54 Verbs to Use for the Word loop

When a man is full of ginger ale his intestines loop the loop, and tie up in knots, and gripe like cholera infantum, and unless his friends hold him he goes out into the world and wants to kill the women and children, and non-combatants.

This apparently magical feat is accomplished by means of a halter of horse-hair, which is passed round under the neck of the horse and both ends braided into the mane, on the withers, thus forming a loop which hangs under the neck and against the breast.

"If I could but go to bed after mamma was asleep," he said, "I could tie a string to my hair, and then slip a loop at the other end over mamma's wrist, so that when she sat up to attend to Agnes, she would pull my hair and wake me.

By making a loop in his course, he would come in behind the hounds, and puzzle them between the scent of his first and following tracks.

The Ramblin' Kid spoke to the filly and, as she began to move shyly away, with one toss threw the loop over her head.

But the long beak in this description of shuttle serves an important purpose other than that of seizing the upper thread loops, otherwise a very short beak would be preferable.

the Ramblin' Kid said to himself as he lifted the loop from over her head.

Buddy took good aim, tossed the loop of rope over Sammie's head, and Sammie grabbed hold with his front paws, and then Buddy braced his feet in the sand and gave a long, strong pull, and pulled Sammie safely out of the water, and saved him; just in time, too, let me tell you, for his breath was nearly gone.

"There's such a thing, Swing, old settler, as being too quick, as whirling too wide a loop as the man said when he roped the locomotive.

of the circle, which suffices to cast the loops freely over the shuttle.

Then he felt something about his neck; and putting his hands up, found the loop of the lasso.

Jack chose a deep crimson and flung the loop over his head as if he were arraying himself for a ball.

The beak is intended to enter and detain the loops of upper thread, and lead them so that they ultimately envelop the shuttle, a motion of the thread which is chiefly due to the oscillation of the shuttle in a vertical plane.

Spread the tent on the ground to be occupied, door to the front, and place the right (or left) front wall loop over the pin.

The moment he let go of her he had to grip a loop of top-hamper and hold on with all his might to save himself from being pitched into the water by a fresh jerk of the mast and a fresh inundation of flying surge.

He sat down on the stone divan to wait, watching toward the west through the doorway across which hung a loop of vine, like a snake.

From the higher branches of the alders that shut out the sky with their dainty, silvery-green leaves, hungwith many a graceful loop and knotropes of wild grape-vine and curtains of virgin's-bower.

Just as it appeared that he would plow his way right through the delicate fabric, Jimsy hurled his loop.

The noble maidens who attended the Lady Laura, fresh and charming, were knotting loops of ribbon in pendant garlands or grouping flowers in great vases between the columns which crossed the chamber from end to enddarting up the stairway to the gallery to alter a festoon in garland or brocade.

The low mountains as those seen in the northwest direction is the same place now crossed by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and known as the Tehachipi pass, the noted loop, in which the railroad crosses itself, being on the west slope and Ft. Tejon being on the same range a little further south where the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Coast Range join.

There he made it kneel again, and, throwing the nose-rope over its head, he laid the loop thereof, with his stick, on the front seat of the saddle.

In that one throw he had learned José's method; the big loop, the overhead swirldirect, bullet-swift, deadly in its aim.

My plan, should an assault be made, is to draw in the sentinels, as soon as they have discharged their pieces, to close the gate, and man the loops.

Miss Craydocke was out of breath; and Leslie measured her even loops with eyes that glittered more and more.

A small man needs a longer loop than a tall man.

54 Verbs to Use for the Word  loop