Crossword-Solution: LOPPING 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

These filed in about nine o’clock, their vermiculated horns lopping gracefully on each side of their cheeks in geometrically perfect spirals, a small pink and white ear nestling under each horn.

Our preparations complete, we were sprawling on the lawn; the staidest and most self respecting of the rabbits had been let loose to grace the feast, and was lopping demurely about the grass, selecting the juiciest plantains; while Selina, as the eldest lady present, was toying, in her affected feminine way, with the first full tumbler, daintily fishing for bits of broken cork.

The situation of the house, prejudicial to humanity, was a stimulus to vegetation, on which account an endless shearing of the heavy-armed ivy was necessary, and a continual lopping of trees and shrubs.

Final success and triumph come largely by _this_ kind of condensation and concentration, and the stern and severe lopping off of the indulgence of the _egotistical_ genius, which is human discipline, and the best exponent of the doctrine of unity also.

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.