Do we say stoops or stoup

stoops 217 occurrences

who with her leads Sweet Innocence, that prattles by her side, A naked boy!Harassed with fear I stop, I gaze, when Virtue thus'Whoe'er thou art, Mortal, by whom I deign to be beheld In these my midnight walks; depart, and say, That henceforth I and my immortal train Forsake Britannia's isle; who fondly stoops To vice, her favourite paramour.'

[1004] She Stoops to Conquer was first acted on March 15, 1773.

This passage is copied by Goldsmith in She Stoops to Conquer, act iii., where Marlow says to Miss Hardcastle: 'Odso!

The Giustinian stoops not in taking thee.

He knows not the nature of cowardice, for his rest is set up upon resolution; his strongest fortification is his mind, which beats off the assaults of idle humours, and his life is the passage of danger, where an undaunted spirit stoops to no fortune.

Roses redden the cheeks of her who stoops to gather them, and buttercups turn little people's chins yellow.

I'm pickin' up stones to break their 'eads withgood stones ain't such easy findin' in the dark, an' every time I stoops 'alf a dozen curs makes a rush for mewhen what d'you suppose?

Thus she, and none but she, the insulting rage Of heretics opposed from age to age: Still when the giant-brood invades her throne, She stoops from heaven, and meets them half way down, And with paternal thunder vindicates her crown.

175, n. 1; She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 208, n. 5; Gordon Riots, iii. 429, n. 3; v. 328, n. 2; Gower, Lord, i. 296, n. 1; Granger's patron, iii. 91; Gray, Sir James, ii. 177, n. 1; Grenville, George, ii. 135, n. 2; Gunning, the Misses, v. 359, n. 2; Hagley Park, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 1; Hamilton, W. G., i. 520; Heroic Epistle ascribed to him, iv.

The child of the wild; illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops.

STOOPS, HERBERT MORTON, illus.

Rome stoops to conquer.

Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops.

SEE Stong, Phil. STOOPS, HERBERT MORTON.

by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, Charles B. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucile Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops & Adolph Treidler.

Illustrated by Herbert Norton Stoops.

Illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops.

Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops.

by Herbert Morton Stoops.

by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, Charles R. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucile Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops, Katherine Sturges & Adolph Treidler.

by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, Charles B. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucile Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops, Katherine Sturges & Adolph Treidler.

by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, Charles B. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucile Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops, Katherine Sturges & Adolph Treidler.

Illustrated & designed by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, Charles B. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucile Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops, Katherine Sturges & Adolph Treidler.

Hunt Manufacturing Co. (PWH); 11Sep69; R468493. STOOPS, HERBERT.

We are in some danger of becoming petty in our study of pettiness; there is a terrible Circean law in the background that if the soul stoops too ostentatiously to examine anything it never gets up again.

stoup 79 occurrences

Note also the holy-water stoup, squint, sedilia, and double piscina.

The sanctuary contains a sedile and piscina, and a stoup and a rougher piscina will be found in the nave.

Note also (1) stoup, (2) fine Perp. font, (3) large squint, (4) some good bench-ends, (5) medallions of ancient glass, with figures of St Thomas a Becket, St Dunstan, St Aldhelm, etc.

Externally should also be noted (1) the vigorous, though defaced, series of gargoyles above the S. porch, representing an amateur orchestra; (2) the remains of a stoup; (3) the curious chamber at the S.E. end of the S. transept.

There is also a fine groined vault to the S. porch (which has a good stoup outside).

It has a small church, retaining a fine stoup and some fragments of ancient glass in the E. window.

There is a stoup at the W. entrance, and another in the N. chapel.

door (note stoup).

It has a church which retains its old tower (with a gabled roof); but all other traces of antiquity have been obliterated, save for the remains of a stoup in the porch.

Note (1) stoup in porch, (2) the vigorously executed gargoyles, especially the pair over the porch, a mediaeval presentation of Darby and Joan.

The "Virginia Inn" at the cross-road is said to be the spot where Sir Walter Raleigh's servant emptied a stoup of beer over his master, who was smoking, in the belief that he was on fire.

It possesses a stoup and a rather poor piscina.

Note (1) the stoup near S. door; (2) the piscina in the chancel; (3) the squint in the S. pier of the chancel; (4) the Jacobean pulpit (dated 1625).

Note (1) stoup in S. porch; (2) piscina in S. chapel; (3) fine black oak pulpit.

Its church retains its stoup, piscina, and ancient font, and there is some 15th cent.

The S. porch has niches for images and a stoup; there are piscinas in the chancel and the N. transept, and in the same transept the effigy of a crusader, believed to be one Guy Bryan.

The S. porch has a fine groined roof, with niches and holy-water stoup.

In this aisle is a holy-water stoup.

Note besides, (1) the stoup; (2) effigy of a lady; (3) brasses of Robert Walsh (d. 1427) and his wife (the Walshes owned the manor in the 14th and 15th cents.); (4) font (E.E.); (5) Jacobean pulpit.

The latter contains (1) a pillar stoup in the porch; (2) a Norm, font; (3) some old oak benches; (4) fine granite altar slab, found buried for safety's sake; (5) two small corbels in the chancel, presumably for supporting a Lenten veil (cp. Orchardleigh); (6) piscinas in chancel and S. aisle.

Its church has unusually prominent buttresses to the tower, and preserves (1) remains of stoup in S. porch; (2) piscinas in S. nave wall and chancel; (3) aumbry; (4) poppy heads to seats.

Note (1) E.E. lancets to sanctuary; (2) piscinas in sanctuary and S. aisle; (3) occasional "Devonshire" capitals to pillars; (4) rood-loft stair, as at Porlock; (5) faces on bosses of roof (cp. Selworthy); (6) fragment of stoup in porch.

The church has been rebuilt, but preserves its Norman font (with cable moulding), and a holy-water stoup (within the S. door).

Note (1) stoup in S. porch; (2) piscinas; (3) mural tablet in chancel to the memory of William Kinglake, a physician (d. 1660), with its curious inscription.

At the W. door there is a fine stoup.

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