Do we say troop or troupe

troop 1360 occurrences

On the 3rd of September he reached Allahabad, and here left his troop under the command of M. le Comte de Carryon, whilst he went on to Lucknow, the capital of Oudh.

Forth with its light and minstrelsy A lordly troop came speeding by, And joyed to see each cresset sphere So gloriously burn.

Straight hitherward came troop and star; Like some celestial bird afar Into Earth's night the cohort leapt With beauteous wings outspread.

He entered the city, with what an escort, or rather with what a troop! when on the right hand and on the left, amid the groans of the Roman people, he was threatening the owners of property, taking notes of the houses, and openly promising to divide the city among his followers.

Perhaps with faces that bespoke deep grief A troop of farmers there had come to tell To their sport-loving prince the havoc wrought Upon their toiling cattle by wild beasts That nightly from their hill abodes came down To feast on them.

(Winding among the CHORUS and drawing them forth to dance) Round this gay troop I flee With impulse light.

CHORUS (entering quickly one by one) Us he passed with glance scorn-laden; Hastily still onward springing, Bearing now the wildest maiden Of our troop, he draweth nigh.

Besides, the troop are never so well affected when you are away; there are quarrels and divisions.

3 You know how, sometimes, one wakes suddenly in the night with an extraordinary access of clearness of vision, so that a dozen small things which have occurred during the day and passed without making much apparent impression on one's mind stand out sharp and defined in a row, like a troop of soldiers with fixed bayonets all pointing in one direction.

We waited a moment to see others, but they seemed to be satisfied;and we were satisfied,with prospect of a swarm bursting out on us from the town; so, sinking spurs into our weary animals, we made good pace back to the camp,not without an alarm that a troop of well-mounted lancers was behind us.

The delay may have come near being fatal to us, for we heard afterwards that we had been gone but a little while, when a troop of the enemy's horse rode into the place, reconnoitred, and returned in the direction in which they came.

A yell of wonder rose from Hervey and his charging troop.

You've always been so unique as a trifler that one rather hates to see you swallowed up in the troop of serious-minded young women.

However, by dint of entreaties whispered through key-holes and persuasions cooed under window-shutters, I charmed most of them open again and got my troop under cover, with the exception of one section.

" Mr. FRANCIS FOSTER, of Troop co. Georgia, advertises in the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer of June 22, 1837"My negro woman Patsey, has a stoop in her walking, occasioned by a severe burn on her abdomen.

On my landing, I was received by the Vice-consul (an opulent Jew, and a native of Barbary), accompanied by the commanding officer and his troop.

Had it been night I might have seen ghostly men with crossbows issuing from the gateway, but it being broad daylight, I was met by a troop of young pigs followed by a little hump-backed woman who addressed her youthful swine in the language of the troubadours.

Go, go back, love; troop!" Emily felt deeply the trick that was played upon her.

The gallant troop acquired considerable renown, and harassed the enemy much, especially by cutting off his communications.

He was here occupied, at the first moment, with the assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when he perceived a troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him.

Wal. Ay, catch his fever, Sir, and learn to take An indigestion for a troop of angels.

His neighbor, a new recruit, still wears the national dress of his order, which has not yet been tattered and torn from him by long service; and he is the envy of the motley troop.

So, to carry out, with another comparison, my remark about the layers of thought, we may consider the mind, as it moves among thoughts or events, like a circus-rider whirling round with a great troop of horses.

The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all!

So troops is sometimes irregularly, if not improperly, put for soldiers, as if a soldier were a troop; as, "While those gallant troops, by whom every hazardous, every laborious service is performed, are left to perish.

troupe 129 occurrences

A DUEL WITH CHIEF YELLOW HAND SCOUTING ON A STEAMBOAT CLOSE QUARTERS ONE OF THE TROUPE Contents CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD.

The last troupe, dressed in long yellow shirts and loose yellow turbans, represent Swami Narayan priests and pass in silence before the glittering simulacrum of the Martyr's tomb.

By some means or other the troupe got separated and one of the brothers got stalled on Pig's Eye bar.

"Dixie" at once became very popular, and was soon on the program of every minstrel troupe in the country.

Dan Emmet devoted his whole life to minstrelsy and he organized the first traveling minstrel troupe in the United States, starting from some point in Ohio in 1843.

Robbers always have a troupe of women.

Women oftener than men shared litters with friends; then the troupe of attendants was doubled; slaves were in droves, flocks, hordes around the building, making a motley sight of it in their liveries, which were adaptations of the every-day costumes of almost all the countries of the known world.

Or if he must be outwardly great, he can but turn the other end of the glass, and make his stately manor a low and straight cottage, and in all his costly furniture he can see not richness but use; he can see dross in the best metal and earth through the best clothes, and in all his troupe he can see himself his own servant.

Les hommes de troupe.

Lish Kelly's troupe was a large one, consisting of five men and one woman flyer, the wife of Carlos Le Roy, a Cuban aviator.

Genofeva, sickly and melancholy, dragged herself about with the troupe until Carl Maria was ten years old, when her health gave way, and the travel was discontinued.

The two sang duets, or Caroline recited poems, while Carl improvised accompaniments; excursions to the fields, and water parties, and hilarious reunions of the opera-troupe kept life busy.

" Jack agreed, and they walked up to the men in front just as the muleteer came galloping up with his troupe.

"I don't know if he will turn out the hero of the drama I am in search of, but, anyhow, I will number him twelve in my traveling troupe.

" "To appear at Shanghai in the French troupe at the residency as" "You know all that, then?" "A reporter!

We say for no cause, as it is obvious that Mr. Kilburn, as the agent of the troupe, could have said nothing against Miss Saville which an outsider, not to say a foreigner like Mr. Beauvoir, had any call to resent.

We were under contract with South then, who provided the rest of the troupe, three or four posture-girls, Stradi the pianist, and a Madame Somebody, who gave readings and sang.

With the assistance of various members of the family and the village carpenter, he made a troupe of marionettes and a small theatre for them to act in.

Into this merry throng came Anne Oldfield during that never-to-be-forgotten summernot, however, as an equal, but as an humble player of the troupe from Drury Lane.

The writer has himself heard the manipulator of a marionette troupe (whose wife, by-the-way, posed in a curio hall as a "Babylonian Princess") speak of Sir Henry Irving as "a brother professional.

CHARITÉ BIEN ORDONNÉE COMMENCE PAR SOI-MÊME Un célèbre prestidigitateur et sa troupe donnant des séances dans une petite ville se trouvaient par suite de mauvaises recettes réduits à la pile nécessité.

la troupe donnait-elle des séances?Les recettes étaient-elles moins abondantes que d'ordinaire?À qui le directeur s'est-il présenté?Qu'est-ce qu'il proposa de faire?À quelles conditions voulait-il donner une séance?A-t-on accepté la proposition?La recette a-t-elle été bonne?Qui est venu trouver le prestidigitateur le lendemain?Quelle conversation a eu lieu?

Where was my little troupe?

The story of the trial which so soon followed her arrival has too enduring a place in our history to call for a detailed descriptionthe trial in which all the weight of the Crown and the testimony of a small army of suborned witnesses"a troupe of comedians in the pay of malevolence," to quote Broughamwere arrayed against her; and in which she had so doughty a champion in Brougham, and such solace and support in the sympathy of all England.

He made of Harlequin a clever and witty personage, instead of a stupid lout, and this change was accepted by the writers of plays for that particular troupe.

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