opsit

• How often do you opsit (sit up at night) with Uncle Croft's pretty girl, eh? —  Jess
• It was a most curious and polyglot conversation Young Allan," he said, "and you, daughter Marie, I have heard stories concerning you that, although I never gave you leave to 'opsit'" (that is, to sit up alone at night with candles, according to the Boer fashion between those who are courting), "you have been making love to each other That is true, mynheer," I said. —  Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain
• "Then you don't want to _opsit_ with him?" —  Swallow: a tale of the great trek
• His winders looked right opsit Newgit, and many and many dozen chaps has he seen hanging there. —  The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
• You know well that he is always troubling me, bringing me presents of flowers, and asking me to _opsit_ with him and what not. " —  Swallow: a tale of the great trek

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