| 单词 | lop off |
| 例句 | When the colony still would not surrender Tisquantum, Massasoit sent a messenger with a knife and told Bradford to lop off Tisquantum’s hands and head. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He slapped the fish onto the table and, in one clean stroke of the hatchet, lopped off its head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Since the censors’ Greek was even worse than Milton’s, they often made mistakes, lopping off endearments, x’s and o’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was lopping off its head with a cleaver — ruining the meat! the servants yelled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion lopped off the head of his spear, then his hand, then his arm, trotting around him in a circle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I would have pleaded illness, but I knew that Falconer would brook no excuse short of my writing hand being lopped off—and even then he would probably insist that I transcribe left-handed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z One thinks immediately of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who after having both his arms lopped off declares, “It’s just a flesh wound.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He said, “I just center the subject as best I can and lop off whatever hangs over on either end.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z One swing of the cutting blade could lop off her head if she got sassy or too close, and it would be her own fault. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We all ate fried chicken that Mother had cooked, southern style, starting from scratch with killing them and lopping off their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I managed to slash with my sword and lop off part of the monster’s snout. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop off these soggy clumps to make my hair even again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s laser eyes continued to lop off my body parts. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I stand on a towel while she lops off my curls with quick snaps of the shears. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long-ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there aren’t enough hats to go around, the problem isn’t solved by lopping off some heads. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For some reason, the women in the flower parade had their heads lopped off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Grimacing cats with splayed claws appear frequently; in one instance, their tails lop off the heads of men in crescent-shaped helmets. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z He also cropped his subjects in unorthodox places, lopping off parts of familiar objects — or worse still, people — to disturbing effect. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z In reality, a head was lopped off in an intratribal war as recently as last March. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z “Is it a criminal offense for lopping off someone's foot on a plane?” another said. Passenger shamed for putting bare foot on someone else's armrest during flight 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Ideally, whichever meat you choose will have built up a dark outer bark that can be lopped off with a few knife strokes and stacked on to a disc of griddled flatbread. Why Does This Fancy Shopping Mall Smell Like Street Meat? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “It’s like taking a serrated knife and lopping off our history,” she said of the addition. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z The other four conservatives believed that the mandate could not be lopped off from the rest of the law and that, since one key part was unconstitutional, the entire law must be struck down. The Supreme Court's John Roberts Changed His Obamacare Vote in May 2012-07-01T17:01:02Z We use a cone with the tip lopped off, attached to a board, pointy side down. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z In 1777 a direct hit on the painting from an American cannonball lopped off the king’s head. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z Tune in next season when Dexter lops off a dog's head and eats it, and then Debra unknowingly falls in love with Pol Pot. "Dexter" finally goes too far 2009-12-14T20:15:00Z The shoulders were lopped off, giving the silhouette an interesting T-shape. Giambattista Valli presentation in Paris channels 1960s 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z By that measure, it’s easier to lop off the memories of seasons one to four, and accept these three on their own terms. The ultimate TV recap: a superfan's tribute to The West Wing 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Her face is unrecognisable—a mess of torn flesh, an ear severed, her nose lopped off—and so is her life. Reconstruction 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Indeed, the occupiers were so much at their ease that when Sir William Macnaghten, who was administering the occupation, had his head lopped off, he thought he was at a friendly meeting with his slaughterer. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-23T09:01:01Z Everyone else was in the jungle, climbing tall sal trees and lopping off leaves for the buffaloes to eat. Personal Journeys: ‘Behind the Veil of the Forest’ in India 2012-12-21T16:57:27Z The arts aren’t a useless appendage that can be lopped off without inflicting serious damage. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z But they lopped off an hour, reduced the cast to a skimpy nine actors and pared the story to the bare essentials. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z Unlike MGM’s 1968 wide-screen rerelease of Gone With the Wind, which lopped off the stars’ foreheads in closeups, The Wizard is shown in the familiar Academy ratio; it gives you, literally, the full picture. Oz Revisited: Why We Still Follow the Yellow Brick Road 2013-09-16T21:44:52Z Your decision lopped off your partner’s expected life path. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Heads and hands are lopped off at regular intervals; the body count practically defies computation; and the finale is a banquet that only the meat-pie-making Mrs. Lovett of “Sweeney Todd” could love. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z By comparison Mr. Murphy originally lopped off an entire act of “Conversations on a Homecoming,” which looks at a reunion through the disillusioned eyes of an out-of-work actor who has just returned from America. ‘DruidMurphy,’ Three Tom Murphy Plays at Lincoln Center 2012-06-29T00:55:05Z It felt like large chunks of the 2nd act were just lopped off because the running time was too long. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The canvas is turned vertically and the top of the taller tree appears lopped off to compress its shape into a bulky, churning mass. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Did he simply slice off a little chunk of his ear, or did he lop off the entire ear? New Evidence on van Gogh’s Ear Continues Debate on Painter’s Mental State 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Hands are lopped off and music trying as hard as it can to sound like it was recorded in 1975 is heard. A pro-lesbian movie about women in prison? 2011-03-19T14:01:00Z Then, I’d pull the steaming bird out of the pan and hold it by the drumsticks to lop off its legs, which returned to the oven to finishing cooking while the breast rested. This Whole Duck Recipe Is Perfectly Imperfect 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z That’s only an estimate, though to judge by the gruesome opener that features the title character as a boy gouging enemy flesh and lopping off heads, it’s a fair guess. | 'Conan the Barbarian': Keep Hold of Your Head, Lest He Lop It Off With the Others 2011-08-18T21:54:37Z She tells me she once dropped a Seamless order on a sculpture and it lopped off the arm. The Artist Critiquing Feminine Clichés with Ceramic Heels and Cigarette Butts 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z By lopping off the last syllable, it's clear there's a Haitian-Creole influence at play. When I think of essential Cuban food, I think of congrí 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z There's nothing that can be done to change the status quo, and questioning it might get your head lopped off. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Sigfusson lopped off two stalks of wild hops to season the broth, a new use — at least to me — of the brewmaster’s mainstay. Why Cook Over an Icelandic Geyser? Because You Can 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z As it happens, he’s a handy guy with a sword and, well, limbs and appendages will be lopped off as this lawman lays down the law. ‘Only God Forgives’: Violence and vengeance in overdrive 2013-07-19T13:00:07Z And, as women in the 1920s had found when they lopped off long hair, the freedom was sexual as much as visual. Saying Farewell to Vidal Sassoon 2012-10-15T13:58:47Z Using a freshly sharpened knife, lop off tops and tails, slip off skins. Go big with a standing rib roast for Christmas dinner 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z If you don’t obey your parents, it’s going to get lopped off.” From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z The great thing about reading Buckley is that one comes to really understand why so gallant a nation as France lopped off so pretty a head as Marie Antoinette’s. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The WNO production also lopped off this essential vignette, a major loss and one that confuses the drama. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Pax Jolie-Pitt, 7, had a similar long, straight ’do that seems to have been lopped off in recent photos. If You Love My Hair That Much, Mom, Take It 2010-12-23T01:12:11Z Their tentacle-like inner arms are laced together to help them keep their balance — a good thing, considering that their lower limbs are either lopped off or replaced by hooks. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Her hair—clearly a wig—is an abstract-looking bob, lopped off mid-neck, while her legs appear bifurcated by a swatch of tablecloth, giving her the fragmented aspect of a Bellmer doll. The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The flamboyant, sociopathic Missy Blonde emerges as the main suspect but proves her criminality by lopping off something unmentionable and waggling it in a hostage’s face. Which other Hollywood 'bro' movies need a Ghostbusters-style gender swap? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The back of the building was lopped off to build a road to the nearest metro station and a second-floor exhibition space was added. An Arts Explosion Takes Shanghai 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It means a decade of progress, growth and popularity has been lopped off. Warning for Seattle: The schools’ pandemic hangover is not easing 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The Manchester-Leeds leg was lopped off by the Conservative government in 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic brought train travel to a halt. