hops

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noun twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer

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She hops from the saddle as the horse becomes dragon, becomes sphinx, becomes phoenix bursting to flame.

Journaling: The Angel of Fiction « Looking for Roots 2010
Minutes later, the captain hops onto Panamanian soil and ties the boat to a banana plant.

The Snatchback 2009
Minutes later, the captain hops onto Panamanian soil and ties the boat to a banana plant.

The Snatchback 2009
We'll also buy hops from the brewing supply store.

Boing Boing 2008
* Chodin hops off the chairlift - skis in front, poles to his side: textbook form*

‘MEET BILL’ TRAILER 2008
Standing at the bridge, Yin hops over the rails onto the water below.

Darker than Black ep 24 « Undercover 2007
On his knees, he reads a page, scanning his elegant handwriting, his memory racing back in hops, skips and jumps to the timestamped date.

fiction: four-letter words Dean Francis Alfar 2005
Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" was the first to fall, a ludicrous farrago about the search for eternal life that hops from the Spanish Inquisition to the present and into the future.

Movies: The Good, the Bad, The Hilariously Gross 2007
It was a man, and he was running in short hops, as if he were using a stick or cane to assist him in covering ground rapidly.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
They have to calculate a path in short hops, and take us through a step at a time.

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton 1934