Mr. Dyer, in his _Church Lore Gleanings_, mentions the "louping," or ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)
Alan, however (overpassing my small savings), has the world to win; and louping and laughing, as you and he were wont to do, would soon make the powder flee out of his wig, and the pence out of his pocket. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And the leal men of Lothian, are louping on their horse; ❋ Unknown (2008)
He looked so much like a tramp that Carlitos gave him the nickname of Old Vizcacha * -- but his dedication was not without its * ... a land-louping scapegrace, hung with rags, That lived like a leech in the fens and quags, A gully-raking veteran scamp, Bad-biled as a mangy boar. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
My abiding interest in infectious disease caused me to focus on the tickborne flavivirus, louping-ill virus, which was then regarded as problematic because of concerns about the safety of the vaccine, first developed at the Moredun many years previously. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Now, rabbit shooting in the winter, with dogs to hunt the bunnies through brushwood, furze, or bracken, so that snap-shots are offered as they dart across open places, is very good fun; but the only way Saurin had of getting at them at this season was by lying in wait in the evening outside the woods and shooting them when they came louping cautiously out. ❋ Lewis Hough (N/A)
"Ay," said he, "there will be mackerel there," and he pointed to the sea, all a-louping with the fish, and then he unravelled his knots, and smoothed the strands with hands brown as a bark sail, and hard-looking as an oak. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
After all, it was only Isaac, the bethrel, who, when we let him in, said that he had just keppit four ressurrectioners louping over the wall. ❋ Various (1909)
Now, traveling three miles to the soldiers 'one, scampering in wide circles over the fields, swimming burns, scrambling under hedges, chasing whaups into piping cries, barking and louping in pure exuberance of spirits, many eyes looked upon him admiringly, and discontented mouths turned upward at the corners. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
To the mile they ran, Bobby went five, scampering in wide circles and barking and louping at butterflies and whaups. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
Jock Howden died o 'the very same disorder Elshie pretended to cure him of, about the fa' o 'the leaf; and though he helped Lambside's cow weel out o' the moor-ill, yet the louping-ill's been sairer amang his sheep than ony season before. ❋ Unknown (1898)
He had not seen them the night before, but now it was all I could do to keep my face as I watched him; for instead of our homely Scottish nod, he bent up his back like a louping trout, and slid his foot, and clapped his hand over his heart in the queerest way. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
` ` I think sae too; and they wad do weel, and deserve weal baith o 'the state and o' humanity, that wad save three or four honest Hieland gentlemen frae louping heads ower heels into destruction, wi 'a' their puir sackless followers, just because ❋ Unknown (1887)
The old gentleman, he said, went louping over wet spots and great stones, and scraffling over crags and screes, till you would have thought he was some kin to a Herdwick sheep. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
After having heard Moncrieff speaking so much about cutting coats according to cloth and looking before 'louping,' and all the rest of it, we were hardly prepared to hear him on the present occasion say boldly, ❋ Gordon Stables (1875)
Yes, indeed, it was a wise precaution, for even now, while the men were thus hard at work and others were thus discussing their actions, far back on the trail hungry and cruel enemies have caught the rich scent of the beaver, and with long, louping strides are rapidly drawing near. ❋ Egerton R. Young (1874)
He knows that he could put on a desperate spurt and get far ahead, but would they not, with that long, steady louping of theirs, gradually creep up again, and, finding him almost exhausted, make a desperate spurt, and thus run him down? ❋ Egerton R. Young (1874)
At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
He's done wi 'Paoli -- he's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)
He's done wi 'Paoli; he's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a Corsican; and whose tail do you think he has pinn'd himself to now, mon? ❋ Irving, Washington (1849)