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rallies his Conservatives by saying he’s ready to take tough decisions 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Rub the excess paper from the head of garlic, trim its root end to remove any dirt and lop off the top ½-inch to expose the cloves. This cookbook shares 20 full menus for all types of gatherings 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z State lotteries typically lop off 24% of winnings for federal taxes, and the bill can run even higher because the top federal income tax rate is 37%. $1.55 billion Mega Millions prize balloons as 31 drawings pass without a winner 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Does that mean developers should lop off the back of hotels to make housing? American Cities Have a Conversion Problem, and It’s Not Just Offices 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The immediate objective would be to lop off 2.5 hours a week in 2024 from 40 now, and then gradually cut the working week to 32 hours, she said. Spain's potential leftist kingmaker courts voters with shorter workweek pledge 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z PwC acting chief executive Kristin Stubbins told a state parliament inquiry on Monday the firm would not benefit from a sale that will lop off a fifth of its current revenues. PwC Australia asset sale unlikely to solve firm's tarnished reputation 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a court petition under that law in December 2021, asking that 432 months in firearm enhancements be lopped off Frost’s sentence. Seattle clemency group is helping free lifers from WA prisons — and thrive on the outside 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes Tom’s head will be menacingly lopped off by the top of the frame, as if to underscore just how small, and how vulnerable, Lea is. Review: The teen drama 'Palm Trees and Power Lines' tells a searing story of abuse 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Spooked investors have lopped off more than $100 billion from the market capitalisation of seven of the group's listed stocks since Hindenburg Research last week questioned the group's debt levels and use of tax havens. India's Adani shares nosedive on concern about broader Hindenburg fallout 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The plan would generally restore pre-pandemic rail service, but also lop off part of the Yellow Line, which would cease operations north of Mount Vernon Square at stations also served by the Green Line. Metro proposes fare, service hikes while emerging from pandemic 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z So commercial aviation says it’s looking to lop off emissions where it can — from the routes aircraft take to the time they spend circling airports, sitting on the tarmac or idling at the gate. Commercial aviation, built on pollution, is getting a tiny bit greener 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Now, Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda is trying basically the same thing by proposing to lop off 80 sworn officer positions. Seattle City Council should stay strong on building back public safety 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Rep. Pramila Jayapal, just had her head lopped off for suggesting, in a letter, that the U.S. ought to keep supporting Ukraine but also seek to negotiate an end to Russia’s war with that country. Antifa on the train? How the GOP is making new rules for political speech 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Because the trap creates a straight-line injury across the paw, the toes appear to have been lopped off. Fur traps fingered as source of grizzly injuries 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z I grabbed a fistful of lavender and chopped away at the stems as if I were lopping off a ponytail. In Washington state, lavender fields forever 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In other instances, he explained, arborists have climbed up the giant trees to check for embers or to lop off their burning limbs. How to Save an Ancient, Giant Tree From a Wildfire 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In the case of the toilet paper, Georgia-Pacific recently lopped off more than 100 sheets from each roll. Manufacturers, retailers resort to ‘shrinkflation’ amid production crisis 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Ordinarily, if a project starts to exceed its budget, funders lop off parts of it to contain costs. Pandemic lockdowns, supply shortages, and inflation wreak havoc with big science projects 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Similarly, the Viper V2 Pro manages this feat without being drilled full of holes to lop off weight. Razer’s Viper V2 Pro wireless gaming mouse is extremely lightweight 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The state legislature lopped off the tail of Ms. Kaptur’s oddly drawn district along Lake Erie — nicknamed the Snake on the Lake — then extended it west through rural Ohio to the Indiana border. Labor’s Disenchantment in Ohio Puts Even Democratic Veterans at Risk 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “They would boil them and lop off the end of the shell and eat the flesh out of them,” Dr. Prufer said. Human Migration Brought Maize to Maya Region, Study Finds 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z This one is a lockout that the owners instigated, and it will shorten the start of the year rather than lop off the conclusion of a campaign. Perspective | What baseball loses when capitalism and romanticism collide 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The company lopped off Beethoven’s beginning and his ending. Review: Beethoven remade as Black Lives Matter music at the Broad Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Or will it simply keep the current schedule, lop off the games missed, never to be played and move forward as if they never existed? Uneasy feelings persist as MLB negotiations continue on decisive day of labor impasse 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The commission, however, appears intent on lopping off Republican-heavy Simi Valley from Mr. Garcia’s district in north Los Angeles County, leaving him holding on by a thread to a considerably less conservative seat. Redistricting Makes California a Top House Battlefield for 2022 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Then late last summer, when they hired a company to lop off branches encroaching on the neighbor’s yard, the company’s workers pointed out ominous symptoms: browning leaves, dead branches. Across the Mid-Atlantic, giant oak trees are dying 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The angst was quickly solved by carpenters lopping off the top layer of shelving to reveal the windows in full and a slightly lower countertop under them. A major renovation yields a multigenerational home on Capitol Hill 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z A gray cable knit sweater had the midriff section lopped off, alongside frayed white shirt hems. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week’s post-virus comeback 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In a show of determination and defiance, one of the first things Ms. Theary Seng did when she learned of the charges against her was to lop off her hair. Charged With Treason, a Genocide Survivor Opts to Fight, Not Flee 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Norton suggested that transgender women were driven by mental illness to lop off body parts, and yet it was only those who objected who were ridiculed. In Michigan, Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z At first it was light work, lopping off radiating branches that made up the tree’s crown. Goodbye to a Yankee Farmer, the Ghost of Exit 8 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Depending on the state, convicted felons can have as much as half their sentence lopped off if they behave themselves in prison. Cops who kill often catch a break at sentencing time 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “The wealthy are under attack and they are seeing if there isn’t a way to lop off 15%. They are looking for options.” 'Millionaires tax' threat has some NY bankers, managers eyeing exits 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Corsair is the latest company to introduce a 60-percent wired mechanical keyboard of its own, lopping off the arrow keys and other functions for a more compact design. Corsair’s K65 RGB Mini gaming keyboard is for people who think less is more 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Last week, Iowa legislators sent to Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, legislation that would cut a third of the state’s early-voting period and lop off an hour of Election Day voting. Supreme Court Case Could Limit Options to Fight Republican Voting Restrictions 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z “But once you lop off all the senior judges, it’s hard to view it otherwise.” New York Is Ousting Older Judges to Save Money. They’re Fighting Back. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z I tried to whitewash my résumé — and thereby my age — by lopping off early jobs and erasing the year I graduated from college and grad school. Perspective | At my age, it’s time to fight everyday ageism — especially when I’m guilty of it 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Now, he is bent on lopping off limbs throughout this country’s intelligence apparatus. Opinion | Trump’s purges are spreading, and it’s dangerous 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z It doesn’t take any English to lop off 2,000 turkey tails in an hour. ‘We Were Bulletproof’: As Child Soldiers Grow Up, Legacy of War Lingers 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z When they were transferred, the system simply lopped off a chunk of the names. In U.K.’s Test and Trace: Now You See ’em, Now You Don’t 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z One way to reduce the time of game, of course, is to lop off innings. Analysis | This year, MLB pennant races will be decided nine innings at a time — or sometimes seven 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Remember, that despite years of planning, the weather forced Republicans to lop off one day apiece from their conventions in 2008 and 2012. RNC, DNC conventions amid Covid leave veteran journalist pining for normalcy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z After each was felled, he scrambled toward the tree’s top to lop off branches. A return to the past with oak savannas in Dane County parks 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z For about five years, beginning in the mid-1990s, the Taliban went around terrorizing women and lopping off limbs and basically behaving like the Khmer Rouge. Opinion | Why is the party with a strong chance of winning playing a reckless game with U.S. history? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Another statue of Columbus in Boston had its head lopped off last week. Cities Want to Remove Toxic Monuments. But Who Will Take Them? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In Houston, the left hand has been lopped off a 7-foot statue of Columbus that’s been a repeated target of vandals. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z A diseased tree with three infected and intertwined branches that each must be lopped off. Opinion | The problem of policing isn’t bad apples. It’s a diseased tree. 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z And some pro scouting and player development officials are frustrated that the draft got lopped off at five rounds. Perspective | Minor leagues have major issues, and baseball’s future will feel the impact 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z If entire teams are being lopped off, might cutting down on travel costs be a good way to salvage some that remain? Perspective | College sports should use this time to heal its self-inflicted wounds 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Entire limbs are being lopped off family trees, and their wisdom and lore are dying with them. Venerable but vulnerable: Centenarians hit hard by virus 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z White dudes like him have been moaning about decadence for millennia, usually just before they lead us to war or get their heads vigorously lopped off. Review | How success ruined the West 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z And so last year he launched a long-shot campaign to persuade the leaders of Baja California Sur to lop off the Baja and lose the Sur. Think you know where California is? Think again, says a Mexican activist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Sections of the silhouette - such as the midriff or the top of thighs - seemed to be visually lopped off in a clever show of shape-play by the French designer. Fluidity and autumnal hues hit Paris menswear week 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z A&T State University area, now lopped off from Greensboro, into the same district as the rest of the city would create a Democratic district, The Post analysis shows. Redistricting activists brace for wall of inaction as battle moves to states 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z By delaying the start of that career by a year, the league is lopping off 20% of the average player’s career. