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  • "gallopped" up stairs, he went rather slowly, with one or two at least, in the drawing-room.

    The Gold of Chickaree Susan Warner 1852

  • Luckily most of the asses were loose, and gallopped up the valley; but the horses and people were very much stung, and obliged to scamper in all directions.

    The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

  • Thereupon King Yunan took the bat from the Sage and grasped it firmly; then, mounting steed, he drove the ball before him and gallopped after it till he reached it, when he struck it with all his might, his palm gripping the bat handle the while; and he ceased not malling the ball till his hand waxed moist and his skin, perspiring, imbibed the medicine from the wood.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Suddenly the gates of the gardens of the Tuileries opened: we rushed forward, out gallopped an enormous number of cuirassiers, in the middle of which were a couple of low carriages, said first to contain the Count de Paris and the Duchess of Orleans, but afterwards they said it was the

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • King, to whom he gallopped immediately, and although he beheld him to bee very angerly moved; yet he spared not to speake in this maner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I sweare by the fairest of all my fortunes, although I misse of thee heere: yet I will be sure to find thee some where else, and so he gallopped mainely away.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Scarcely was Lionello entred the Castle, and receiving directions by the waiting woman, to her Ladies Chamber: but Lambertuccio gallopped in at the Gate, which the woman perceiving, ranne presently and acquainted her Lady with the comming of

    The Decameron 2004

  • They now bound the eyes of La Motte and of the young lady, whom terror had hitherto kept silent, and then placing them on two horses, a man mounted behind each, and they immediately gallopped off.

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

  • Pedro then turning his horse so expeditiously as he could, and giving him the spurres as need required; mainly he gallopped into a neere adjoyning Forrest, more minding the following of Angelina, then any direction of way, or them that endeavoured to bee his hindrance.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Lance, downe he fell dead to the ground, and his men (fearing the like misfortune to befall them) gallopped mainely backe againe to their Lords Castle, not knowing them who had thus murthered their

    The Decameron 2004

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