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  • And loud he calls his Galloper of Irish blood and race:

    Songs Of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • And loud he calls his Galloper of Irish blood and race:

    Songs of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • And loud he calls his Galloper of Irish blood and race:

    Songs of Action Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • A trifling error in the setting of his three-cornered hat, whose rakish cock was for the moment reminiscent of the "Galloper," was quickly corrected on the advice of one of the Lords Commissioners at his side; and by the time the faithful Commons were admitted to hear the Commission read there was nothing to differentiate Lord BIRKENHEAD

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various

  • A tribute to the impeccable behaviour of "law-abiding" Ulster appeared to stir in the breast of Lord CREWE memories of the pre-war prancings of a certain "Galloper," for he remarked that the noble lord's information seemed to be "partial and recent."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 Various

  • Every morning at an ungodly hour, he would show up to pick up Sean, and the two of them would drive around in Mohaymen's white Hyundai Galloper to building sites all over the place .... until one day in July 2004, when Sean and I were briefly back in the States, some gunmen pulled even with the Galloper on a busy highway in broad daylight and shot Mohaymen to death.

    Tish Durkin: Iraq: A Place of Ambivalence 2008

  • Galloper Troppler and Hurleyquinn the zitherer of the past with his merrymen all, zimzim, zimzim.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Artillerie Volante—“Galloper guns” or fast horse artillery; all the gunners were mounted on horses, none on the limbers.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Artillerie Volante—“Galloper guns” or fast horse artillery; all the gunners were mounted on horses, none on the limbers.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • I found that he once "ran Galloper Light to a head;" which had a promising sound.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Various

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