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"If you chaps have finished swopping snake yarns," said Jim, turning in his saddle, "there's Anglers' Bend."

From A Little Bush Maid by Bruce, Mary Grant

Speaking about it afterwards to a passel of boys over in the swopping ring, he said the experience, while dissapinting at the time, was worth a right smart to him subsequent.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

I don't imagine that it is a bad point to dissolve upon—at any rate, there is no swopping in such a crossing.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

The men outside Hegarty's, smoking and swopping yarns with the Schoolmaster, watched him go.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

The horse-dealer still stuck to his old courses—coping, swopping, swearing—likely to outlive them all.

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne