swopping
Example Sentences
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That "swopping" bird, still justly respected, was thought, for many ages, to linger in the college of which he is the protector.
From Oxford by Lang, Andrew
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
He passed away most of his time on board in swopping watch lies with the other passengers and good-naturedly spoiling their Waterburys.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
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 Reid, Mayne
But now all hope of recovering him alive is lost, and it is reserved for the excavator of the future to marvel over the fossil bones of the "swopping, swopping mallard."
From Oxford by Lang, Andrew
