They made their horses lope so they could arrive back at the ranch by dark. From LearnThat.org.
The dancing was the usual hippity-hop or "lope" sideways, each holding hands with his or her neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
"I will," said Roy, as he called to his pony, who started off on a steady "lope" that rapidly carried him over the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences] Reference
Presently he comes down to a long, graceful "lope," and shortly he mysteriously disappears. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
The two guards lope into the room down on all fours. From Wordnik.com. [IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS * Act I , scene 3] Reference
Marty came back from the Dickerson's at almost a lope. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Can tie down every maverick before it can strike a lope. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
So saying, he led the way at an easy lope to the southward. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference
Their own horses have only two gaits: the lope and the gallop. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
"Oh, we just lope around till we strike some stock," Pea said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
He reduced speed to a reluctant lope and then stopped altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
They started into a trot, then a lope, and finally an all-out run. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Down the road from the moors came his ministers at a staggering lope. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
"Well, yer alluded ter a magpie hoss as couldn't do nothin 'but lope.". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Sometimes he would run and he would lope if you "hitched" him to a buggy. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Vic and Vanka, the two dog/men lope onto the stage on all fours as before. From Wordnik.com. [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference
Since Mouse had an easy trot and a hard lope, Newt was happy with the gait. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Slim's horse started off on a lope, freshened by the rest, and Bud's followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference
They found him on the race-track, pounding out the miles in an effortless lope. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Because if you don't make a plan, then you just sort of lope along through life. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2006] Reference
Philip dragged his horse to a standstill as he saw the lion lope into the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Call kept her in a trot for a mile or two before letting her go back to the lope. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
She hurried forward, so Matt had to lope to catch up with her in the crowded midway. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
On the ground floor, Arkady turned off the light and went at a lope around the plaza. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
They put their ponies, at a lope, and seemed to be catching up with the dust cloud rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
The carriers were kept on the native shuffling lope by the aid of attentions from the askaris. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
At a fast lope it led away toward the trees that grew down the distant slope to the river bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
She as a child used to lope through the long grasslands of the Savannah of her native Mozambique. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2004] Reference
Toby could follow Killeen's smooth, slow lope as a rippling warp against the fiery background. —. From Wordnik.com. [Furious Gulf]
Farm boys lope under dirty clouds to crop-dusted paddocks, and water slips by the BP Service Station, somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
We first take a careful note of the position of any stars that may be visible, then start out at an easy lope or canter. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Running at the ungainly lope which was their best effort at speed were half a dozen Throgs emerging from the river section. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
They decide, consciously or unconsciously, to lope along in the life they've been living ... and then define that as "happiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Douglas LaBier: Our So-Called "Midlife" -- Why Happiness and Depression Both Appear to Increase] Reference
With Croxton boxed between them, Drew and the stranger matched pace at what was a lope rather than a gallop as Boyd ranged ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
He sometimes did it when going at easy lope, but never when his little girl-friend was on his back: then he went on springs of air. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
He urged his horse into a lope, and a little beyond the town dismounted to pick up the trail of the fugitive, if it could be found. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
She watched the calico pony lope away in a cloud of scurrying grasshoppers and wondered in a child-like way what could have happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
He turned, and saw close at hand a short, stockily built, swarthy-complexioned man of middle age, who came swinging forward at a lope. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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