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Definition of Trooped
1. troop [v] - See also: troop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trooped
Literary usage of Trooped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Helena: The Historic Island from Its Discovery to the Present Date by E. L. Jackson (1905)
"She made a short speech on delivering them, and they were then trooped down the
front of the line attended by the guard, who took their appointed stations, ..."
2. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1851)
"... nearly all Germans, trooped in with ringing spurs and rattling sabres.
The general said a tew words to them in the German language, the French of which ..."
3. Graded French Method by William Frederic Giese (1913)
"At the sight of all that multitude that had trooped to the theater, ... I trooped
to it with the other imbeciles! At the sight of that multitude which had ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1887)
"Gone, too, was the crowd of sable retainers — slaves, the old house would have
called them — that once trooped in and out, laden with close- covered ..."
5. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"Day after day and all through the night, in rain and mud and cold, in those drear
October days of 1914, they trooped on with no place to go, without hope, ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1860)
"Raising their shaggy fronts, these creatures still glared, as before, without
fear at the intruders; they even trooped upward undaunted from the sheep-track ..."
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