Word: turpin
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...Bold Turpin vunce,on Hounslow Heath...
This here's the bold Turpin...
...Says Turpin, "You shall eat your words...
...courtesy of the road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...
Sugar Ray Robinson, who lost his world middleweight title to London's Randy Turpin after doing more touring than training, sailed from Le Havre to prepare for a return bout. To his well-wishers, he made a promise: "I will come back to France next December to rest and organize a new tour of Europe...