swopping
Example Sentences
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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 Mayne Reid
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
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
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 Andrew Lang
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