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Wednesday sleeps in a guillotine bed, arising quickly each morning and evading the blade that threatens to lop off her braids with nooses at the ends. ‘The Addams Family’ review: a kooky but not-so-spooky animated feature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Domes and minarets are lopped off mosques and replaced with curving Chinese roofs. China's Muslim clampdown creeps into the heartland, targeting Hui minority 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But inflation has again risen to 175 percent, lopping off chunks of people’s wages and savings. Zimbabwe police violently disperse protest over nose-diving economy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The government lopped off Ladakh, a mountainous and predominantly Buddhist area of Jammu and Kashmir, into a separate territory. Modi’s radical move on Kashmir takes India into uncharted territory 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, name another course on earth that could choose to lop off its 17th and 18th holes and still get better. How Royal Portrush got its (unlikely) second chance to host the British Open - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Clean monochrome silhouettes emphasized the shoulder - be it the human shoulder exposed with garment’s arm lopped off, or a constructed, rounded or oversize shoulder that evoked the Eighties. Styles get romantic in Paris menswear with verdant blooms 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z At four sites in Mawanella, a central Sri Lankan town, they hacked at Buddhist statues, lopping off parts of their faces and hands. 'Mawanella was the start': small Sri Lankan town reels from bombing links 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Hollings later lopped off his surname from the legislation, saying the revised effort lacked teeth. Senate pays tribute to Fritz Hollings, the 'senator from central casting' 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In the case of the open-center tree, lop off the central stem just above the third branch. For plenty of delicious fruit, be sure to prune fruit trees 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Then, the sales would dip drastically below previous forecasts, lopping off $45.2 billion in the next three years, the data showed. Exclusive: India's e-commerce curbs could hit online sales by $46... 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The former US ambassador to the UN once said that if you lopped off the top 10 floors of the organisation’s New York headquarters, it would make no difference. Who is Heather Nauert? The new UN ambassador with little experience 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He recently unveiled new currency in August that lopped off five zeros from previous bank notes. Nicolas Maduro likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In the aftermath of a tough competition, cherish the little blessings: No one has lopped off the losers’ heads, slathered them in an embalming fluid and mounted them for all to see. A brief history of displaying opponents' severed heads 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Bolton, who once called for lopping off the top floor of the U.N. headquarters, appears eager to downgrade the ambassadorial position there to reflect his conviction that the global body is irrelevant. Trump may tap State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. envoy to United Nations - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Plus, Stanton can opt out of his contract after the 2020 season, which would potentially lop off the final seven years and $218 million of that deal — money that could be replaced by Harper’s salary. Analysis | Where will Bryce Harper play in 2019? A comprehensive guide to the leading contenders. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Personally, for that reason, I would have lopped off the final scene, which I simply didn’t believe in, and which, if anything, resolves too much. “Bohemian Rhapsody” Is the Least Orgiastic Rock Bio-Pic 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z As one popular joke goes: it’s like Fifa, just lop off a few zeros. Who will be king? Three-way battle for control rocks international chess 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z And one member told me, she said, "I already had my head lopped off for going against him before the November election. I can't afford for that to happen again." Exclusive: Rep. Eric Swalwell says by beating Republicans this fall, “we’re doing them a favo... 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Then they said they would lop off three zeros. Venezuela Cuts to Fight Inflation (Zeroes From Its Currency, That Is) 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “It’s unprecedented in the United States that one branch of the government goes in and lops off another,” he said. A Coup or a Couch? What’s Behind the Impeachment of West Virginia’s Supreme Court 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But imagine if Coachella lopped off the top line of its headliners and the festival then got even more popular. KCON aims to ride the 'Korean wave' to pop-culture dominance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The stone is no longer rectangular; it’s more like a pyramid with the pointy end lopped off. We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z One of Maduro’s plans to alleviate inflation is to issue new banknotes with the last three zeros lopped off, though economists say that will do little to help. 'Millionaires are poor': Venezuelans struggle to survive as inflation spirals 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z But on July 25, with the dollar trading for nearly 3.5 million bolívars on the black market and continuing to lose value, the government said it would lop off five instead. Venezuela Cuts to Fight Inflation (Zeroes From Its Currency, That Is) 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z And measuring whether the neutron is or isn't close to the platform lops off half of the original wave. Quantum measurements could power a tiny, hyper-efficient engine 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z It lopped off 80 words of longstanding language from its postmeeting statement which discussed how rates were “likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run.” The Fed’s Statement Was Short, but It Wasn’t Sweet 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z So North Berwick’s Redan, and every such hole that has since followed, lops off one half of the fortress in imitating it. What makes Shinnecock's Redan green so unique - Golf Digest 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The victim was beaten and had a finger lopped off. Dozens with ties to supremacist gangs arrested in Texas 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Blood is relatively easy to get, but lopping off an arm or sticking a needle into a living person's heart or liver is no trivial undertaking. Genes remain active after death 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The question is: at what point would someone lop off their arm and replace it with something bionic? When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Four weeks ago, he nearly lopped off the tops of his first two fingers on his left hand with an electric hedge trimmer doing yard work at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. Jumped off the Jason Day bandwagon, have you? The Aussie wants to make you regret it - Golf Digest 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Vanilla-blond hair falls in a soft wave, lopped off at shoulder blade height. Donatella Versace: "My brother was the king, and my whole world had crashed around me” 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The Islamic State radicals of Raqqa lopped off the head of a teenager caught listening to Western music. Opinion | Liberals and conservatives must stand together against the extremes 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Vishnu lopped off the demon’s head before the liquid passed his throat, so his immortal head travels around the heavens chasing the sun and moon for revenge. ‘There’s no power on Earth that can stop this’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Green arrives as the Trump administration proposes lopping off almost a third of the budget of the State Department and almost 40 percent from USAID, a $10 billion cut, to $15.4 billion. A foreign assistance philosophy for an era of limited resources 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The Knight Institute has been spared a presidential blockade but says its “right to hear” political commentary and dissent is impinged whenever Mr Trump lops off another quarrelsome user. Twitter users sue Donald Trump for excluding them 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “It’s also not good business to have people lopping off heads and using your company as part of that terrorist mechanism.” Counter-terrorism was never meant to be Silicon Valley's job. Is that why it's failing? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Virginia shooting guard Kyle Guy lopped off his trademark man bun but says he might grow it back some day. These guys won’t say which parent they like better 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Long ago, lopping off mountaintops and strip mining, requiring machines instead of humans, erased good mining jobs. Donald Trump has ditched the world in favor of Big Oil's titans | Jill Abramson 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But it also lops off one of the advantages of Windows: compatibility with the millions of applications written for the operating system over the years. Microsoft going back to school with new version of Windows 10, Surface Laptop 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Instead, Nemo-Q records people counting from, say, one to 12, then lops off the numbers they don’t need. Perspective | Crikey! Why does an English woman address customers at the Georgetown DMV? 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The filmmakers have lopped off the “Mighty Morphin” from the title, reshuffled a few character ethnicities and stirred some wisecracking millennial attitude into the mix. What a onetime 'Power Rangers' fan turned film critic says about the new movie 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Trump administration wants to lop off another 14.1 percent from the Internal Revenue Service’s budget, according to a recent New York Times report. Opinion | Trump’s gift to Americans: Making it easier to cheat on their taxes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z At one point, he suggested lopping off part of the District and folding it into Maryland. Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce statehood bill, lacks GOP support 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Open because he lopped off his finger in my truck. Undercover Tour Pro: Toys In The Truck - Golf Digest 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z At one point, he suggested lopping off part of the District and folding it into Maryland, sending the committee into a tizzy. GOP House chair: Maybe we should cut off part of D.C. and send it back to Maryland 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z He has since nailed himself to Red Square, wrapped himself in barbed wire and lopped off an earlobe while sitting naked on the wall of a psychiatric institute. Russian artist Pavlensky 'to seek French asylum' amid sex claim - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z To do so, each team had to first figure out how to stabilize the stalk after lopping off the head. There may someday be a way to avoid the yearly flu shot 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “There has to be some decision about lopping off some of the branches,” said F. Gregory Gause III, a Middle East specialist at the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service. Saudi Royal Family Is Still Spending in an Age of Austerity 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Her first attempt to challenge this idea came at the age of four when she burned all her dresses in the backyard and lopped off her hair with a pair of sewing scissors. 