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- noun Plural form of
hopple .
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Examples
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-- Then hopples are placed on the hind fetlocks, to keep her heels down.
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Also it is said that when he was blind he went about for to preach, and his servant that led him brought him whereas were many hopples of stones, to whom he made a noble sermon, and when he had all finished his sermon the stones answered and said, Amen.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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The hopples fall from your anklesyou find an unfailing sufficiency;
To You 1900
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In the night she broke her hopples and struck out across the summit with the four mules at her heels.
The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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The hopples fall from your ankles -- you find an unfailing sufficiency;
Pragmatism William James 1876
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The hopples fall from your ankles -- you find an un -
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That if you want the handcuffs knocked from your wrists, and the hopples from your feet, and the icy bands from your heart, there is just one Almighty arm in all the universe to do everything?
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As with Fenrir's Wolf it shall be: then the beast with the hopples I smote,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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The hopples fall from your ankles -- you find an unfailing sufficiency;
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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