Oxygen is indispensable for the life of the tissues, and its supply is dependent upon the integrity of the three organs mentioned, which have been called the tripos of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disease and Its Causes] Reference

II of the mathematical tripos in May 1945, just as the European war was ending.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Pople - Autobiography] Reference

Though he did not compete in the mathematical tripos, he acquired a great reputation at the university.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

The knife and the cane, menacing each other, were like tripos and short sword in a gladiatorial combat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender is the Night] Reference

London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was 4th wrangler and gained a first-class in the classical tripos in 1848.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Milton Gloaming, who achieved perfect tripos at Cambridge ten years ago, abandons his shorthand to rise and go shut the gas off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Quaker-affiliated institutions - he took honors in the history tripos in 1910 and in the economics tripos in 1912 at King's College.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Noel-Baker - Biography] Reference

Shih-yin, he promptly started on the 16th day for the capital, and at the triennial great tripos, his wishes were gratified to the full.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1839, and graduated B.A. in 1843, being seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Roger's away at Cambridge too -- examination for the mathematical tripos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

HIPPANTHIGH: I was third in the classical tripos at Cambridge, Mr. Sladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays of Near & Far] Reference

Feb. with considerable credit, and was in the list of honours on the first tripos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ...] Reference

"I'm an Oxford man," answered the 'Windy Duke,'"classical tripos -- if you know what that means.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U.S. Census] Reference

They had not chosen to tell Molly that Osborne's name had only appeared very low down in the mathematical tripos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

The definition of "tripos" is home-made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

2008, Certara unites tripos (www. tripos.com) and Pharsight Corporation (www. pharsight.com).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

It is tempting to view McCain’s tripos as idiosyncratic — a product of his own life experience and particular interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

He fell against a tripos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iphigenia in Tauris] Reference

Ceratium tripos Ehr.Fig. 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference

Or the tripos, his tower bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Here is the tripos, out of which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

He mounts the tripos in a minute's space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference

And sacred tripos, did the priestess give.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference

I have sent away my tripos papers to-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

And from the tripos rush'd a bellowing sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

Cambridge; and I don't know what a tripos is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays of Near & Far] Reference

And from the tripos rush’d a bellowing sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Book of the Aeneis] Reference

Come down from off the tripos, and speak plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

I had my tripos, my D80 and my remote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digitally Diane] Reference

Thus this tripos is.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. On the Capital Difficulty of Verse] Reference

And from the tripos rush’d a bellowing sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The AEneid] Reference

278 treasurer, 145 treat ’em rough, 181 tripos, 121 tripper, 97, 114 triscut, 195.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference