Hooped Sentence Examples

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  • The ridges are then hooped over, allowing about 2 ft.

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  • He perceived that to coil many turns of thin wire round an inner barrel was a logical extension of the large hooped method already mentioned, and in conjunction with I.

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  • There are also hooped or bowed canaries, feather-footed forms and top-knots, the latter having a distinct crest on the head; but the offspring of two such top-knotted canaries, instead of showing an increased development of crest, as might be expected, are apt to be bald on the crown.

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  • All the better to show off the special Elizabeth David at Argos hooped earrings.

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  • She is shovn wearing the dress of the period, the main feature being the French farthingale, a hooped petticoat introduced c.1590.

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  • I put my separate hooped petticoat on and that was it, ready to face the eager crowds.

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  • Half an hour later there appeared among the other mummers in the ballroom an old lady in a hooped skirt--this was Nicholas.

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  • These have the coronet in the centre of the flower very large in proportion to the other parts, and much expanded, like the old hooped petticoats.

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  • Potatoes are also grown largely in hooped beds on a warm border in the open ground.

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  • Among his more famous hoaxes were the " Edict of the King of Prussia " (1773), already described; the fictitious supplement to the Boston Chronicle, printed on his private press at Passy in 1782, and containing a letter with an invoice of eight packs of 954 cured, dried, hooped and painted scalps of rebels, men, women and children, taken by Indians in the British employ; and another fictitious Letter from the Count de Schaumberg to the Baron Hohendorf commanding the Hessian Troops in America (1777) - the count's only anxiety is that not enough men will be killed to bring him in moneys he needs, and he urges his officer in command in America " to prolong the war.

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