"Yap" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tim had driven them in, which was not likely, they would have to shift for themselves for this night. It was too late to see them, and Con, who limped at my heels, had not a yap left ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed
... "Though I can hardly imagine that there can be any connection between the Caroline Islands and the 'Amiral d'Outre l'Arbre Sec,' still it may interest you to know that the currency of 'millstones' existed up to a short time ago, and may do so still, in the island of Yap, in that group. It consisted of various-sized discs of quartz from about 6 inches to nearly 3 feet in diameter, and from 1/2 an inch to 3 or ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... anak yap — cheep, cheep. Lematei telayap, Telayap abing, Lematei Laki Laying oban, Lematei ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... who had ever spent any length of time in the house, she had strong views on Toto. This quadruped, who stained the fame of the entire canine race by posing as a dog, was a small woolly animal with a persistent and penetrating yap, hard to bear with equanimity in health and certainly quite outside the range of a sick man. Her heart bled for Mr. Faucitt. Mrs. Meecher, on the other hand, who held a faith in her little pet's amiability and power to soothe which seven years' close association ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... some disposal of the shawl after her own ideas, and her eyes twinkled as he spoke, though her fat cheeks kept their gravity. It was not till they were far on their way that a voice from below the seat cried, "Yap!" ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing |
