swopping

Example Sentences

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The men outside Hegarty's, smoking and swopping yarns with the Schoolmaster, watched him go.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Speaking about it afterwards to a passel of boys over in the swopping ring, he said the experience, while dissapinting at the time, was worth a right smart to him subsequent.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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 Reid, Mayne

Through that day and until midday of the next, lively crowds followed every movement of the "dandy feller," swopping opinions as to his charm, and his smile, his youthfulness and his shyness.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

“Hannibal.”—Giving presents, with the hope of receiving presents in return, takes away awl the cream ov giving, or receiving, it is like swopping skim-milk, for milk that has bin skimd.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.