Most of them were on horseback, but a number loped along on foot, keeping up with the animals.
He loped down the trail to the river level very much in a hurry.
As Lennon loped his pony into the ravine the trader swore blasphemously and swung out of his saddle to scramble up the slide.
The two had loped along under the precipices on the northwest side of the valley and were already near Hell Cañon, at the upper end.
With her feet uncramped and easy in her relaced boots, she sprang into the saddle and loped back up the trail.
He was being hoisted up the cliff when Lennon loped after Slade down-trail around a sharp bend in the cañon.
Slade hailed the tenderfoot with bluff cordiality when the mounted party loped up the slope to him.
Carmena jumped her pony across the intake canal and loped ahead toward the cliff house.
The two Indians wheeled their ponies and loped after the others.
Before Lennon could inquire the meaning of this, she sprang upon the pony and loped along the cliff foot toward the cliff ruins.
Hiram loped on, and now reached a strip of the right-of-way where camps were few and far between.
Oliver loped Poche to an obscure deer path that led down to the river, and as swiftly as possible began negotiating it.
Curious eyes met them, old men stopped in their tracks and leaned on their canes to watch, and folks came to windows and doors as they loped through the village.
I might have walked ahead, though, and opened the gate for you if you hadn't loped off.
But ever when Bob turned and hoped A limp remains to find, A red-eyed lion, belly roped But healthy, loped behind.
I loped among the wildest band Of saddle-hatin' winners-- Gay colts that never felt a brand And scarred old outlaw sinners.
And then an hour later he heard a snort from a thick copse and the crash of an unseen body in flight through the brush, and he loped after its tracks.
The pony had negotiated the ridge; had slowly loped down its slope to a comparatively low and level stretch of country, and was traveling steadily forward, when Hollis noticed a change in the atmosphere.
Just before Hollis disappeared down the slope of the ridge he turned and waved a hand to Norton, and the latter, with a grim, admiring smile, wheeled his pony and loped it over the back trail.
Hope in surprise, as a horse loped down the creek bank and on through the brush trail.
Her horse loped neck to neck with the soft-voiced twin's.
That evening, while the Master and his folk were dining at Nuthill, Finn arose from a nap in the hall and, strolling out through the garden, loped easily away across the shoulder of Down betwixt Shaws and Nuthill to visit Desdemona.
Jan, the first dog to be loosed, took one long, ardent sniff at the trail before him and then loped on ahead with never a backward glance for master or team-mates.
He gestured upward jauntily, shook himself, andloped forward into the throat of the chimney.
It looked at them steadily for a moment, its ears alert, then turned and loped away down the slope.
As he loped away the sound of her warm, clear laughter floated after him.
His horse's hoofs were presently flinging dirt toward the Twin Star as he loped up to the hills.
He loped along the winding trail through the coulee's bottom and climbed the hill beyond.
While he loped forward, silenced for the moment, he was conscious of a swift, keen thankfulness that Pink had at the last minute decided to stay in camp that night instead of accompanying Andy to One Man.
I loped in town, and rid 'Bout two hours more to find him, but I kussed him when I did!
He tucked the letter into his shirt, mounted his waiting pony and loped down the canyon.
The Mexican mounted a pony andloped ahead of the handsome span of fast trotters, while Tatters yelped before them, dashing away from the road into the brush to chase imaginary foes.
Katherine, knowing her husband was in one of his ugliest tempers, was sorry when she recognized the white-haired old doctor, who loped his grey pony up to the gate, smiling as he dismounted and slipped his reins over the post.
Nellie Custis, Randolph's wiry hound, loped along with flapping ears in the rear of the low-seated carriage.
For generations back her forbears had lopedwith flapping ears in the lead of a hunting pack.
But the days went by, and by-and-by we began to crawl out and lie in the seaward shadow, and sometimes under the banana tree, where the little black monkey loped around melancholy.
The little black monkey dropped from his tree and loped after the keeper, and the woods swallowed them all.
He sprang down into the road again, quickly shovelled up a double handful of stones, and loped on.
Antonio gave a short, derisive laugh, dug his spurs into Nero's sides and loped away.
He was too engrossed in handling, apparently counting, something within a deep basket that hung on his arm, and his bare feet loped around over the rocks as easily as they would have carried him across the level mesa.
The brown-skinned soldiers cast many glances out of their wild eyes at them as they loped back, evidently wondering at the youth of Madero's new recruits from across the border.
Some five minutes later three youthful figures mounted on a trio of splendid specimens of horse flesh, loped easily up a trail leading from the natural basin in the hills.
A premonitory silence had settled over the valley; she heard the dull thud of hoofs behind her, regular and swift, the creaking of the saddle leather as the animal under her loped forward.
An hour later, during which he loped the black horse slowly, he again drew the animal to a halt and gazed around him, frowning, his eyes gleaming with a savage intolerance.
When they reached the ranchhouse, Harlan loped Purgatory toward one of the bunkhouses, in front of which he saw Red Linton standing.
Feeling the necessity of a private conclusion or two, he loped Polkadot into what he hoped would prove the less used path.
Pop lost five dollars on that race," Bud called back, and loped over to the crowd.
He loped along the road grown broader now and smoother.
Thereafter we loped north in the falling dusk, Barreau riding mute after his long speech, and I, perforce, following his example.
Side by side, two dim figures in the murk, we loped away.
The tongues of dozens of Indian dogs snarled their yippi-yappy language at each other, at imaginary evils and at the resounding clatter of hoofs as her pony loped along through the sage-covered mesa which skirted the river bank.
The spurs jingled and his pony loped off toward the valley.
Deciding that there was nothing good to eat in that vicinity and that the man was carrying out a fell plot for the death of coyotes, it backed away out of sight and loped on to other hunting grounds.
Some time after the two punchers had quitted the scene of their trap, several Apaches loped up, read the story of the tragedy at a glance, and galloped on in pursuit.
At ten o'clock that night eight figures loped westward along the southern fence and three hours later dismounted near the first corral of the 4X ranch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
