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It was a beastly cropper—this wedding mess—and I've gone to pieces over it, for I did love Rosamond awfully.
THE TIGRESSANNE WARNER
Crikey, you should 'a seen 'im come a cropper on his nut down them new steps.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 100., FEBRUARY 7, 1891VARIOUS
She began to wonder very much what was the matter with Rupert, and guessed that he had "come an awful cropper" of some kind.
DECEMBER LOVEROBERT HICHENS
My colloquial Japanese comes a cropper now and then—but I get what I want, which is the main thing.
A JOURNAL FROM JAPANMARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES
This view illustrates a double cropper in which both the spirals are controlled by one belt.
THE JUTE INDUSTRY: FROM SEED TO FINISHED CLOTHT. WOODHOUSE AND P. KILGOUR
I always said 274 you ought to have stopped at home; girls like you generally do come the worst cropper.
THE MAKING OF A PRIGEVELYN SHARP
Then came a telephone call for me; Reason came a nasty cropper under Instinct's sudden leap.
I WALKED IN ARDENJACK CRAWFORD
This one was not much of a dancer and in a moment my partner and I came a cropper almost on top of them.
BACK AT SCHOOL WITH THE TUCKER TWINSNELL SPEED
Beastly shame, he had said, in parting, that I could only see the Giants when they were coming a cropper.
BASEBALL JOE, CAPTAIN OF THE TEAMLESTER CHADWICK
I called the other day on Mrs. Fullarton, and there saw your friend Sally Cropper.
THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON COMPILED FROM FAMILY LETTERS AND REMINISCENCESSARAH N. RANDOLPH
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

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