Chaps

Examples

• But you tutors are such solemn chaps; it is almost like speaking to a parson to consult with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Come on Thursday fortnight, and bring the other chaps with you,' said Mr. Bob Sawyer; 'I'm going to have a few medical fellows that night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Both them ar chaps parsons? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But I am acquainted with these chaps,' said Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• How them two chaps is bound up in one body, is a craddy for me to find out. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• These chaps would sell their younger brothers if they had a chance, I think. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now it's clear to me,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that you are one of those chaps who have always got a grievance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He knows some of the best chaps there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I don't doubt you've accepted as much before--and chucked the other chaps as you'd like to chuck me. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The chaps call him 'Longtail' at school. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Few of the useful contrivances had been invented yet, and almost any one of these chaps might be a genius. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He promises land, and He gives land, and He makes chaps rich with corn and cattle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She took to one of the chaps then? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We married men have to put up with what we can get: all the prizes are for the clever chaps who've kept a free foot. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He's only married a week, and I saw him and some other military chaps handing Mrs. Highflyer to her carriage after the play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Why, they're Lunnon chaps, I reckon, said Hiram, who had a dim notion of London as a centre of hostility to the country. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Fine young chaps! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But them are fools as meddle, and so I told the chaps here. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Oh, Bill, such fine young chaps as them! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• See the chaps in a boat-race; look at the fellers in a fight; aye, look at a dawg killing rats--which is it wins? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You wouldn't have me let that fine fellow work himself to death just for want of a little help, when he is worth a dozen of us lazy chaps, would you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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