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verb

Lope v. i. (past & past part. loped; pres. part. loping)

To leap; to dance. (Prov. Eng.) "He that lopes on the ropes."

To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse. (U.S.)

To run with an easy, bounding stride; of people.

Lope past Of Leap. (Obs.) "And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser."

noun

Lope n.

A leap; a long step. (Prov. Eng.)

An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. (U.S.) "The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope,... a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lope" Quotes from Famous Books

... had the misfortune to be a hunchback, to be embittered by his deformity, and to be constantly engaged in personal quarrels with his rivals; but his attitude in these polemics is always dignified, and his crushing retort to Lope de Vega in Los pechos privilegiados is an unsurpassable example of cold, scornful invective. More than any other Spanish dramatist, Alarcon is preoccupied with ethical aims, and his gift of dramatic presentation is as brilliant as his dialogue is natural ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... memory was a mine. She knew by heart All Cal'deron and greater part of Lope. Byron, Don ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... Morgante of his cuts both ways, or rather one way, and that sheer against us; and then there was Aretino, who dealt so hard with the poveri frati; all writers, at least Italian ones, are not lick spittles. And then in Spain,—'tis true, Lope de Vega and Calderon were most inordinate lick-spittles; the 'Principe Constante' of the last is a curiosity in its way; and then the 'Mary Stuart' of Lope; I think I shall recommend the perusal of that work to the Birmingham ironmonger's daughter; ...

— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow

... wielded by the powerful arm of some hardy chopper. Looking along shore Paul discovered the wood cutter just about the same instant that worthy discovered him. The tall, lank West Virginian eyed the strange looking creature far a second, dropped the ax and started in a lope for his cabin. Suspecting that the curious landsman was going after his rifle, as it is customary for them to shoot at anything in the water they cannot understand, Boyton sounded a lusty blast on the bugle to attract the chopper's attention from the shooting iron. The man returned to the water's ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... lands. In one of his memorials to Philip II, he represented that he knew of many islands in the South Sea which were undiscovered by Europeans until his time, offering to undertake an expedition for their re-discovery with the approval of the Governor of Peru, who was then Lope ...

— The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea • George Collingridge

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