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THORPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)
Synonyms:
James Francis Thorpe; Jim Thorpe; Thorpe
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)
Context examples:
I’ll begin at the time of my marriage last year, but I want to say first of all that, though I’m not a rich man, my people have been at Riding Thorpe for a matter of five centuries, and there is no better known family in the County of Norfolk.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Thorpe was a widow, and not a very rich one; she was a good-humoured, well-meaning woman, and a very indulgent mother.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She said the highest things in your praise that could possibly be; and the praise of such a girl as Miss Thorpe even you, Catherine, taking her hand with affection, may be proud of.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I need not ask you whether you are happy here, my dear Catherine; with such a companion and friend as Isabella Thorpe, it would be impossible for you to be otherwise; and the Allens, I am sure, are very kind to you?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
John Thorpe, who in the meantime had been giving orders about the horses, soon joined them, and from him she directly received the amends which were her due; for while he slightly and carelessly touched the hand of Isabella, on her he bestowed a whole scrape and half a short bow.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Three and twenty!” cried Thorpe.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I happened just then to be looking out for some light thing of the kind, though I had pretty well determined on a curricle too; but I chanced to meet him on Magdalen Bridge, as he was driving into Oxford, last term: 'Ah! Thorpe,' said he, 'do you happen to want such a little thing as this? It is a capital one of the kind, but I am cursed tired of it.' 'Oh! D—,' said I; 'I am your man; what do you ask?'
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They were changed into, How glad I am we have met with Mrs. Thorpe! and she was as eager in promoting the intercourse of the two families, as her young charge and Isabella themselves could be; never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
These powers received due admiration from Catherine, to whom they were entirely new; and the respect which they naturally inspired might have been too great for familiarity, had not the easy gaiety of Miss Thorpe's manners, and her frequent expressions of delight on this acquaintance with her, softened down every feeling of awe, and left nothing but tender affection.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Catherine then ran directly upstairs, and watched Miss Thorpe's progress down the street from the drawing-room window; admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress; and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procured her such a friend.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