'I'm moving to Canada': the cops, pop stars and athletes who made good on the threat 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Florentines usually asserted their power over the local nobles by ordering them to lop off their towers. San Gimignano: Tower power in Tuscany 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z According to a 2012 report in the Guardian, government documents revealed that one group of security agents had “lopped off the limbs of suspects and fed prisoners with their own flesh”. India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z So the sculptor lopped off more than 20 feet. St. Vladimir, all 60 feet of him, rises near the Kremlin 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Dodson’s wife, Pat, said one of the possible solutions proposed by an engineer who homeowners have consulted is to lessen the weight of the building by lopping off the top 20 floors. In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z They could have lopped off that entire opening focused on her, and viewers would never have noticed. Blu-ray review: ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z They were a tough bunch, especially early on, when enemies were beheaded, impaled through the rectum and disemboweled — not necessarily in that order, as lopping off someone’s head first was considered a form of mercy. ‘The Romanovs’: The family that ruled and terrorized Russia 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Since then he's nailed himself to Red Square by the scrotum, wrapped himself in barbed wire and leaped naked onto the wall of a psychiatric institute to lop off his earlobe. Pavlensky Russian trial: Bizarre case of performance artist - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Despite the galloping inflation that resulted in zeroes being regularly lopped off the currency and an authoritarian regime that brooked little public dissent, many considered Brazil to be the "country of the future." Brazil: No Longer the Country of the Future? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z I note the quick Google definitions are lopping off the last two words, "by men," which dilutes the force. Armchair Feminism and the Media Chorus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Successive generations have lopped off the final step of the traditional "pre-drinks at home, drinks in a bar or pub, then club" night out. Whatever happened to the Great British nightclub? - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z At least 15,000 employees would need to be lopped off to get the kind of cost savings the deal needed to thrive. Carly Fiorina: Pushing ahead and paying a price 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The University of California Hastings College of the Law began a program called Lawyers for America in 2011 that lops off the last year of academic classes. The 2-Year Law Education Fails to Take Off 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z If you lop off the hero’s journey at the films’ core and leave just its cowboy shoot-o-ramas, then I’d argue yes. This Is the Next-Best Thing to Being in Star Wars 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Sean Bean managed to get through the first season of "Legends" without getting his head lopped off, and now he's back in new episodes of the espionage drama. TV This Week Nov. 1 - 7: 'The 49th Annual CMA Awards' on ABC 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the face of low bar passage rates, the school lopped off its lowest 25 percent of students and recruited those with strong grade point averages and admissions test scores. Study Cites Lower Standards in Law School Admissions 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Casserly cautioned against an arbitrary limit, saying he is concerned that states would indiscriminately lop off tests to meet a federal testing cap. Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z In December, his ships reached Hispaniola – the island that now hosts Haiti and the Dominican Republic – where he forced the natives to provide him gold; those who didn’t had their hands lopped off. Christopher Columbus was a lost sadist. There shouldn't be a holiday in his name | James Nevius 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z I’m drawn to the colors of fading blooms, which gardeners lop off all too soon. A Bouquet Inspired by a Morris Louis Canvas 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z I had it all lopped off into a pixie cut and dyed purple-black. 'Shaving my head led to my first orgasm': writers on their lives in hair 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Technically, the body part in question is Wood’s lower leg, lopped off a few inches below the knee, but “foot” somehow sounds funnier, even though, as Wood’s mother notes, “the tale was born of tragedy.” ‘Finders Keepers’ looks at the legal dispute over a severed leg 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Green 4 does not mean lop off four lines at the bottom, I tell them. The Art of Omission 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z How else will they be able to break into Cardinal MacNamara’s cathedral manse, badger him for the Occido Lumen and lop off his infected head before he gives away the book’s location to the Master? 'The Strain' recap: Kelly and the Feelers attack in 'Intruders' 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z CVX -4.89 % , reported their worst profits from pumping oil and natural gas in more than a decade as low crude prices lopped off billions of dollars from their quarterly haul. Pain Worsens for Oil Giants Exxon and Chevron 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z With his razor-sharp saber he lopped off his superior’s head. The Gory Way Japanese Generals Ended Their Battle on Okinawa 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z A second, whose hands have been lopped off, gestures with gory stumps. A Papal Message That Spares No One 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z He may be less sentimental than Mr Jain when it comes to lopping off bits of the investment bank, which is one way to strengthen Deutsche’s balance-sheet without tapping shareholders for more money. In hole, still digging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Ohio had 35 days of early voting until he signed a law last year lopping off a week. GOP says Clinton dividing Americans over voting rights 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Russia is using military force to lop off parts of a neighbor’s territory. Samantha Power to Grads: Start Changing the World By 'Acting As If' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z A tree trimmer with a chain saw moved up and down the trunk of the London plane in a bucket one recent afternoon, lopping off rotted branches and pruning boughs hovering over the sidewalk. Fewer Limbs but Healthier Trees as New York’s Parks Budget Rebounds 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z This time, it lopped off a full percentage point, its largest cut since late 2008, the nadir of the global financial crisis. Skyward march 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, GE, the longest-lasting conglomerate, is shrinking by lopping off its financial arm. A zeal for deals 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Or perhaps just the most recent 2,000 years will get lopped off if lead residue becomes a marker. Nuclear Blasts May Prove Best Marker of Humanity's Geologic Record [In Photos] 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Women lop off a few years from their age; men a few pounds from their weight. The Arrival of the Wearable Dating App He said he believed that the new structure was a “huge improvement” over the warehouse, which, he added, “lopped off a lot more of the Brooklyn Bridge.” By Blocking View of the Brooklyn Bridge, a Building Incites a Battle 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z And your fingers would get lopped off like so many pork sausages? New 'Star Wars' lightsabers have some technical problems, experts say 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Hell, we lop off fingers for stupid tweets! Five undeniable truths we learned from the Ted Bishop Affair: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z You lop off limbs and heads with your katana with feverish abandon. 'Shadow Warrior' Review Part One: How Lo Wang Can You Go? (PS4) 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z With the first two months of the new season already taped, he decided to lop off the 'stache while the show is on another brief hiatus. Alex Trebek (and mustache) return for 31st season as 'Jeopardy!' host 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Thus, the larger 4 Series coupe is essentially the 3 Series sedan with two doors lopped off. BMW reveals all-new 2 Series convertibles 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In addition, jeanswear retailer Guess also plans to lop off 50 of its 488 stores in North America by the end of the current fiscal year. By 2020, Your Local Mall Could Look Very Different 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, Mr. Bolton — whose sea-otter mustache has come down a bit in recent years — famously said that several floors of the United Nations headquarters could be lopped off without being missed. Situation in Iraq Gives Bush Team Members Chance to Second-Guess 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And in the mid-2000s, in a controversial move, the Remi Companies, a developer, proposed lopping off the smokestacks in favor of an apartment tower. Converting a Run-Down Yonkers Power Plant Into an Arts Complex 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z But for now, the researchers advise salon goers to load up on sunscreen or wear UV-blocking gloves with the fingertips lopped off before going under the lamp. Some Nail Salon Dryers Bombard Skin With UV 2014-05-07T00:35:00Z “We may have to start lopping off services that are not economically rewarding,” said Doug Patten, Phoebe’s chief medical officer. In rural Georgia, federal health insurance marketplace proves unaffordable to many 2014-02-01T22:37:29Z They then lopped off the crowns topping the fence surrounding the park and headed to Federal Hall to read the Declaration of Independence. Wall Street: A history of occupation 2013-09-17T19:56:00Z Many say it dispenses his $70M estate in a clumsy and ill-advised way that lops off $30M first for the IRS. Key Lessons From James Gandolfini's Will 2013-07-21T01:50:00Z The former Enron chief executive has reached a deal with the Justice Department to lop off as much as a decade off his prison sentence, to 14 years, according to a court filing on Wednesday. DealBook: Enron’s Skilling Strikes Deal for Shorter Sentence 2013-05-08T18:54:45Z How aggressively we deal with cancer hinges in part on age and whether the disease threatens to truncate a life dramatically or merely lop off some years in the final decade or two. Cancer hasn’t dimmed my mother’s upbeat attitude. How far can optimism take her? 2013-04-01T20:55:02Z The U.S. military is in the process of making tough decisions due to mandatory budget from sequestration went into effect March 1 and could lop off $46 billion of Pentagon spending this fiscal year. Insight: Expensive F-35 fighter at risk of budget "death spiral" 2013-03-15T20:12:09Z Free extras can lop off the waiting time by five minutes—but only the last five minutes. Review: Game of Thrones Ascent 2013-03-14T16:43:18Z Congress said a certain, roughly equivalent, amount had to be lopped off thousands of programs instead of making program-by-program choices. Analysis: The big U.S. budget cuts: Will the bite match the bark? 2013-03-01T06:03:13Z Last year, Governor Scott and the state legislature lopped off another $300 million. Florida May Reduce Tuition for Select Majors 2012-12-09T23:07:30Z If drug dealers were ruining urban America, he would ask a judge or law professor, what’s wrong with the Saudi solution of lopping off their hands? Op-Ed Contributor: Punch Sulzberger and His Times 2012-10-01T02:13:09Z If no agreement could be reached, the mandatory cuts of sequestration would then kick in at the start of 2013, lopping off $1.2 trillion more in cuts, split between national security and domestic programs. Could Sequestration Harm U.S. Military Power? 2012-09-24T18:35:36Z Subsidiaries are being lopped off and sold at fire-sale prices to more agile competitors, almost certainly on orders from the Kremlin. Cumbersome Gazprom losing its clout 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z For slacks, I buy 31 by 30 off the rack and take them to a girl in town who lops off five inches and tapers the legs. It's A Tough Game For Everyone: Brian Haack 2012-09-12T04:00:00Z Susskind and his colleagues took the tree of parallel universes, lopped off some of its branches, and figured out how it would deform the p-adics. How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can't Just Go 1, 2, 3, ... 