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"Tup" Quotes from Famous Books

... mixed up about it themselves. And then it is very hard to know which is Nip and which is Tup, because the little ...

— The Eskimo Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... ever hear such an old tup-headed ass?" said Oldbuck, briefly apostrophizing Lovel. "But I must not let him go in this ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... are whistling and piping over the lawn and through the trees in voluble mockery of the professor's task. "Come out," they say, "come out! Why do you look in a book? Double, double, toil and trouble! Give it up—tup, tup, tup! Come away and play for a day. What do you know? Let it go. You're as dry as a chip, chip, chip! Come ...

— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

... been sold and away, and six times had it been brought back again. One bairn said, that her "mother didna like a sheep's head with horns like these, and wanted it changed for another one." A second one said, that, "it had tup's een, and her father liked wether mutton." A third customer found mortal fault with the colours, which, she said, "were not canny, or in the course of nature." What the fourth one said, and the fifth one took leave to observe, I have stupidly ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir