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

But now all hope of recovering him alive is lost, and it is reserved for the excavator of the future to marvel over the fossil bones of the "swopping, swopping mallard."

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

I don’t kno az the pollywogg gains ennything by swopping himself oph for a frog, unless it iz experience, but i never hav bin able to diskover much ov enny happiness in experience.

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

"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

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 Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)