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Definition of Rooping
1. roop [v] - See also: roop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooping
Literary usage of Rooping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1801)
"Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows And helps another creature's wants and
woes. Say, will the falcon, rooping from above, Smit with her varying ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"... pale and rooping, yet observant of all lhat passed. She was (tended by a
brilliant galaxy of the ladies of her court. The emperor was stern and silent, ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1877)
"On the top of a mountain I stand, With a crown of red gold in my hand, Wild Moors
come rooping over the lea, O how from their fury shall I flee, flee, flee? ..."
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