You must remember that we swapped horses at the last minute.

If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.

His outlook was very dark, and there sprang up within him a wild longing to get back to North Carolina,back to the little whitewashed cabin, shaded with china and mulberry trees; back to the wood-pile and the garden; back to the old cronies with whom he had swapped lies and tobacco for so many years.

He wanted to swap a girl for me

Deacon Pitkin did a putty fair stroke o' business when he swapped off his old place for this 'ere.

More than once afterward, General Leeto use his own expressionthought of "swapping queens," that is to say, advancing upon Washington, without regard to the capture of Richmond; and President Lincoln, with that excellent good sense which he generally exhibited, felt that the loss of Washington would prove almost fatal to the Federal cause.

Van Hee swapped cigarettes with them and gossiped in their native tongue, in return for which they gave us some good advice.

We swapped commonplaces, I telling him what my business there was; and for a little while he plied his knife and fork busily, making the heavy gold curb chain on his left wrist tinkle musically.

Among savages a father owns his daughter as absolutely as his dog; he can sell or exchange her at pleasure; in Australia, "swapping" daughters or sisters is the commonest mode of marriage.

Deacon Pitkin did a putty fair stroke o' business when he swapped off his old place for this 'ere.

Wellington swapped his fish for supper and a bed at a neighbor's, and during the evening learned from several sources that the strange white man had been at his house the afternoon of the day before.

" SWAPPING GIRLS

I don't consider hogs a first-class crop; Give me my own free choice, sir, and I'd swap The best of 'em for strawberries or sheep But let me say again, you must plough deep; The trouble with our farmers is, that they Can't be induced to look beyond to-day; Let them get sub-soil ploughs and turn up sand And hang it, sir!

Not once, but a dozen times, officers of various rank let us look at their maps and use their field glasses; and they gave us advice for reaching the zone of actual fighting and swapped gossip with us, and frequently regretted that they had no spare mounts or spare automobiles to loan us.

Then they wanted to swap (narawaup) guns with me which I declined doing.

We won't swap hosses in the middle of the river.

But when your ma swapped the big house and the eighteen niggers for me and an old mammy to do the rough work, she left the breakfast-in-bed, fine-lady business behind her and started right in to get the rest of the education that belonged to her.

They went every Sunday to whittle sticks, swap jack-knives and horses, and to listen to the white-haired parson who led them by the resistless rhetoric of a blameless life, as well as by his heartfelt prayers and exhortations in those "ways which are ways of pleasantness and those paths which are paths of peace.

As she entered the kitchen, Sarah, the black slave, met her with, "Why, Miss Hanner, 'pears to me I should not like to swap Mr. Lawrence for Mr. Benson; 'pears he aint haff so perticler like.

The theory is that we two had betrayed you, Rammy, and swapped the letter against his bare promise to pay us in Damascus.

"I'd swap the lot for a proper pair of shoes and a skin o' that wine!

* Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of 1911, even to swapping managers in mid-season.

"Jim," he went on, when he saw I could not answer, "I guess you don't know where I can swap the yellow mud for balm of Gilead.

He began at once to swap patronage for kind words, and every noble was as ignoble as a phenomenal thirst and unbridled lust could make him.

For twenty minutes after that Hadad and Jeremy swapped reminiscences in quick staccato time.