"Copped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about our trailin', bo," insisted Byrne, "an' whether Japs are bean collectors or not here's where de ginks dat copped de doll hiked fer, an if dey ain't dere now it's because dey went t'rough an' ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... afraid you were going to pinch them all. I'll tell you. It was easy. I piped the Magpie off to a chap named Kenleigh having the bonds up there in his rooms in an apartment house. I couldn't crack Kenleigh's safe myself, but it was nuts for the Magpie—see? He cracked the safe. I was with him, and I copped that near-diamond pin of his, and left it there so there wouldn't be any guessing as to who pulled off the job, and then we beat it back to his place to divide—and I beaned him. I wasn't looking into any gun then, and handing over fifty thousand—and besides, with the ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... hen. Edwin's nose was like a bone, And his teeth were not his own; Neither, I regret to tell, Did they fit him very well. It was not his fault, no doubt, That they tried to tumble out, And in fact he seldom dropped them, For he almost always copped them Just as they became ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various
... with hands invitingly outstretched. "Come along, Pixie! We shan't eat you, and I'll take you home on my shoulder afterwards and see you don't get copped." ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... I only copped out me job here last mont'; but seems as if his whiskers did say dere was somethin' doin'." And just then Mr. ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer |
