thrapple

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`I'm terribly thirsty, I could drink a bucketful if I had it So could I, for my thrapple is as dry as a dustbin,' added Mr Gordon As to that, I am not better than either of you,' says Mr Rogers, `but I thought that I'd try to hold out as long as I could Well,' says I, `I'll make my way below and see what I can bring up.

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  • `I'm terribly thirsty, I could drink a bucketful if I had it So could I, for my thrapple is as dry as a dustbin,' added Mr Gordon As to that, I am not better than either of you,' says Mr Rogers, `but I thought that I'd try to hold out as long as I could Well,' says I, `I'll make my way below and see what I can bring up. —  The Three Lieutenants
  • So we put a loose larzette roun' his thrapple, an' on the promise o' its bein' tightened, he tolt us the hul story; how they hed attackted an' skuttled a carryvan, an' all 'bout entoomin' you an' a kimrade--this young fellur, I take it--who war wi' ye. —  The Lone Ranche
  • The strap o' the bushbie was roond his thrapple, an' was juist aboot stranglin' him, when I cut it wi' the ham knife. —  My Man Sandy
  • It is said that while at breakfast that morning in Strathavon he had refused his dog meat, promising it a full meal off the Whigs' bodies before night; "but instead of that," runs the tale, "his dog was seen eating his own thrapple (for he was killed) by several." —  Claverhouse
  • A paisant saves a mon's life for the same reason that a hero or a footpad cuts his thrapple: an' a pheelosopher delevers a mon frae a preson, for the same reason that a tailor or a prime meenester puts him into it: because it is conformable to his ain parteecular feelings o' the moral an' poleetical fetness o' things Squire Headlong. —  Headlong Hall
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