Roup Remedy a careful test on a flock of 50 growing white Wyandotte chicks in October which were infected with bad colds, and after treating one week with your roup remedy nearly every one was well.

  23. Treat the sick with Pratts Condition Tablets in addition to the Roup remedy.

  24. Pratts Roup Remedy dissolved in the drinking water every few days, especially during changes of weather, will help to prevent such troubles.

  25. Treatment: Pratts Condition Tablets to quickly tone up the system and Pratts Roup Remedy to overcome the disease.

  26. Keeps show birds in condition | |and prevents colds, roup and liver trouble.

  27. After the roup was over, about thirty people engaged in a battle, every man for his own hand, and fought it out for three hours.

  28. They are tame, tractable fowls, but inclined to roup and similar diseases in our climate, and therefore prosper most on a dry, light soil, and can scarcely have too much sun.

  29. ROUP is caused by exposure to excessive wet or very cold winds.

  30. Mr. Wright advises half a grain of cayenne pepper with half a grain of powdered allspice in a bolus of the meal, or one of Baily's roup pills to be given daily.

  31. As for you, dad, I know you will do what is right; and see how good it would be for us all to let Roup and Elsie come.

  32. Roup is a disease of the wrong system and careless management.

  33. The first symptoms of roup are those of an ordinary cold, but as the disease progresses a cheesy secretion appears in the head and throat.

  34. The most certain way of identifying roup is a characteristic sickening odor.

  35. Some of my readers may take exception to me either in regard to roup or white diarrhoea.

  36. Roup may be caused by a number of different bacteria which are commonly found in the air and soil.

  37. When chickens catch cold these germs find lodgment in the nasal passages and roup ensues.

  38. Chronic roup has been known to extend through two years.

  39. On the day after, there was a crowd of people in the Town-Hall of Peebles, and the auctioneer was reading aloud the articles of roup of the lands of Whitecraigs.

  40. Yes; or I had bought it at a roup when other people were going out.

  41. Then, if they had no money, the landlord would have to go and take their corn or their cattle and roup them in order to get his rent, and the people would be losers.

  42. Perhaps Mr Mack's correspondent would say, rather than impose such a condition on the young men, we should roup up their fathers and turn them out of the Islands as paupers, when the sons would be compelled by law to assist them?

  43. They generally go to the roup at Voe, and have a chance of selling them there.

  44. Is that one of the conditions and articles of roup which are read over at the commencement of the sale?

  45. The terms and conditions of roup are the same at them all.

  46. Keep your turkey house clean and dry, and if you see any sign of this disease it is much better to remove the droppings every day, and if taken in time roup is not a fatal disease.

  47. Turkeys are subject to roup from the time they are babies, more so than common hens, as a cold is the cause of all their trouble.

  48. It is only natural that conditions such as these will bring on roup and all kinds of diseases.

  49. ROUP Roup is a highly contagious malady which first affects the lining membrane of the beak and then extends to the eyes, throat, and whole head, eventually involving the entire constitution.

  50. It may, however, attend other diseases, and when its cause is not known, the article pertaining to roup should especially be consulted.

  51. Upon opening a turkey that has died of roup one will find the liver and gall bladder full of pus, the flesh soft, of a bad odor, and, particularly about the lungs, slimy and spongy.

  52. If it is, roup is to be treated; if not, catarrh or bronchitis.

  53. Birds hatched amid such surroundings are tainted with roup and other afflictions.


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