So as they could do a quick getaway when such contingencies came loping along, they used to make tunnels, but I guess if these fellers that built this place tunneled they did it some other part.
Small wonder was it that he cried out in anguish, for the side of the hill down which the old mule was loping was as steep as the side of a house, and plentifully bestrewn with rocks, inter-grown with rough scraggly brush.
It was a notable day when the West Australian outrider, loping from west to east, met the pioneer rabbit loping from east to west.
How-do," called the driver with a squirt of tobacco over the front wheel at a rancher loping across the trail.
A minute later, however, it sprang into life as Captain Baldwin led his men onto the field through the same gate at a loping run.
March came loping down from the bridge, slackened pace, and swept with his frowning glance the meadows on the left.
He twitched the reins, turned his spurred heels against his horse and went loping over the grassland to meet the person who drove in such haste; and the probability that he was meeting trouble halfway only sent him the more eagerly forward.
The Old Man leaned sidewise and called back to the two loping after him in the obscuring dust-cloud he left behind.
Big Medicine came up over the hill a hundred feet or so from them; goggled a minute at the bold trespass and came loping across the intervening space.
The Kid was so sleepy, and so tired that he almost fell out of the saddle once when Silver, who had been loping easily across a fairly level stretch of ground, slowed abruptly to negotiate a washout crossing.
Late that afternoon the guard caught sight of a horseman loping rapidly up the valley and heading for the bridge across the Laramie.
But I was alone in the square with the shrill cries--closer now, raising echoes from the enclosing walls--and the loping of many feet down one of the dirty streets.
And behind him the loping mob yelled and howled and came pouring over half the square.
I heard the shrill cries, the pad-padding of feet in strides just a little too long and loping to be human, raising echoes all down the dark and dusty streets leading up to the main square.
Motioning impatiently for the Tuscarora to lead the way, she glided after him with a rapidity that equalled his own loping movement.
Mike followed his companion, growling out his discontent, and watching the form of the Indian, as the latter still went loping over the flat, having passed the captain, with a message to the barns.
For the first time, in more than two years, the Tuscarora was seen approaching the house, on the long, loping trot that he affected when he wished to seem busy, or honestly earning his money.
Jim lay awake and watched until the day guard came loping in with Buck.
He gripped my hand, and wentloping away into the night.
He caught a flashing smile and then she was in the saddle, loping her pony down the street toward the station.
Therefore Hollis was not surprised when in the afternoon he saw Ace loping his pony down the Coyote trail toward the Hazelton cabin.
He walked over to the pony, unhitched it, and with a vicious slap on the flank sent it loping down the trail toward the river.
Had he looked up he might have noticed a horseman lopingdown a cross trail with the evident intention of heading off the wagon.
Out in the great Range Country all this time the United Farmers were lickety-loping along the trail of difficulties that carried their own special brand.
Partridge took toloping across the prairie on a "Shag" pony.
Not a bird peeped or stirred, except to glare at a big white rabbit who came loping easily down the hill from the wood, and went noiselessly under the veranda.
All right," said Drunkard, and we both went loping down the driveway to the road.
After two miles of galloping at the rate of nearly twenty miles an hour, Finn steadied down to a fast loping gait, which would have kept him abreast of any other road vehicle than a motor-car, and maintained this for quite a long while.
He made a motion of urging his horse forward, then, checking it abruptly, he wheeled about, loping away in his original direction.
The thud of hoof-beats suddenly fell upon their ears and, turning, they beheld Gully on his gray horse loping past them, about twenty yards distant.
This loping trot was kept up for fully two hours, at the end of which time Tom was certain that he was approaching the river again.
He had taken scarcely a dozen steps when he struck into a long, loping trot, not particularly rapid in itself, but of such a character that it could be kept for hours at a stretch.
Suspecting I was too near the singer, I moved away cautiously, and stood in a lane beside the wood, where a loping hare regarded me a few paces away.
Paul stupidly watched him go, saw him reach the turning by the meat-slave stockade and break into a loping run.
Paul ran, Wright loping beside him, hearing the crash of their friends' weapons.
The horse-wrangler saw him coming and cameloping up to meet him.
He did not lend Happy Jack his gun, and for that reason--perhaps--Jakie remained alive and unpunctured until the first of the riders came loping in to camp.
But when they went to bed, the Happy Family had settled unanimously upon the theory that Andy had ridden to Dry Lake, and would come loping serenely down the trail next day.
Maybe it was five minutes I watched 'em: number one loping along like there wasn't nothing urgent and he was just merely going somewhere and taking his time for it, and number two quirting and spurring like seconds was diamonds.
No hope for the defenceless thing lay there, still less in the wood across which it presently cameloping with fateful laboured movement.
Their sharp yaps fell like a death-knell on the ears of the hare, who, believing the pursuit was at an end, was loping leisurely along the bank of the stream.
Loping over the grass and threading her way among the poplar saplings, Colina proceeded farther than she had ever been in this direction since summer set in.
Presently the leader came loping back, and the whole body rode around Watusk and Ambrose in a vast circle.
It might, of course, be only a silly long-ears loping under cover parallel to the man, looking with rabbit curiosity at this strange newcomer to the swamp home of the animal world.
At Trabuco Creek the vigilantes passed an Indian boy loping easily along the valley road.
It is true, the horses are in better condition this year," conceded the major-domo as they watched the horses loping along the river side.
Abner watched him swing away down the hill, with his loose-jointed, loping stride.
He went on ahead with a long, loping gait, very different from the tramp's habitual shuffle.
They decided that it would be impossible to dry their clothes, and pushed on through the night, Mick loping ahead like some drowned bird and Abner stolidly following.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
