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Another roup on the same ground asked for 20%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leeby would have considered it almost wicked to talk of anything except Jamie now, but Hendry cried out comments on the tatties, yesterday's roup, the fall in jute, to everybody he encountered.
From A Window in Thrums by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
After the roup, that is the sale, of his crop was over, Burns, in one of his letters, describes the scene that took place within and without his house.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
Is it an auctioneer's, for a roup o' furniture or a sale o' stock?'
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
Ay, ay," she cried, "thump them and drive them into the shed, Giles, that they may be ready for the roup o' our plenishing and stocking.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
