Do we say cops or copse

cops 60 occurrences

I'll have you know that I am only nicked by the best cops on Broadway, and not by any high-grass constable.

So Wilbur lopes on, carelessly knocking over a couple of cops on his way out.

A black man being beaten by white cops in Los Angeles is captured on a home video camera and appears on television sets around the globe overnight.

Unsubstantiated and bungled raids on young hackers and their families turned law enforcement into the Keystone Cops of cyberspace and the US Justice Department into a sworn enemy of the shareware community's most valuable members.

Two state cops were drinking coffee at one end of the counter.

I didn't know you was cops.

"I don't give a damn how smart you fly-cops areyou can't prove nothin' on me.

Sar-r-gint Leary came, Wid near a dozen other cops, and stopped the purty game; But niver did Oi see dhress-suits in sich a mortial state As thim the or-r-ators had on at our big j'int debate.

I'll telephone for the cops.

"It's a long story, mates, but it seems this is one rotten Government and everybody knows it but a few cops.

If someone would only call off the cops and let the fur-faces run it we might have a regular country.

But this is not a story about police brutality, for most cops are not brutal.

"Cops and prison keepers and bondsmen and under sheriffs, and all kinds of crooked petty officials.

Nothing happened until the cops had got Eset out of the window and she was over at Regan's.

"I've told the cops who done it.

Da cops pinch-a Spatola, and for why, eh?

WINDING: ROLLS AND COPS XIII.

WINDING: ROLLS AND COPS

The cops are almost invariably wound direct from the spinning bobbins, the exception being coloured yarn which is wound from hank.

The disposition of the cops in the winding operation is vertical, but while in some machines the tapered nose of the cop is in the high position and the spinning bobbin from which the yarn is being drawn is in the low position, in other machines these conditions are opposite.

Thus, in the cop winding frame made by Messrs. Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd., Arbroath, and illustrated in Fig. 25, the spinning bobbins are below the cops, the tapered noses of the latter are upwards in their cones or shapers, and the yarn guides are near the top of the machine.

This view shows about three-fourths of the full width of a 96-spindle machine, 48 spindles on each side, two practically full-length cops and one partially built.

Cops may be made of any length and any suitable diameter; a common size for jute shuttle is 10 in.

CALCUTTA, jute machinery introduced into Calender finish Calenderoy Carding Card waste Cargoes of jute Chest finish Clasp-rods Conditioning fibre Cops Cop winding Corchorus capsularis clitorius Crisping and crisping machines Cropping machine Cultivation of jute Cutting knife for jute fibre Cuttings.

Warping, beaming and dressing mill Washing Waste teazer Weaves or designs Weaving Weaver's lease Weeding of plants Weft winding Wilton carpet Winding (bobbin) machine from hank (large roll) machine (ordinary size from hanks) machine rolls and cops World's great war.

copse 203 occurrences

Even recently, writes Sir John Lubbock[10], an oak copse at Loch Siant, in the Isle of Skye, was held so sacred that no persons would venture to cut the smallest branch from it.

It is generally agreed that fairies were extremely fond of dancing around oaks, and thus in addressing the monarch of the forest a poet has exclaimed: "The fairies, from their nightly haunt, In copse or dell, or round the trunk revered Of Herne's moon-silvered oak, shall chase away Each fog, each blight, and dedicate to peace Thy classic shade.

The tortured copse bends to and fro In silence like a shadow-show.

All the land had been purchased northward on the plateau, from the farm of Mareuil to the farm of Lillebonne; there was not a copse that did not belong to the Froments, and thus beside the surging sea of corn there rose a royal park of centenarian trees.

A man lies stretched on his blanket in a copse in the depths of a black pine forest of the Saginaw Valley.

The man lying in the copse is puzzled at his own condition, but he does not seek to analyze it.

"But soon he forgot that also, for as he came up the hounds were thrown off, and they drew the Gravel Hanger, and afterwards the Hickory Copse.

They were two miles over the green shoulder of a hill, a rattle down a stony, deep-rutted country lane, where the mare stumbled and nearly came down, a jump over a 5ft. brook, a cut through a hazel copse, another dose of heavy ploughland, a couple of gates to open, and then the green, unbroken Downs beyond.

The wild geese flying South sent their faint carol from the cloudsthe swamp sparrow twittered, and the still copse was stirred by the silent croak of some wandering wild turkey, or the far forest made most musical with that sound which the master of Wharncliffe Lodge delighted in, the "belling of the hart.

It was not long before the turkey's call was again heard from a thick copse on his left.

32 Through the branches of the copse in which she was hidden, the girl saw the sun descend in the west, a streak of slowly dropping fire.

She was instantly in the saddle, but, by the time she reached the edge of the copse, she found it to be only a wagon filled with singing men going back to some nearby ranch.

The cliffs, some thirty feet high where we stood, rose to some hundred at the mouth, in intense black and copper and olive shadows, with one bright green tree in front of a cave's mouth, on which, it seemed, the sun had never shone; while a thousand feet overhead were glimpses of the wooded mountain-tops, with tender slanting lights, for the sun was growing low, through blue-gray mist on copse and lawn high above.

So away we went over the dewy paddocks, through broad-leaved grasses, and the pink balls of the sensitive-plants and blue Commelyna, and the upright negro Ipecacuanha, {216} with its scarlet and yellow flowers, gayest and commonest of weeds; then down into a bamboo copse, and across a pebbly brook, and away toward the mountains.

The reader must fancy for himself the loveliest brook which he ever saw in Devonshire or Yorkshire, Ireland or Scotland; crystal-clear, bedded with gray pebbles, broken into rapids by rock-ledges or great white quartz boulders, swirling under steep cliffs, winding through flats of natural meadow and copse.

In the hollow of the ravine, where a considerable brook ran into the lake, lay a mill, half hidden among the trees, a sweetly retired spot, most beautifully surrounded; and through the entire semicircle, over which the view extended, ran an endless variety of hills and valleys, copse and forest, the early green of which promised the near approach of a luxuriant clothing of foliage.

If I went around the house, I was almost on the Broadway of Tautira, the home of Ori-a-Ori before me, and a coral church close to it, with other buildings and groves toward the mango copse of T'yonni.

It was the time when meadow and copse are green; when orchards grow white with bloom, and birds break into song as thickly as the bush to flower.

Henceforth I prize thy wiry chant O'er all that mass and minster vaunt: For men mishear thy call in spring, As 'twould accost some frivolous wing, Crying out of the hazel copse, "Phebe!"

330 He trudged along through copse and brake, He trudged along o'er hill and dale; Nor for the moon cared he a tittle, And for the stars he cared as little, And for the murmuring river Swale.

Sometimes the elevations were covered with a thicket or copse, in which our dogs would generally rouse up one or more deer.

Here, on the edge of the copse, the river widens to a considerable pool, and coming upon it softly through the wood from behindthe boggy, moss-covered ground masking and muffling my foot-fallI have surprised a great, graceful ash-and-white heron, standing all unconscious on the shallow bottom, in the very act of angling for minnows.

Yesterday our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. Cass Beard, long and favorably known in this county, succeeded in exhuming the treasure in a copse of hazel near the Red Chief turnpike,adjacent to the spot where an unknown body was lately discovered.

The guide-book gives scarce a hint of them; but turn from its page and they meet you at every step, hail you from every homestead, every copse.

They found a fox after some delay in a copse on the side of a hill, and the run that followed scattered even Anne's sedateness to the winds.

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