Stap

In his lovely book Birdsong: A Natural History, Don Stap writes that “birdsong is like light streaming through the keyhole of a lost world.”

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Stap – The time of day when every one is grouchy and dinner is not quite ready. 5: 15 is stap time. on 10 Sep 2007 at 10: 58 pm Rachel

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Van der Stap plans next to send the students into senior-living facilities.

‘What’s The Red Key For?’ 2008

Stap me - I thought I followed EU chicanery rather more closely than most but I simply DID NOT KNOW that the EUSSR imposed duties on its own products.

Cheers to the Germans Serf 2006

“Stap my vitals”, together with damneds and devilishes, dropped daily and hourly from the lips of her adored father and her venerated Daddy Crisp.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

“Stap, your hanner; does your hanner think that the Orange will ever be out of the kennel, and that the Orange boys will ever walk round the brass man and horse in College Green as they did of ould?”

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Stap my vitals, said he, them was always the sentiments of honest Frank Costello which I was bred up most particular to honour thy father and thy mother that had the best hand to a rolypoly or a hasty pudding as you ever see what I always looks back on with a loving heart.

Ulysses 2003

“Stap me and sink me!” said Alleyn and returned to the stage.

Vintage Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1937

"Stap me," he cried, using a colloquialism of the period, "if I do not name them the Rude Islands."

Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936

My Lord Sale got on his feet, "Stap me, sir, I believe not," he drawled.

The Highwayman 1919