Galloping
['ɡæləpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallop
(a.) Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
Editor: Nettie
Examples
- Presently carriages with travellers began to leave the town, galloping away by the Ghent barrier. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Presently, a boy on a pony went galloping off to Mudbury, to the Doctor's house there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were the tracks of unshod ponies, three of them, and the ponies had been galloping. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I thought so the other day, when I met her galloping about, with her feathers blowing, and her thick dark hair about her ears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Certainly, said Worcester, galloping off, to avoid laughing out loud in the man's face. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And, just as he spoke, a breeze brought the faint sound of galloping horsemen towards them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The big gray horse was galloping through the pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The yelling and shouting, and whipping and galloping, of all parties interested, made it an exhilarating, exciting, and particularly boisterous race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Nettie