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I recently read a paper, written by a new-generation Chicago economist, that looked like some poor sap's real analysis homework.

Scholastics and Pietists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The sap's change, some claim, was evocative of an imagery connected with menstruation, and is thus widely associated with fertility and matriliny. 62 Because of its connection to fertility, it is widely associated with rites conducted in connection with pregnancy and birthing. 63 In some cases a * mwali's instructor would tell her, "it is the tree from which you have gotten your growth."

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Then it becomes some sap's (mine) responsibility to resuscitate or proclaim death.

The Utah Exception 2008

Of the poor sap's unfortunate predicament, Forbert admits, "I couldn't help but see the situation as funny -- the victim being more and more personally tormented by 'himself.'"

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Chuck Berry His Complete Chess Recordings 1960 - 1966 / Steve Forbert The Place And The Time / A.J. Croce Cage Of Muses 2009

Great Regulars: It's as though an executioner decided to entertain the crowd with an elaborate tap dance before getting down to the messy business of lopping off some poor sap's head.

Great Regulars: It's as though an executioner decided Rus Bowden 2007

We may be sure that no man of woman born, in finding fault about the burning of maple-logs, ever talked of the sap's "exuding"; or, when giving a daughter

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

'Not much; it's jest as good fur ev'ry thing but makin' ile, puttin 'it in the' arth sort o 'takes th' sap eout on it, an 'th' sap's th 'ile.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The oil from their frequent feastings had soaked into the bark, following down and down, checking the sap's rising, till at last it grew discouraged and ceased to climb.

Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909

I wonder if he thinks now the sap's a goin 'to run any sweeter out o' that 'ere than it would off the end of a chip that wa'n't quite so handsome?

Queechy 1854

"" We're in the spring, sap's running, trees are heavy.

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