“He who pronounced Brot and Kase for Bread and Cheese had his head lopt off,” stated a chronicle of the events. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)
There between the thinning uprights at the margin straggle tangled oak and flayed sheeny beech-bole, and fragile birch whose silvery queenery is draggled and ungraced and June shoots lopt and fresh stalks bled runs the Jerry trench. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
In all human institutions a smaller evil is allowed to procure a greater good; as in politics, a province may be given away to secure a kingdom; in medicine, a limb may be lopt off, to preserve the body. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Style, and withal a Wit and Invention so overflowing, that the luxuriant Branches thereof were frequently thought convenient to be lopt off by Mr. _Beaumont_; which two joyned together, like _Castor_ and _Pollux_, (most happy when in conjunction) raised the _English_ to equal the _Athenian_ and _Roman_ Theaters; _Beaumont_ bringing the ❋ William Winstanley (N/A)
In the middle of the fort stands a tree with its branches lopt off within six or eight inches of the trunk, and this serves for a watch-tower. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
I should then hear the account of the barbarities that have rent the bosom of France patiently, and bless the firm hand that lopt off the rotten limbs. ❋ Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1895)
When the Vandals invaded the land he had advanced to meet them with a procession of singers and got an ugly sword cut, which lopt off a piece of his head. ❋ Unknown (1886)
While he went ahead with the axe, and lopt off the smallest twigs of the flat-leaved cedar, the arbor-vitae of the gardens, we gathered them up, and returned with them to the boat, until it was loaded. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Nor stretch'd, nor lopt of its now fair proportions, ❋ Unknown (1853)
Then swayed her supple form as sway * The lances lopt from limber tree; ❋ Anonymous (1855)
That there is nothinge nowe eft in 4 of those 6 coppices for wch I have bargained but old beaches, heretofore topt and lopt, whereof many of them nowe are scarce worth the cuttinge out to any man but myselfe, in respect of my iron workes beinge soe nere to them. ❋ Unknown (1846)
But now all the labour and expense of a man's former education, all the hopes and usefulness of his remaining years, the expectations of his friends, and perhaps the supports of a family, are lopt off at a blow, extinguished in a moment, with an overplus of misery from the sadness of the occasion. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
Then might you have seen cords broken, and stakes plucked up as the Christians came to the tents; my Cid's people drove King Bucar's through their camp, and many an arm with its sleeve-mail was lopt off, and many a head with its helmet fell to the ground; and horses ran about on all sides without riders. ❋ Various (1808)
We have endeavoured to amend the uncouth and abrupt style of Purchas, but it was impossible to clear up his obscurities; and in many instances we have abbreviated or lopt off redundancies and unimportant particulars. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
– I returned, the verdure was nipt by the east wind; the branches were lopt away by the ax; the worm had made its way into the trunk, and the heart thereof was decayed; it mouldered away, and fell to the ground. ❋ Anna Letitia (1781)
Utility, to the ignoble ends of their own avarice; luxury or ambition; so long will the people prefer present Self-interest to remote benefits arising from national prosperity; and so long will corrupt ministers employ this popular venality to their own private advantage; and how many soever are lopt off, ❋ 1704-1787 (1761)
In the poem [Fj]ölsvinnsmál, a [stanza] mentions Loki (as Lopt) in association with [runes]. ❋ Lopt_unbound (2011)
God, [Lindsey] is such a [lopt], someone should just [smack] her. ❋ Steck And Steen (2009)
wow, [the guy] was LOPT last night. He [probaly] got [banged]. ❋ Docj707 (2010)
Oi [Sara] [hows] the LOPT going? I heard it was [chronic] these days. ❋ Tidy Mctiderson (2009)
