Ripley

[ rip-lee ]

/ ˈrɪp li /

George,1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.

Example sentences from the Web for ripley

The scene, Ripley observes, is “like boxers entering a ring for a fight.”

Why the World Is Smarter Than Us |Dana Goldstein |August 9, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
At a Finnish school, Ripley interviews a teacher who articulates this way of thinking.

Why the World Is Smarter Than Us |Dana Goldstein |August 9, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The difference with Ripley was that she had won and survived.

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“She ended up becoming a part of Ripley,” said Capt. Stibral.

An Unspeakable Crime |Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |December 28, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

Behind the designer shades and manipulation, Parker was less Talented Mr. Ripley and more Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Partying All the Way to Jail |Peter Davis |December 21, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
But when he found the audacity to look again at Ripley he saw the latter was not at all concerned with the situation.

Wounds in the rain |Stephen Crane
That beautifullest little flower vase of thine stands on Mr. Ripley's study table, at which I am now writing.

Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 of 2 |Nathaniel Hawthorne
When, therefore, he said these words to Mrs. Ripley, that woman's heart beat faster.

The Daughter of the Chieftain |Edward S. Ellis
Some underhand work was done, and Ripley, so he said, restrained old Tom from putting a bullet into a certain miscreant.

The Land of Nome |Lanier McKee
He held the Ripley family in too high regard to offend them openly; but Omas was set in his ways.

The Daughter of the Chieftain |Edward S. Ellis

Ripley

/ (ˈrɪplɪ) /

George . 1802–80, US social reformer and transcendentalist: founder of the Brook Farm experiment in communal living in Massachusetts (1841)