2012-08-06T22:15:04.737Z With a few exceptions – such as the now-discounted Samsung Galaxy Tabs – the 7-inch tablet range was characterized by mediocrity – cheap, resistive touchscreens, tiny batteries, versions of Android designed for phones with chunks inexpertly lopped off. Seven Inches, Four Months, A Number One Sales Target: How Asus Built The Nexus 7 2012-08-06T16:44:21Z She cracked jokes and tracked down a woman in Brooklyn who would lop off Melissa’s dark brown hair and fashion it into a wig. My Sister, My Surrogate: After Battling Cancer, One Woman Receives the Ultimate Mother's Day Gift 2012-05-09T12:06:28Z The person, therefore, who had undertaken the task of reducing it should take care to begin at the remotest provinces, and not till after they were lopped off cut up the central portion. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z If Apple lopped off the home button, it would allow the company to make a device that was considerably smaller, without affecting the size of its beautiful screen. Bits Blog: Does the iPad Have One Button Too Many? 2012-04-02T14:55:00Z To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Gradually they were breaking the organization, lopping off a branch here and there, but the peace of the future depended upon getting a grip on the spine of the cobra himself. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The following afternoon I landed to examine the Tower Rock, a very conspicuous object, on the south side of this harbour, having the appearance of an enormous dead tree with its branches lopped off. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z A torrent of water was at once directed into the window, while a second stream splashed down upon the tree and made a watery shield for the fireman, who went on lopping off the limbs. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z With their hatchets they lopped off the branches; they bound the trunks together with leathern thongs taken from the mules, and with tendrils of creepers from the jungle. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z It endured centuries of nasty hurricanes, including one in 1925 that lopped off 40 feet from the top. Disbelief Still as Florida Reacts to Burning of 3,500-Year-Old Tree 2012-01-21T03:00:12Z It is well, certainly, now and then, to lop off some rank, disorderly shoots of licentiousness, that will sometimes appear, upon Liberty Tree. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The trunk of a great tree overthrown in the last year's autumnal gales, with some of its boughs lopped off, lay on the grass at the edge of the avenue. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Death in those few months was busy lopping off the crowned heads of Europe, as if to clear the scene for two great figures. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z One of the chief forms of mourning for the dead was to lop off the little finger of one of the hands. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The sickle, tired of encountering obstacles, had lopped off one of the clenched hands at a blow. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z The trees are felled, the branches lopped off, and the trunks stripped of their bark, which is kept and applied to many useful purposes. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z These firms are steadily becoming primarily marketing agencies and brands: they are lopping off the expertise that is needed to make anything anymore. Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit Of Profits Kills Innovation And The US Economy 2011-11-18T16:26:00Z The share decline on Thursday was the biggest daily fall in more than three years and lopped off around $1 billion from the company's market value. UPDATE 6-LG plans $945 mln share sale to prop up smartphones 2011-11-03T10:33:53Z It's lopped off nearly 2 billion euros in annual spending under Viehbacher, and he just announced plans to cut another 2 billion euros by 2015. 3 years in, Sanofi CEO has transformed drugmaker 2011-10-28T13:16:20Z Bernard, too, lopped off races at tracks where attendance lagged, including at Watkins Glen, N.Y., and restored a race at Belle Isle in Detroit. A Driver?s Death Has Raised Questions About IndyCar?s Leader 2011-10-22T19:58:18Z Their thinner branches were lopped off, the thicker ones cut and trimmed with sharp points towards the front. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z But they balk when asked to name specific programs to downsize or lop off. The Hidden Utility of Ron Paul’s Balanced-Budget Plan: View 2011-10-19T00:28:02Z No doubt the wicked children lop off their own hands in order to cast a slur upon “the benevolent and philanthropic enterprise of the Congo.” The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z If we do so in speaking, surely we may lop off the many vowels and the consonants and speak, conversationally—on several tones. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z We lopped off some of the branches and burnt off the rest, but then found that the trunks were too heavy for us to drag, even though it was downhill. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z They might lop off a few of the branches; but science, a knowledge of physiology alone, is capable of laying the axe at the root of the tree.—What is digestion, Ellinora? Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Legislatures in Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia also lopped off advanced-voting time. With 2012 elections approaching, Republican-controlled state legislatures rewrite voting rules 2011-09-19T08:44:53Z On this day dignified and confident executives wriggled and wilted like tardy schoolboys under his grilling, and official heads were lopped off with a few sharp words. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z There were rumours rife concerning the summer campaign, and how the British had a plan to behead our new United States by lopping off all New England. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z He was carried below, and the surgeon made short work in lopping off the limb. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z “Now, Gentlemen, how much shall we say for this Chip, which I lopped off when I was leaving Hawarden—when I was ‘cutting my stick,’ in fact.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z These populations were to the Christian Church like a cankered limb, the lopping off of which may have been ordained by an all-wise Providence for the salvation of what was yet sound in the body.—H. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The three main alternatives—fluorescents, LEDs, and a new technology called electron-stimulated luminescence—all emit light by causing a phosphor to glow at certain wavelengths, lopping off the tail. How Optical Illusions Can Build a Better Bulb 2011-08-18T23:45:05.210Z On Thursday, crews methodically picked their way through hundreds of acres of dense underbrush — lopping off oil-stained plants and tree branches with hand clippers and then hauling the material away in plastic bags. Exxon Mobil says efforts to clean up Yellowstone River after oil spill will last into fall 2011-08-18T20:40:09Z “Believe me, as Joe says, the fellow is one of those fungi attached to society that would much better be lopped off than allowed to develop and spread their vile spawn about.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z Here is another power, long used, and now lopped off. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z The trees were again brought round to their former position, and the limbs by which themselves had gained entrance lopped off. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z Paddling up with caution, they lopped off one of its arms. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z This syrup is obtained by cutting down the tree, and lopping off its crown of leaves, when the sap flows from the wound, and is carefully collected. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z But when animals learn, those excess limbs get lopped off until only a few critical connections remain. 'Language Protein' May Help Build Brain Circuits 2011-07-07T22:00:00Z And this power, too, thus lopped off from the Constitution, is evidently not within the power of any of the individual States. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z To lop off the surplus population with the sword is a benefit. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z He spared their lives, but lopped off their legs and arms, that in less than a quarter of an hour there was not one in the company but had lost a limb. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z It was merely the top of a palm tree lopped off and forced into the ground. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z An’ awful smart—an’ pretty before they lopped off their curls at the orphanage. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z After all, while antitrust action would lop off AT&T’s aspirations, there’s no particular reason why Sprint should get any windfall business. To Stimulate Economy, End Predatory Abuse Of Antitrust 2011-06-08T16:57:58Z Coal companies lop off mountaintops, hydraulic fracturing for natural gas threatens supplies, and oil dependence undermines the nation’s energy security. Coming Clean about Nuclear Power 2011-05-23T13:15:00.303Z The most immediate effect has been on companies that sell goods in Japan, like Coca-Cola and Gap, which said the events there had lopped off a few cents from earnings per share. Japan?s Crises Make a Dent in the Bottom Line 2011-04-28T23:55:49Z Portland’s mascot, Timber Joey, uses a chainsaw to lop off a piece of a log after the team scores at Jeld-Wen Field. Goal: Expansion Timbers Take Their Cuts 2011-04-20T02:26:08Z So, accordingly, he pulled up a fir tree, and, after lopping off the roots and branches, made a walking-stick of it, and set out on his way to Oonagh. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z This is proved by making sections in various directions, and by finding that in some instances as much as two-thirds of the wing may be lopped off without materially impairing the power of flight.”—Trans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z We plant a high fir with the branches lopped off, the top of which is covered with a cone of iron. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The poisonous tree of evil is not to be destroyed, by here and there lopping off a branch. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Senate Democrats have reportedly countered with up to $20 billion, on top of the $10 billion the two sides lopped off the budget in the past two short-term continuing resolutions. With a Shutdown Looming, Budget Bickering Intensifies 2011-03-28T09:45:00Z What! and must one let this perennial balsam-plant, which continually perfumes the inner man, be plucked up or lopped off? Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z With Bonny's hatchet Alaric next lopped off the branches from the lower side of a thick-growing hemlock and wove them among those that were left, so as to form a wind-break. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z We observed a great number of trees, in different places, whose branches had been lopped off to the tops. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I 2011-03-24T02:00:11.430Z "On the fallen tree trunk, with the sahib's moonstone glittering on its forefinger, was the small hand of a woman that had been lopped off above the wrist, and which still dripped blood." The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z One longs to verify in his own experience that story about walking on the leaves,—not to speak of lopping off a flower or two to furnish one’s study withal. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Does not the corrupt Minister lop off our Privileges and fleece us of our Money? Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z We think these presumptuous philosophers had best compare it in its healthy state with what it is now, and supply deficiencies or lop off excrescencies, as the comparison may suggest. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Sometimes it was filled with gloom and shadows, and the tattered masonry of the Cloth Hall, lopped off at the top, stood black as granite above its desolate boulder-strewn square. