"Croupy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Captain became solicitous, and stationed a night-guard over his precious government mules. It would never do to have a bandit get away with a U. S. brand. It never does matter about private property, but anything with U. S. on it has got to be looked after, like a croupy child. ...
— Crooked Trails • Frederic Remington
... them for many a year. According to these venerable ladies, Albert, who was certainly a delicate, nervous child, was one of those "little angels" who are destined not to survive the dimpled, golden-curled, lisping, and croupy period; being too good and sweet and exquisite for this wicked and rough world. But, according to certain entries in the Prince's own diary—his first, begun in his sixth year—he at that age happily revealed ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood
... of common sense would attempt to discuss "The Style of Walter Pater" to fifty thousand restless and croupy auditors in the vast San Diego stadium, but the average free lance sees nothing of equal absurdity about attempting to cram an essay on Pater down the throats of a miscellaneous crowd in a stadium which ...
— If You Don't Write Fiction • Charles Phelps Cushing
... gran'dad used to come. I was a little boy an' croupy, and he seemed big as a house when he came in at the door. He was taller ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... two inches long. She wouldn't have known him except for his hair—and that was terribly tousled; and his eyes, though they were wild and angry. His voice was hoarse, and while he glared at her, he coughed with a hard, croupy resonance. ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower |
