hops

• “She hops from the saddle as the horse becomes dragon, becomes sphinx, becomes phoenix bursting to flame.”

  Journaling: The Angel of Fiction « Looking for Roots

• “Minutes later, the captain hops onto Panamanian soil and ties the boat to a banana plant.”

  The Snatchback

• “We'll also buy hops from the brewing supply store.”

  Boing Boing

• “* Chodin hops off the chairlift - skis in front, poles to his side: textbook form*”

  ‘MEET BILL’ TRAILER

• “Standing at the bridge, Yin hops over the rails onto the water below.”

  Darker than Black ep 24 « Undercover

• “Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" was the first to fall, a ludicrous farrago about the search for eternal life that hops from the Spanish Inquisition to the present and into the future.”

  Newsweek: Movies: The Good, the Bad, The Hilariously Gross

• “On his knees, he reads a page, scanning his elegant handwriting, his memory racing back in hops, skips and jumps to the timestamped date.”

  fiction: four-letter words

• “It was a man, and he was running in short hops, as if he were using a stick or cane to assist him in covering ground rapidly.”

  Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods

• “They have to calculate a path in short hops, and take us through a step at a time.”

  Eight Keys to Eden

• “At other dancers they looked with a kind of airy scorn -- they, the light brigade, the heroes of a hundred Kensington 'hops' -- from whom alone could the right manner and smile and step be hoped.”

  The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property

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