"Nappy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... garden-house, from the yard, playing with a large dog. The dog ran behind him, jumping up upon him; and when they got to the door, the boy ran in quick, laughing, and shut the door suddenly, so that the dog could not come in after him. This boy's name was George: the dog's name was Nappy—that is, they always called him Nappy. His true name was Napoleon; though James always thought that he got his name from the long naps he used to take in a certain ...
— Rollo at Work • Jacob Abbott
... a gay way of life. Miss Selvyn's modesty and good sense seemed to have great charms for her; she cultivated a friendship with her, notwithstanding some disparity in their ages; and neither of them appeared so nappy as when they ...
— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott
... departed. Cally, not feeling nappy, sat in the library and wrote to her lover the last letter but one she would write before seeing him in New York. Her eager pen flew: but so did the minutes also, or did the impetuous Avery anticipate the moment of his engagement? His ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... About shall go round, Though it cost my good master Best part of a pound: The maid in the buttery Stands ready to fill Her nappy good ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... billies[48] leave the street, And drouthy[49] neebors neebors meet, As market days are wearing late, An' folk begin to tak' the gate[50]; While we sit bousing at the nappy,[51] An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps,[52] and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whaur sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various |
