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Examples

  • Hannibal's historic downtown is compact and walkable but it's fun to climb aboard Glen Yoder's horse-drawn Mark Twain Clopper (usually parked near the boyhood home) for a guided tour. $5 adults; $2.50 children.

    Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again 2010

  • The 2,700-square-foot wood-framed house with detached, electric-car-ready garage will sit on a small hill on the north end of the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, near Clopper and Quince Orchard roads.

    'Net zero' house to be built in Maryland should produce as much energy as it uses 2011

  • In fact, according to a study of the subset of English in the Hoosier Mental Lexicon (Clopper 2002), 11% of the multisyllabic words had their primary stress on the final syllable.

    2009 May « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • The 2,700-square-foot wood-framed house with detached, electric-car-ready garage will sit on a small hill on the north end of the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, near Clopper and Quince Orchard roads.

    'Net zero' house to be built in Maryland should produce as much energy as it uses 2011

  • The 2,700-square-foot wood-framed house with detached, electric-car-ready garage will sit on a small hill on the north end of the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, near Clopper and Quince Orchard roads.

    'Net zero' house to be built in Maryland should produce as much energy as it uses 2011

  • In fact, according to a study of the subset of English in the Hoosier Mental Lexicon (Clopper 2002), 11% of the multisyllabic words had their primary stress on the final syllable.

    What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • As I had received a number of attentions from Clopper, I determined to invite him to dinner; which I could do without any sacrifice of my principle upon this point: for the fact is, Dobble lived at an inn, and as he sent all his bills to his father, I made no scruple to use his table.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Clopper, I did not condescend to notice his remark but in order to get rid of the troublesome society of these low blackguards, I determined to gratify an inclination I had long entertained, and make a little tour.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Clopper confided to the company his wish that I should marry his sister, and vowed that he thought me the best fellow in

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Clopper, was in a line regiment, and helped me as much as ever he could: he swore I was such a brave fellow.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

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