swopping
Example Sentences
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I don't imagine that it is a bad point to dissolve upon—at any rate, there is no swopping in such a crossing.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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 horse-dealer still stuck to his old courses—coping, swopping, swearing—likely to outlive them all.
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid
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
A good newspaper, if properly conducted, could have some fun and get a good many advertisements by swopping kind words at regular catalogue prices for goods.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
