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Tag Name "Lopped" (7)

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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
Jonathan Swift
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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
Swami Vivekananda
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
Andrew Johnson
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.
Hal Porter
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Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.
Jean-Paul Marat
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To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.
Lord Chesterfield
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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.
C. S. Lewis