Long, easy strides

Usage examples of lopes.

He arrived on a black horse, galloping up the driveway and then curbing the stallion so fast that it reared and twisted and Lopes, instead of being thrown off as ninety-nine out of a hundred other riders would have been, stayed calm and in control.

The „pupils” were his men, a ragged band with which Lopes had been ambushing the French columns that carried ammunition to the gunners who fought against the Portuguese troops still holding the bridge at Amarante.

Kate bridled when she heard Lopes wanted his men to stay at the house.

Still the French did not come and Manuel Lopes reckoned they were simply too busy to bother with Vila Real de Zedes.

Manuel Lopes and his captured partisans were taken to the church where they were forced to break up the altars, rails and images, then ordered to heap all the shattered timber in the center of the nave.

Senhor Lopes, in a letter to me, suggests that it means the upper portion of the canopy, "

A figure in black, quick as a coyote, lopes out through the shattered front door, looks up, raises a carbine.

Senhor Lopes, who has published these documents in the original Portuguese in a recent work,[4] writes in his introduction: "Nothing that we know of in any language can compare with them, whether for their historical importance or for the description given of the country, and especially of the capital, its products, customs, and the like.

Previous to the publication of these chronicles by Senhor Lopes we had nothing to guide us in this matter, save a few vague and unsatisfactory lines in the chronicle of the historian Firishtah.

Justice Lopes, who had tried vainly to persuade the Manchester Grand Jury to throw out the bill in the case of the brothers Habron, was the presiding judge.

Justice Lopes in summing up described as an "absolute surmise" the theory of the accidental discharge of the pistol.