Cresting a hill, we saw six giraffe lope across an emerald basin.

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Centre partner Sonny Parker took the ball in his stride to lope through the Munster line and send Jon Vaughton haring towards the left corner.

BBC: Ospreys 21-25 Munster

Using a gentle cowboy lope and a saxophone that sounds more like captured breath than anything specifically musical, the singer crafts a lullaby for the whole world.

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But the hosts hit back immediately as Nick Robinson's inside pass tricked the Bath line to send brother Jamie through a hole, the centre treating supporting back-row Molitika with a perfect offload that saw the Tongan lope under the posts.

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