looping

Example Sentences

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He told me that he spent hours turning the stone from one side to the next, photographing, louping, microscoping.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2016

But gamekeepers may cull the animals in an effort to protect red grouse from the tick-borne louping ill virus.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2015

The deil tak their louping hearts into his hand for silly gawkies; if they werena a' red-wood about lads, they wadna heed me a whistle.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

I just keepit four resurrectioners louping ower the wall.”

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin

He was at his desk at the hour, and the woman, no doubt eager for the phenomenon of the "louping ee," was as true as the time itself.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander