lope

IPA: ɫˈoʊp

Examples of "lope" in Sentences

Presently he comes down to a long, graceful "lope," and shortly he mysteriously disappears.
The dancing was the usual hippity-hop or "lope" sideways, each holding hands with his or her neighbours.
"I will," said Roy, as he called to his pony, who started off on a steady "lope" that rapidly carried him over the ground.
Already the bay was beginning to feel the run, and Marianne reluctantly drew down to the long lope which is the favorite gait of the cowpony.
This "lope" as it is called, seems to be a gait peculiarly adapted to the mustang, as they will break into, and keep it up the entire day; evincing no more distress than our ordinary horse does in trotting leisurely.
‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away.
This animal, if need be, will live on road-side croppings nearly as well as a mule, -- travel all day long on an easy "lope," never offering to stop till fatigue makes him fall, -- and, if you let him, will take you through _chaparrals_, and up and down precipices at whose bare suggestion an Eastern horse would break his legs.