aps

Updated: April 30, 2025

Those 'aps' are buzzing in my ears like an army of infuriated gnats, and those mighty deeds are so much alike who is that?" He left her side abruptly and strode down the gallery to a picture at the end, and facing the room. It was the full-length, life-size portrait of a woman with gown and head-dress in the style of the First Empire.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - What Dreams May Come

It would tire a Welshman to reckon up how many aps 'tis removed from an annal; for it is of that extract, only of the younger house, like a shrimp to a lobster. The original sinner in this kind was Dutch, Gallo-Belgicus the protoplast, and the modern Mercuries but Hans-en-kelders. The Countess of Zealand was brought to bed of an almanac, as many children as days in the year.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century