38 Words to use with hop

He motioned to me to keep still, because he was stalking a hop-toad.

I found Melindy spreading yeast-cakes to dry on a table, just by the north end of the house; a hop-vine in full blossom made a sort of porch-roof over the window by which she stood.

He says we are unwise to lament the decay of timber in England; for all manner of buildings or fortification whatsoever, he desires no other thing in the world than barrels and hop-poles.

" "Ho, Lame Chicken!" called another, blocked by the hop-scotch.

Valleys run out on every side from the main one in which it stands; and the hills, which are everywhere at some distance, wind about in a very pleasant and picturesque manner, covered with mingled woods and fields, and hop-grounds.

Gebir, indeed, may mean the state of the hop markets last month, for anything I know to the contrary.

"Serve you right for finding fault with the sisters!" Come to think of it, if he had not been so ungracious of Miss Abigail's concern for him, he would now be in possession of a hop pillow to lull him back to sleep.

But one sad morn, when Minnie came, Her pre-ci-ous lit-tle pet she found, Not hop-ping, when she call-ed his name, But ly-ing dead up-on the ground.

At the end of the first year it becomes necessary to put poles into the hills, round which the bines reared from plants are wound; at the expiration of the second year, full-sized poles, from 15 to 20 feet, are set, (though the hop-bines will run to the height of 50 feet,) in the proportion of two poles to each hill, and a similar number of hop-plants are fastened loosely round each pole, by means of withered rushes.

Down the long, straight, dusty road we marched, hop yards and bright coloured fields on either side, here and there passing prosperous looking farms and estaminets: what a pleasant change it was from that ruined, dismal jungle we had so recently left!

It is one of the hop-step-and-a-jump tours that your fashionable folks make for making acquaintances and then making books.

" In connection with hops, the proverb runs that "hops make or break;" and no hop-grower, writes, Mr. Hazlitt, "will have much difficulty in appreciating this proverbial dictum.

He wasn't a hop-head, yet they all looked at him as sort of queer; though ready to follow him to the last ditch, yet some way they thought him off his head.

Meanwhile Di and Bobby had rounded the corner by an old hop-house and kept on down the levee.

Over this mixture pour gradually the boiling hop infusion, stirring constantly, that it may form a smooth paste, and set it aside to cool.

They sat down to break-fast: it was a ve-ry tear-ful one, and, with a strange feel-ing, they a-void-ed each o-ther's looks, hop-ing to hide their tears one from the o-ther.

"Seems like a hop joint in Pell street.

John, always a picturesque character, had become a hop picker in hop season, and a fisherman the rest of the year.

Except the graceful and vanishing pursuit of hop-picking, there is in New England no agricultural labor in which women can be said to be habitually engaged.

This stripping of the osiers is a most busy time in the neighbourhood of the large plantationsalmost like hop-pickingfor men, women, and children can all help.

It is only just over a hundred years since John Howard died; yet in his day persons could be put to death for stealing a horse or a sheep, for robbing dwellings, for defrauding creditors, for forgery, for wounding deer, for killing or maiming cattle, for stealing goods to the value of five shillings, or even for cutting a band in a hop plantation.

" Then bless the man who puts a sign Above his wide door's beam, And bless the hop-root, fruit and vine, For still I dream my dream, Where, as the flushing East turns pinker

De women wore hop skirts en de men wore tight breeches.

"Danny boy," he said ruefully, as Hepson walked away with them, "I can't very well get back to the hop soonperhaps not at all tonight.

Y-a-as, I swallered that glass by main strength, like a snake would a hop-toadkinder lengthened myself until I was outside of it.

38 Words to use with  hop