"Tapster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your will, Betty?" said the minister of Dunse. "An unco uncanny mishap," replied the tapster's wife. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13 Issue 364 - 4 Apr 1829 • Various
... friend, I am no tapster, to say, Anon, anon, sir:[68] but leave you to molest me, goodman tawny-leaves, for fear (as the proverb says, leave is light) so I mow off all ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... excise of three guilders per tun, was imposed by Kieft in 1644, and is paid by the tapster alone, and not ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • Various
... the treacherous tapster, Thomas, Hangs a new angel ten doors from us, We hold it both a shame and sin To quit ...
— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi
... ballad-maker; a tapster; a drunkard; a rectified young man; a young nouice's new yonger wife; a common fidler; a broker; a iouiall good fellow; a humourist; a malepart yong upstart; a scold; a good wife, and a selfe-conceited ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... especial accommodation. The philosophers and economists thought, with Saunders McBullock, the Baron's bagpiper, that a 'feckless monk more or less was nae great subject for a clamjamphrey,' especially as 'the supply exceeded the demand;' while Malthouse, the tapster, was arguing to Dame Martin that a murder now and then was a seasonable check to population, without which the isle of Sheppey would in time be devoured, like a mouldy cheese, by inhabitants of its own producing. Meanwhile the Baron ate his oysters and ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
... forward the Tapiser, who was, of course, a maker of tapestry, and must not be confounded with a tapster, who draws and ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... There was a tapster, that with his pots' smallness, and with frothing of his drink, had got a good sum of money together. This nicking of the pots he would never leave, yet divers times he had been under the hand of authority, but what money soever he ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick |