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Labor strife last marred an NFL season in 1987, when a 24-day players strike led owners to use replacement players for three games and one game was lopped off the schedule. Billionaires vs Millionaires row could shut down NFL 2011-03-03T00:13:11Z The most successful surgeon was the one who could lop off a limb quickest. A Conversation With Emery N. Brown: Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep 2011-02-28T22:40:26Z This creed has obtained for the latter faction the opprobrious epithet of Kárra Haïmanót, “the Knife of the Faith,” in allusion to their having lopped off an acknowledged scriptural truth. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z This immigration will certainly continue and will actually contribute to the destruction of the race, as it were by steadily lopping off the extreme boughs of the tree. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z If the southern third of Sudan is lopped off, with it goes most of Sudan’s oil. In Sudan, a Colonial Curse Comes Up for a Vote 2011-01-08T20:35:34Z Heaven, then, means the lopping off of all those menaces, and the consequent full appreciation of God in knowledge and love. The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul 2011-01-06T03:00:50.440Z Five years later, doctors in Mumbai lopped off his tongue to halt the cancer spreading through his mouth. In India, an Epidemic of Oral Cancer 2010-12-29T16:00:00Z Neither is any use made of the resin or berries; but twigs lopped off the melancholy trees that overshadow the cemetery, are often strewn upon the corpse before the grave is filled up. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Their top-knots of bayonetlike leaves having been lopped off, they are now in process of desiccation, by huge fires that have been kindled around them. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z If you started out with 140 characters, some will get lopped off at the end to make room for these additions. 5 Secrets of Highly Effective Twitter Users 2010-08-16T07:28:00Z But it's too bad — because there is plenty of money to be saved by lopping off the well-marbled fat that clings to the $700 billion the U.S. spends annually on national security. Military Spending: Why the Defense Budget Should Be Cut 2010-02-24T09:30:00Z There have been so many heads lopped off at the Pentagon since Gates took over in 2006 it's almost as if he has launched a second French Revolution. 2010-02-17T09:00:00Z Some said, "Others lopped off the branches of the papistry, but he strikes at the root to destroy the whole." John Knox Then we let it wind along by the brook, lopping off dead branches which were in the way, and removing one or two small trees. The Idyl of Twin Fires This arrangement suited Hector, and he did his part faithfully, lopping off the branches so that the trunk itself could be cut up into suitable lengths. Ti-Ti-Pu A Boy of Red River Another half-hour sufficed to lop off all the branches below this point, and the trunk was then ready for launching. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War The latter assumes the drastic lopping off of numerous personal wants. Underground Man Then rubbing it all out except one straight line, “Now they have lopped off the branches and turned it into a broomstick and that is protestantism.” The Trembling of the Veil What is the use of lopping off the twigs, when the trunk and main branches are unscathed? Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Mackenzie, on his return from the sea by this route, observed many trees having their upper branches lopped off by the Esquimaux, and we saw several such trees in the course of the day. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea An arm severed from the body, a branch lopped off the tree, is the true symbol of the selfish man. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II The tree-trunks pierced by balls, the boughs lopped off by shells, the strips of timber cut to pieces by artillery and musketry fire, showed how desperate the struggle on that side had been. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 I hate convention when it lops off such hours as these like a grudging old Procrustes. Shadows of Flames A Novel He was in the habit of walking about with a knife in his hand, and lopping off the superfluous branches by the roadside. Edelweiss A Story “Take off that branch,” said the knight, pointing to an overhanging bough; and it was solemnly lopped off. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One Bella thought to herself,—For years and years this tree has been rooting itself here and thriving, and no tempest can wrench it away and lop off its boughs. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Druga related to Eos all the events that had transpired since the lopping off of Dionaea's head. Daughter of the Night And many tried also to lop off boughs from the fig-tree, but they were found the second night replaced by a perfect new growth with fully ripe fruit. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series Therefore, we pronounce you to be a rotten limb, and as such to be lopped off from the Church. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Because, as to that, Lord Culduff said there never yet grew a tree where there was n't a branch or two might be lopped off with advantage. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Come tempest, come lightning and thunder, come beating rain, neither shall you uproot me, nor lop off my boughs! Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Then they lopped off the branches and cut off the top, and left it in the sun to dry out as much as possible before attacking it with their boat-building tools. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon Every year in the early spring, in August, very many are cut down, and when the trunk is lying on the ground the crown of leaves is lopped off. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Some men instantly hopped upon the fallen giant and started lopping off the branches, while the other men began work on the next tree in the road. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest I pray He may lop off every unfruitful branch of my life—honors, possessions—till nothing is left but Rosemont, the lowly work He called me to, Himself! John March, Southerner After the body had hung half an hour, the hangman cut it down, stripped it, lopped off the head, threw the heart into a fire, and divided the body into four parts. Old and New London Volume I A long and cruel combat ensued, and at last Tristrem lopped off one of the giant’s feet. Legends & Romances of Brittany The Russians would fain lop off eastern Galicia. My Three Years in America No sooner was it down than a dozen men jumped over and lopped off boughs until it looked like a telegraph pole. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest “This was,” says Blackwall, another of the classical flock, “like lopping off a man’s limb, and then putting him upon running races.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The tree grew much as it would, for there was no one to lop off a branch here, to bend one there, or to graft upon this stem a shoot from some other variety. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching Branches were here and there lopped off and cast aside, and the ground had the marks of human footsteps. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 First, standing on a lower branch, you lopped off all the side shoots as high as you could reach. Robinetta The old oaks have a gnarled and stunted appearance, tradition ascribing it to the woodsmen having lopped off all the leading shoots when their mistress perished. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel They were bundled away in a corner, behind the central shrine—stone gods, mere headless stumps; wooden gods with limbs lopped off; clay gods, mere lumps of mud; mutilated and neglected, worn-out old gods. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India I've lopped a few branches off that rascal in my time, and if I have any luck I'll lop off a few more at this meeting.... Old Man Curry Race Track Stories Jim and I will get some axes and lop off these branches that forced the door in and prop it shut the best way we can. Dorothy's House Party By this time Moise had lopped off all the branches of the tree except the top ones, which stood out like an umbrella. The Young Alaskans on the Trail "Some of the tree-tops by the road have been lopped off," replied Jack. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies Primrose, I think, lops off a bit of self-conceit and belief in the divine right of kings, at every interview. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia In some places the trees have been cut down to form an abatis, an obstruction, the limbs lopped off and interlocked. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field “He who lops off vine tendrils, and cuts reeds?” Hebrew Literature When they had been chosen, David had to shinny up them to lop off their branches. David and the Phoenix The end attached to the suspension-thread is slightly conical; the other is lopped off abruptly and the section is hollowed into a circular mouth. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles He began to rescind all motions for speeding and delaying the hearing of causes besides the ordinary rule of court; and this lopped off a limb of the motion practice. A Book About Lawyers You don't kill a flourishing plant—in this case an Upas Tree—by lopping off a handful of leaves. Revenge Quick as a flash came back the rejoinder, "Just lop off the last syllable and it is dun." A Portrait of Old George Town I'll just lop off a little limb on one side, and see the effect. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Therefore, we pronounce you to be a rotten limb, and, as such, to be lopped off from the Church. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 With a few strokes of the axe, Charley lopped off all the branches save one close to the small end of the trunk. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades The gusts lop off puffy clouds of mist which dissipate in air. The Book of the National Parks After the branches were lopped off, the trunks looked so slender and bare, that they could scarcely be recognized. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Their tongues seem quite unfitted for the pronunciation of the Spanish language, which many of them render unintelligible by transposing letters and lopping off syllables. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests And what if one or more of these be cut off, if such lopping off of some few branches only throws back into others the self-life to develop more vigorously in them? George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God This age-limit lops off from both ends of human existence a certain proportion of the characters that are available for filling up the canvas of the social novelist at home. Studies in Literature and History The only thing that annoys the honest mob is that old Louis will not cut throats and lop off heads, and that Wellington will not blow up bridges and monuments, and plunder palaces and galleries. Washington Irving All day long, day after day, week after week, they chop down such trees as are large enough to cut, lop off the branches and haul the logs to the nearest water. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls As soon as the cabeza, or cluster of fruit, is cut, the whole branch is immediately lopped off, in order to facilitate the shooting of the fresh sprouts. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests This I did, afterward lopping off all the branches to within about six inches of the trunk—the stumps to serve as rungs or steps. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Should he succeed, he would only lop off superfluous branches, not hew down the main trunk. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is like a piece of dead wood in a tree, and is better lopped off. American Sketches 1908 All that he is required to do is to climb a tree in the jungle and lop off a régime. An African Adventure To lop off the branches and bark it occupied but a short time, and then, all three placing it on their shoulders, they carried it up the hill. