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He was content to eat the leavings, the big tough carrots and the little ropy ones, rather than to venture a short distance farther on to where the carrots were as yet untouched.

Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said, "It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener hanging from the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next minute with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this is no exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, as he handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and looking at it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?"

The pair met at the Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert in Hyde Park last summer, and Quincy was very taken with Amy - despite her ropy performance.

The cover of Enter Sandman was ropy but Take On Me saved the night.

A recent string of ropy performances means Wanderers are doomed to spend next season back in the First Division.

Fitness levels in the old days can't have been too ropy can they?

Most of them are pretty ropy looking but one isn't and we've had a few chats.

RAFAEL BENITEZ last night raged a the ropy referee who wrecked Liverpool's dream of becoming world champions in Japan.

TV chefs Brian Turner and Peter McCoy are being brought into the battle to improve the sometimes ropy quality of the food at the country's racecourses.

Even by the notoriously ropy standards of football ground sausage rolls these were rough.

It's probably something to do with the fact she can wear a pair of dodgy pink trainers and some ropy spray-on jeans but still look like the height of cool.