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“He who pronounced Brot and Kase for Bread and Cheese had his head lopt off,” stated a chronicle of the events.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

“He who pronounced Brot and Kase for Bread and Cheese had his head lopt off,” stated a chronicle of the events.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

There between the thinning uprights at the margin straggle tangled oak and flayed sheeny beech-bole, and fragile birch whose silvery queenery is draggled and ungraced and June shoots lopt and fresh stalks bled runs the Jerry trench.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

There between the thinning uprights at the margin straggle tangled oak and flayed sheeny beech-bole, and fragile birch whose silvery queenery is draggled and ungraced and June shoots lopt and fresh stalks bled runs the Jerry trench.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In all human institutions a smaller evil is allowed to procure a greater good; as in politics, a province may be given away to secure a kingdom; in medicine, a limb may be lopt off, to preserve the body.

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

Style, and withal a Wit and Invention so overflowing, that the luxuriant Branches thereof were frequently thought convenient to be lopt off by Mr. _Beaumont_; which two joyned together, like _Castor_ and _Pollux_, (most happy when in conjunction) raised the _English_ to equal the _Athenian_ and _Roman_ Theaters; _Beaumont_ bringing the

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

In the middle of the fort stands a tree with its branches lopt off within six or eight inches of the trunk, and this serves for a watch-tower.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

I should then hear the account of the barbarities that have rent the bosom of France patiently, and bless the firm hand that lopt off the rotten limbs.

Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

When the Vandals invaded the land he had advanced to meet them with a procession of singers and got an ugly sword cut, which lopt off a piece of his head.

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

While he went ahead with the axe, and lopt off the smallest twigs of the flat-leaved cedar, the arbor-vitae of the gardens, we gathered them up, and returned with them to the boat, until it was loaded.

The Maine Woods 1858