Besides, there were the fowls to feed, and the crop to guard from the shy, bright-eyed, wild creatures, that already, Lopping out of the forest at dawn, had nibbled it down in places.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The poisonous tree of evil is not to be destroyed, by here and there Lopping off a branch.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
The yew, moreover, was thinned at intervals, but there was no cutting and Lopping the forward-thrusting, amusing humanity across the way.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions