swopping
Example Sentences
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“Or I don’t mind swopping Wally Wheatfield for him; if you really—” Ranger laughed.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed
And while foreign affairs were being admirably conducted by Lord Lansdowne, they were critical enough to make it dangerous to contemplate a "swopping of horses."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
We can get that in Swampville by swopping skins for it, or now an’ then some deer-meat.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
They were content with having seen "the cute little feller" as some of them called him, and made the most of that experience by listening to, and swopping anecdotes about, him.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
The canvas-backed duck has been praised as highly as the “swopping, swopping mallard” of a comfortable college in Oxford.
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
