Hooped Sentence Examples

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.