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers In place of tents, their hand axes lopped off a brush shelter in short order. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series He was cruel beyond measure—if the grand seignior can ever be so called, who is taught that he may lop off a score of heads each day 'for divine inspiration.' The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy There's no sense in lopping off a few branches even of deadwood. Jack O' Judgment Then the boughs were lopped off and the cattle could get at the browse. Woodcraft The old method in which the limb was lopped off by one sweep, all the tissues being divided at the same level, might be called the true circular. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Overhanging boughs of trees, growing outside the channel, had to be lopped off. From Fort Henry to Corinth Some carried felled saplings with the branches lopped off short, the purpose of which was plain. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada He has lopped off some of the branches. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Ah, my dear Mr. Hosmer, the world is certainly to-day not prepared to stand the lopping off and wrenching away of old traditions. At Fault Was it not, like all the rest, maimed, lopped off ungainly, docked? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance “He means wedges,” thought Joseph, and at once lopping off a thick branch, shaped out several; the black, in spite of the pain he was suffering, watching him with evident satisfaction. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading It's almost as if some part of us had been lopped off, isn't it? General Max Shorter The Delawares, seizing their tomahawks, commenced hacking at the pines, while others dragged forward the fallen trees, lopping off their branches with the keen scalping-knife. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire But the argument is simplified by lopping off the greater part of the premise. Creative Unity Johnny seized this as a favourable moment for a sally, and rushed forth cutlass in hand, having adopted the discreet resolution of disabling them, by lopping off those formidable claws, before coming to close quarters. The Island Home With our own hands we have added to existence a train of hardships, and lopped off many a gratification. The Simple Life When he reaches it he steps to the side of the victim and with a large, sharp, long-bladed knife lops off the head of the criminal. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Another peculiar feature is that the branches lopped off for household fuel can, when barked, be used at once, without needing to be dried or seasoned. The Philippine Islands They saw they were fighting a hydra; for as fast as they lopped off heads in any direction, fresh ones sprang up in others. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death One arm of the conspiracy was thus lopped off at the first blow. The Reign of Mary Tudor Verily, the rotten branches will God lop off and cast them into hell-fire; for he is a good husbandman. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia The Lord was good I was lopping off wood And down fell from a tree. Quaint Epitaphs Life is cheap among them; a Moro thinks no more about lopping off anotherʼs head than he does about pulling a cocoanut from the palm-tree. The Philippine Islands Accordingly China has had province after province lopped off her, until one-half of her territory is now under Japanese, Russian, English and French control. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 But Peneleus, drawing his sharp sword, smote him upon the middle of the neck, and lopped off his head with its helmet to the ground, and the strong spear still remained in his eye. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Well, Ivan began to fight with him, and lopped off nine of his heads. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore I met with a check that broke my neck And so God lopped off me. Quaint Epitaphs He went on in this way for the five mornings, always conquering by the aid of his vine, and lopping off the heads of the vanquished giants. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends He must lop off, as so many incubi, the professional Negro office-seeker, the professional Negro office-holder, and the Negro politician who aspires to lead the race, for the revenue that is in it. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Somehow one feels no irresistible impulse to abridge one's functions and to depreciate one's importance by one's own act, to lop off one's own members, so to speak. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 Traversing the meadow with hasty strides, the bold sailor quickly reached the edge of the forest where he began to lop off several dead branches from the trees with his cutlass. Martin Rattler As soon as a tree falls, the beavers set to work industriously to lop off the branches, which, as well as the smaller trunks, they cut into lengths, according to their weight and thickness. The Dog Crusoe and his Master Perhaps he felt confident in the keen edge of his Damascene scimitar, and in the power of his arm to lop off even leonine heads. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale It was fortunate that his head also was not lopped off: had a singer asked it, instead of a dancer, it would have been. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It is easier to cut down an evil tree than to climb up and lop off it branches; besides the branches will grow again if the stock is left undisturbed. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View For this purpose they lopped off a number of branches from the surrounding trees, and formed an arbour. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar We had soon collected sufficient fuel to last us during the night, and then employed ourselves in cutting down some young trees and lopping off some boughs. With Axe and Rifle These pieces were very rough and jagged with the remains of the boughs which had been lopped off, so that they would be as easy to climb—almost—as a ladder. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze “I proposed lopping off the bad limb of our little party, so as to leave the rest free to hobble on.” Middy and Ensign Against one of the trees stood a ladder, and scattered all about under the trees were the limbs that had been lopped off, under his direction, the very day when he fell with apoplexy. The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories I knew I was to die, and I remembered the execution I had seen in that great enclosure, when with one whisk of the sword the executioner had lopped off head after head. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser Some branches were lopped off to make room for the cap-tent, and then it was also hauled up, and mounted. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family The branches were soon lopped off, after which they cut from the tall slender trunks four spars about ten feet in length to serve for sheers. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific And thus will you live anew like the tree whose dead branches are lopped off, only the flourishing ones being preserved, but here growth will be eternal. Brazilian Tales And as you journey, meditate and plan To lop off every head that blocks thy way, Or lacks in sympathy for thy great work. 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts Using his sword two-handed, Barrent lopped off vines; others grew in their place. The Status Civilization If we lop off two ciphers, the record is still bad enough. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure When any one of his limbs was lopped off, he had the power of restoring it; and when his head was cut off, he could take it up and replace it. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 For such reasons, after the great invasion of New York had failed, the British tried the plan of starting at the southern extremity of the Union and lopping off one state after another. The War of Independence Thus the Caisse Territoriale would be able to discharge its obligation to its loyal servants, to reward those who had shown devotion to its service and lop off those who were useless. The Nabob, Volume 1 As he fled down the hill he saw below an old oak tree whose first branches had been lopped off. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls The sharp edge of her young sufficiency had lopped off the right limb of his manhood. The Lovely Lady The sixth, having had his right hand lopped off, was sent back with no other answer to Salerno. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Of one man the head was crushed; of another the arm was lopped off; a third was hurled back with a gaping wound. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. “When we had the schooner up in the wind, the punt was bobbin’ in the lop off the quarter. Doctor Luke of the Labrador With the lopping off of the national churches from the parent stem, this energising force from a distant centre of life ceased. Mediaeval Socialism The pruning, which at the time cuts so into the life of the vine, lopping off great, rich branches, afterward is seen to have been the saving and enriching of the whole vine. Making the Most of Life He added that such as they were members that had been lopped off from the Church; and that by their shrewdness and political methods they were insinuating themselves into everything. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century They follow the advice given as early as 1730 by the author of The Natural History of Chocolate, when he says: "Cut or lop off the suckers." Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer A heresy always means lopping off a part of the truth and, therefore, ultimately a loss of liberty. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The boughs are at such junctures lopped off, and the flocks are fed on the leaves. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government They have become dead branches that must be lopped off. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 War, like the surgeon's knife, must often lop off much in order to save the whole. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals After her husband's death the widow decided that she would never marry again, and in order to seal irrevocably her vow, she seized a meat-chopper and lopped off half her finger on the spot. China and the Chinese Some of the malcontents were hanged, and in several cases their hands were lopped off before death. South America The justice of lopping off from government all matters not the common affairs of the citizens then becomes apparent. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum Then they returned to the valley, drew the fallen trees out, lopped off the branches, shaped the poles, dug holes, and got the uprights into position. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The latest French plan is to establish an independent Turkey from Adrianople to the Taurus Mountains, lopping off Syria, which will become a French protectorate, and Mesopotamia and Palestine, which will remain under British control. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean Distribute the tithe of your wealth in alms, for when the husbandman lops off the exuberant branches from the vine, it produces an increase of grapes.” Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers On him then was to devolve the office of an executioner, that of lopping off. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Many of Casembe's people appear with the ears cropped and hands lopped off: the present chief has been often guilty of this barbarity. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 He had to fell trees, to lop off the branches, and cut the trunks to proper length, then roll them with infinite effort to their proper place in the structure. Burned Bridges In short, you must excuse all my seeming omissions and commissions, and grant me more remission than St. Athanasius will to yourself, if you lop off a single shred of mystery from his pious puzzle. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals It was not until the sixteenth century that she apostatised, and was cut off from the stem, out of which she had sprung, as a rotten branch is lopped off from a healthy tree. The Purpose of the Papacy Abattis are tops and large limbs of trees arranged along the glacis of a work; the ends of the branches are lopped off and sharpened. