The street does all right for hoops. And if children can't be trusted in the streets, their mothers should keep them at home."
A child came bowling its hoop through the concourse of birds, and Ralph threw his last crumbs of bread into the bushes with a snort of impatience.
Had they both
hoops? Were they iron
hoops, or just wooden
hoops?
We took up the hoops, and began to drop them into the sockets placed for them.
Five minutes afterwards, George said, "Ah!" too, and threw his plate out on the bank; and, three minutes later than that, Montmorency gave the first sign of contentment he had exhibited since we had started, and rolled over on his side, and spread his legs out; and then I said, "Ah!" and bent my head back, and bumped it against one of the hoops, but I did not mind it.
"Never mind the
hoops. I have broken the ice with Sir Patrick."
The stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the
hoop and its feet are one continued piece with that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.
Suddenly the First and Foremost swung his brass
hoop and caught Guph around the neck with it.
Around her head she wore a
hoop of flame-red poppies.
The door of the room now flew open, and, after pushing in her
hoop sideways before her, entered Lady Bellaston, who having first made a very low courtesy to Mrs Fitzpatrick, and as low a one to Mr Jones, was ushered to the upper end of the room.
And to do the people justice, stern republicans as they had now become, they were well content that the old gentlewoman, in her
hoop petticoat and faded embroidery, should still haunt the palace of ruined pride and overthrown power, the symbol of a departed system, embodying a history in her person.
And they used to wear
hooped petticoats of such enormous size that it was quite a journey to walk round them."