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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

"All you fellows think about is eating and drinking, and then smoking and swopping lies."

From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard

“Or I don’t mind swopping Wally Wheatfield for him; if you really—” Ranger laughed.

From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Reed, Talbot Baines

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