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

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

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.

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)

"If you chaps have finished swopping snake yarns," said Jim, turning in his saddle, "there's Anglers' Bend."

From A Little Bush Maid by Bruce, Mary Grant