"Tapster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your will, Betty?" said the minister of Dunse. "An unco uncanny mishap," replied the tapster's wife. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13 Issue 364 - 4 Apr 1829 • Various
... friend, I am no tapster, to say, Anon, anon, sir:[68] but leave you to molest me, goodman tawny-leaves, for fear (as the proverb says, leave is light) so I mow off all ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... excise of three guilders per tun, was imposed by Kieft in 1644, and is paid by the tapster alone, and not ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • Various
... the treacherous tapster, Thomas, Hangs a new angel ten doors from us, We hold it both a shame and sin To quit ...
— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi
... ballad-maker; a tapster; a drunkard; a rectified young man; a young nouice's new yonger wife; a common fidler; a broker; a iouiall good fellow; a humourist; a malepart yong upstart; a scold; a good wife, and a selfe-conceited ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... especial accommodation. The philosophers and economists thought, with Saunders McBullock, the Baron's bagpiper, that a 'feckless monk more or less was nae great subject for a clamjamphrey,' especially as 'the supply exceeded the demand;' while Malthouse, the tapster, was arguing to Dame Martin that a murder now and then was a seasonable check to population, without which the isle of Sheppey would in time be devoured, like a mouldy cheese, by inhabitants of its own producing. Meanwhile the Baron ate his oysters and ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various |
