Lexicographical Neighbors of Stapples
Literary usage of Stapples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
""I'll go to such a place, though it should rain auld wives and pipe-stapples," Prov.
South of S. But the more ancient form is universally retained in the ..."
2. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"... ye might as weel batter at it wi' pipe. stapples.' Within the door-way, and
at the distance of nine feet, which was the solid thickness of the wall, ..."
3. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"... but its no an ilka day's bird. An expression of incredulity, at an improbable
statement. IT rains auld wives and pipe stapples ; and— IT rains ..."
4. The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of by William Craig Brownlee (1833)
"... hands lik the crackin o' pipe stapples !" Sir James Stewart sallied out, and
joined Burleigh with all his domestics, armed with such instruments as they ..."
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