hopple

How To Use hopple In A Sentence

• The people of the territories are denied the power to form State governments unless they consent to fasten upon them the slave-hopple, the iron wristlet, and the neck-spike. Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)
• Into their midst he went and a good horse was picked out and lariated in the twinkling of an eye and quickly hoppled and turned loose. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
• So we side-lined and hoppled, we belled and we staked, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
• I've got to have him," said Billy, as he returned to his hoppled prizes and began to drive them toward the fort. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
• The latter plan is the best, because the animal, side-hoppled, is able to go but little faster than a walk, while the front hopple permits him, after a little practice, to gallop off at considerable speed. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
• Smith led him to the edge of the bog, knelt down, drew aside a branch of witch-hopple. The Flaming Jewel
• Now this circus is only a little more than two miles off," said he, "and here I am cooped up like a hoppled horse. Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
• Then each man would bring in the horses he had charge of, keep them still hoppled and tie them to short stakes carried with us, driven close into the ground, giving each one as much room as could be without interfering with others, so that they could feed also during the night. Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
• I was on my feet with the dawn, but my mule was nowhere to be seen, though I had hoppled her well with my bridle reins. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
• When it began to grow light he looked down, and there were the three narts, who, having hoppled their horses and turned them out to graze, were themselves resting under the tree. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science