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Ripley

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Rip·ley  (rpl), George 1802-1880.
American minister, scholar, and literary critic. An important figure in the New England Transcendentalist movement, he directed the utopian community at Brook Farm, near Boston (1841-1847), and was the literary critic of the New York Tribune (1849-1880).
Ripley [ˈrɪplɪ]
n
(Biographies / Ripley, George (1802-1880) M, US, SOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformer, RELIGION: transcendentalist) George. 1802-80, US social reformer and transcendentalist: founder of the Brook Farm experiment in communal living in Massachusetts (1841)


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From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and the red glare was hidden from me.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
We taught ourselves, and may I never forget our earlier rides, through and through Richmond Park when the afternoons were shortest, upon the incomparable Ripley Road when we gave a day to it.
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After leaving you at the station I went for a charming walk through some admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket.
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