Then hopples are placed on the hind fetlocks, to keep her heels down. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The hopples fall from your ankles -- you find an un. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
A pebbly brook, where rustling winds among the hopples sweep. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
The hopples fall from your anklesyou find an unfailing sufficiency. From Wordnik.com. [To You] Reference
The hopples fall from your ankles -- you find an unfailing sufficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
Mr Dickie said it appeared the hopples on Mr Falconer's horse were too long. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In the night she broke her hopples and struck out across the summit with the four mules at her heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert and the Sown] Reference
After many preparatory manoeuvres, he stooped down, and with his knife, represented the act of cutting the hopples of horses. From Wordnik.com. [Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 7] Reference
I know that the hair of all my colts is sorrel, and I counted five at sun-down, which is just as many as went loping through the underbrush when I loosened them from the hopples in the morning; but six-and-thirty backs can never carry seven-and-thirty growing fleeces of unsheared wool. From Wordnik.com. [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference
"Yes, and I'm rigging hopples to keep him here, I tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
And again came the men in the morning, and spake: "The hopples hold. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
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