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Then he lopped off the lower branches of two spruce trees that stood a convenient distance apart, and laid the pole on a supporting limb of each tree, about four feet from the ground. Troop One of the Labrador Much of his pedantry was now lopped off, it is true, because the pride of his station prevented him from entering into discussions with the people. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Having cut it as close to the root as possible, we then lopped off the branches, and put it up the chimney to season. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three I gave the countersign, "The crest is lopped off." The Hollow Land Across these, the boughs that are lopped off themselves, or smaller trees felled for the purpose, are laid close together, and over all a sufficient covering of earth. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America Many of its branches withered or were ruthlessly lopped off, but its roots were too firmly and too deeply embedded in the soil to be fatally injured. India, Old and New Upon which, to have done with her, in their terror of infection, they had lopped off the head, which lay pitiably dissevered from the trunk. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Indeed, Chastisement moves on earth, piercing and cutting and afflicting and lopping off and dividing and striking and slaying and rushing against its victims. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Father Ilwin had been sent by the Bishop to build a new church, and that on a slice of Father Tom's territory, which the Bishop lopped off to form a new parish. The City and the World and Other Stories Particularly the tale I had related of having seen dead Chinamen in heaps with their heads lopped off. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Meanwhile, Corporal Dudley had drawn his saber and was engaged in leisurely lopping off the dead branches of a fallen tree. The Littlest Rebel As he came to each tree, he used the hatchet to make a fresh blaze, while any branch that obstructed the view between the blazed trees was lopped off. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Arms lopped off from trunks formed its foremost of snakes. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 They should not lop off the branches, but lay the axe to the root. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 It is not the policy of Europe to suffer the extinction of any power, but only to lop off, or prevent its dangerous encrease. A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up If not, I shall cut you off from the succession as one lops off a dead branch. The Empire of Russia When the tree is about two years old the top branches are lopped off for the purpose of throwing the sap into the bean. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Invulnerable arms, lopped off from human bodies, and looking like the tusks of elephants, jumped up and writhed and moved furiously about. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 If an establishment is troublesome to him, he lops off at a stroke just as much of it as he chooses. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) If I could have had my choice last night, whether to have the Boy lopped off my life, or to lose a hand, the probabilities are that I would have sacrificed the hand. The Princess Passes To recover a lost Line, make a drag of a small bushy tree with plenty of branches, that are so lopped off as to leave spikes on the trunk. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries It is also found desirable to limit the height of the plant by lopping off the top to increase the produce, and facilitate the collecting it, and fresh sprouts in abundance are the certain consequence. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Similarly, the mighty Bhurishrava, with one of his arms lopped off and while observant of the Praya vow, was caused to be slain by thee through the agency of the high-souled Satyaki. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The various border states of Russia were thus quietly lopped off without even the foreknowledge, much less the assent, of the patient, and without any pretense at plebiscites. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Doug put the blanket over her again and, with hands like frozen clods, jerked out his sheath ax and with infinite difficulty lopped off a cedar bough and got a fire to going. Judith of the Godless Valley This is made by cutting down a forked tree, lopping off its branches, and shaping it a little with an axe. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries It is the breaking up of home-ties and communion, a separation from home scenes, a lopping off from the parent vine, an engrafting into a strange vine, and alas! too often, into a degenerate vine. The Christian Home And he cut off some at the middle, and lopped off the ears of others, and struck others on the shoulders, and pressed down the heads of some into their trunks. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 An interval follows, then an ear is lopped off, and so the devilish work goes on with long pauses. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Sometimes, also, he would lop off twigs with it, or small branches for mending his wattled fences, or would shape stakes with it for his garden paling. The Talking Beasts The branches lopped off should be cut up into short lengths, and piled between the coffee trees. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Then the uncertainties were lopped off, the building took shape, touch after touch was added. Waysiders There, those wives of that warrior, all possessed of slender waists, are placing upon their laps the lopped off arm of their lord and weeping bitterly! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Traversing the meadow with hasty strides, the bold sailor quickly reached the edge of the forest, where he began to lop off several dead branches from the trees with his cutlass. Martin Rattler The Tree replied: "I do good to mankind, but they requite me with evil, lopping off my branches and cutting me down." The Talking Beasts They will only lop off the branches, or at the most, only strike at the body of the corrupt tree, while the roots remain untouched and uninjured. The Revelation Explained On the present occasion, therefore, it has been endeavoured to lop off as many of its redundances as could be conveniently done without injury, yet leaving every circumstance of any interest or importance. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. The puissant Rama, the son of Jamadagni, filled with wrath, lopped off the arms of Arjuna and brought back, O monarch, his sire's calf which was wandering within the inner enclosures of the king's palace. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Indeed all the abuses that might hinder settlement or prevent agricultural development were carefully lopped off. Lord Elgin I felt sure my foot was lopped off, but it was only bruised on the ankle by a stone that some piece of shell must have kicked up. The Khaki Boys over the Top Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam Hitherto the enemy had been lopping off the branches of the tree whose leaves were for the healing of the nations; now the blow was made at the root. The Revelation Explained With the lopping off of the San Mateo end of the peninsula in 1856, one board of supervisors was substituted for the three that had spent $2,646,000 the year before. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment They are susceptible of pleasure and pain, and grow when cut or lopped off. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The lower branches of the tree were lopped off, a part of its trunk denuded of bark, and a broad arrow painted thereon with red paint. The New North When this unfortunate man was taken prisoner, his right hand was immediately nailed to his head, and the other lopped off like a twig. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa One set has been the root of a goodly tree: the other set is being lopped off, like the parasitic mistletoe. The Making of Religion In a little passion of self-reproach and mortification, she occasionally lopped off ugly shoots; but the root was still vigorous and lusty, and only grew the better for its petty pruning. Richard Vandermarck Others, in that vast ocean of battle, filled with rage mangled or cut or pierced or overthrew or lopped off or slew one another with battle-axes and short arrows and hooks and spears and lances. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Branches hung dead from trees, twigs had been lopped off by stray fragments, great trunks were split apart as if by lightning. A Volunteer Poilu Noticing stains of blood on the bed, he drew down the coverlet and saw that the girl was weltering in her gore, for one of her feet was lopped off. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul My dear," she said, "we have lopped off all our dead wood. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" Clouds of dust rose from the explosions; limbs of trees were lopped off by tornadoes of steel hail. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form The crop is more abundant than the harvest; the tree puts forth more branches than the axe can lop off. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 After a pause the doctor said: "It must be about as bad as having a limb lopped off." Tommy and Grizel I was three days in cutting it down and two more in lopping off the boughs, and reducing it to a piece of timber. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) This little saying of Mrs. Croly's has come back to me and been of use many times, and it has often enabled me to understand the benefit of lopping off dead wood and starting anew. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" Limbs are lopped off, eyes put out, heads slivered, and blood spilled like water; and there are scenes in dark towers and visions of clanking chains in terrific abundance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 But the spear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his sword lopped off his head as it bended in death.—Ossian, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook This vale is full of fine old trees; but in many places the farmers have spoilt their beauty by lopping off the lower branches because the grass will not grow under their wide-spreading foliage. A Cotswold Village Some felled trees, some lopped off the branches, and some, with oxen, dragged the logs into position. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The attempts to lop off excrescences are not, perhaps, always happy. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The sailors were soon at work hacking down the undergrowth and lopping off branches of trees. Jack Archer Every year in the early spring, in August, very many are cut down, and when the trunk is lying on the ground, the crown of leaves is lopped off. The Voyage of the Beagle However much The trunk be mangled, with the limbs lopped off, The soul withdrawn and taken from the limbs, Still lives the trunk and draws the vital air. On the Nature of Things And the one whose leg Lancelot had lopped off was so trampled underfoot of the knights that he had no life in him. The High History of the Holy Graal Incensed with anger thereat, the monarch ordered the tongues of these Confessors to be rooted out, and their eyes digged out, and likewise their hands and feet lopped off. Barlaam and Ioasaph I remember some of her phrases: "A bold and generous policy of social amelioration"; "The development of a civic conscience"; "A strong hand to lop off decaying branches from the trunk of the State." The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces And even the head, When from the warm and living trunk lopped off, Keeps on the ground the vital countenance And open eyes, until 't has rendered up All remnants of the soul. On the Nature of Things In the top of a tree was a boy lopping off branches with a hatchet, and below there were a few goats greedily eating the leaves. Down with the Cities Love, he thought, could never be anything to him but a living memory—a limb lopped off, but not gone from consciousness. Adam Bede This is where we lop off the small branches to grow perfect fruit later. The Harvester |
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