The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttig off our feet when we want shoes.
The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Hornbeam } fences by means of undergrowth { Ash } from lopping and { Elm } cutting.
This consisted in felling trees and in picking or lopping tobacco; the driver stood by them as they dug or picked, and struck those who slackened or rested, as a captain would do to his galley slaves.
The situation of the house, prejudicial to humanity, was a stimulus to vegetation, on which account an endless shearing of the heavy-armed ivy was necessary, and a continual lopping of trees and shrubs.
Near the edge of the coppice Tom Gaunt was lopping at some bushes.
On the other hand, the uprightness of the comb in the male must likewise be a sexually- limited character, otherwise it would prevent the comb of the female fromlopping over.
Now the lopping of the comb must be sexually limited in its transmission, otherwise it would prevent the comb of the male from being perfectly upright, which would be abhorrent to every fancier.
To insure success, do not amuse yourself with lopping off the branches of the evil, allowing the root to remain, do at once what is essential: feed your mind and heart with a genuine love for the true and beautiful.
Lopping off as much of the upper part of the trunk as I considered too slim and weak for my purpose, I found that by cutting off the lower part, just below the bottom branch, I should have a nice straight pole about twelve feet long.
This I did, afterward lopping off all the branches to within about six inches of the trunk--the stumps to serve as rungs or steps.
Even the elongation and lopping of the ears have influenced in a small degree the form of the whole skull.
This difference in the position and size of the two ears probably indicates that the lopping results from the great length and weight of the ear, favoured no doubt by the weakness of the muscles consequent on disuse.
The lopping forwards and downwards of the immense ears of fancy rabbits is in part due to the disuse of the muscles, and in part to the weight and length of the ears, which have been increased by selection during many generations.
If so, nothing but the destruction of the tree would have imperiled his appearance, or the lopping off of his particular branch.
To take the birds out of my life would be like lopping off so many branches from the tree: there is so much less surface of leafage to absorb the sunlight and bring my spirits in contact with the vital currents.
This difference in the position and size of the two ears probably indicates that the lopping of the ear results {108} from its great length and weight, favoured no doubt by the weakness of the muscles consequent on disuse.
For this is the fulfilling of the law; this is the upbuilding of the race; this is the lopping of the wayward branch.
On the other hand the uprightness of the comb in the male must likewise be a sexually-limited character, otherwise it would prevent the comb of the female from lopping over.
He is only lopping and snedding a fruitful tree, that it may be more fruitful.
As for our lovely and beloved church in Ireland, my heart bleedeth for her desolation; but I believe that our Lord is only lopping the vine-trees, but not intending to cut them down, or root them out.
Indeed, Chastisement moves on earth, piercing and cutting and afflicting and lopping off and dividing and striking and slaying and rushing against its victims.
The Wind said, 'Filled with rage, O Salmali, I would have done to thee precisely what thou hast done to thyself bylopping off all thy branches.
Tearing and piercing and afflicting and cutting and lopping off and grinding down, the great god moved with celerity among the thick masses of his foes like forest conflagration amid heaps of dry grass spread around.
The vexed question of =lopping one's neighbours' trees= is sure to crop up sooner or later.
One year after lopping the superfluous shoots are cut out and used or sold for "bonds" for tying up "kids" or the mouths of corn sacks.
My brooks were bordered on both sides by pollard withies, the whole being divided into seven parts or annual cuts, so that, as they are lopped every seven years a cut came in for lopping each year.
The men employed at the lopping had to stand on the heads of the pollards, and it was sometimes quite an acrobatic feat to maintain their balance on a small swaying tree, or on one which overhung the water.
In this case, however, the tenant had wisely planted the ground with withies, which he managed to get at for lopping when its turn came round every seven years.
The thinning, and lopping lower boughs of shade trees.
And some planters, I observe, are by no means satisfied with lopping the lower boughs, but trim off branches fifteen feet from the ground.
Only in the case when the mother is right-lopping is there a majority of offspring of the same sort, but here the numbers are too inconsiderable to carry much weight.
In that case one selects the larger or better defined lopping portion to designate as the lop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lopping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
