galloping

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For outside he could hear the quick patter of feet hard-galloping, and the scurry of a huge creature racing madly to a call With a bound he sprang at the open door; and again the strap came lashing down, and a wild voice Quick, Wullie!

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  1. adjective Of or resembling a gallop, especially in rhythm or rapidity.
  2. adjective Developing or progressing at an accelerated rate: galloping technology.
  3. adjective Medicine Of or relating to a disease that progresses rapidly toward a fatal conclusion: galloping consumption.

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  • Chet Centaur came galloping, his fine body sweating from the effort. —  Night Mare
  • She was a young horse galloping, her legs so springy and strong, she laughed aloud out of very happiness, she could run-run-run forever arriving reluctantly at school, nerved-up, sweaty, itching for a fight, bad as Herschel wanting somebody to look at her cross-eyed or mouth Gravedigger! —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • Her pulse was still galloping, her nerves in a tangle, yet the knot was not one she recognized. —  Stephanie Laurens - The Ideal Bride
  • "I think the horses galloping are the best thing I've got We'll take your word for the horses," said Gorman. —  Gossamer 1915
  • Down this slope the cavalry were galloping, about two miles in advance of me, in squadron formation, towards a small kopje on which we had a picket. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
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  1. Verbal noun of gallop, v.
  2. Ppr. of gallop, v.
 

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