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Usage examples of chaps.

The chaps often used to drop round and have a yarn with Bogan and cheer him up, and one evening I was sitting smoking with him, and yarning about old times, when he got very quiet all of a sudden, and I saw a tear drop from under one of his shutters and roll down his cheek.

Hank had worked on the gear for the broncs and bulls, rewired the lights, repaired the PA system, found a barrel for the rodeo clown, tied the numbered collars on the team penning cattle and, finally, got into his chaps for the bull riding.

No sign of Miss Woodworth or Miss Brooks had been seen anywhere in the city, according to the chaps who roamed the docks and Covent Garden area.

He was so manifestly a bird who, having failed to score in the first chukker, would turn the thing up and spend the rest of his life brooding over his newts and growing long grey whiskers, like one of those chaps you read about in novels, who live in the great white house you can just see over there through the trees and shut themselves off from the world and have pained faces.

By the hoky fiddle, thanks be to Jesus those funny little chaps are not unanimous.

I might be able to arrange with Honnister to have one of his chaps at the hospital if I ask him nicely enough.

Penny and Professor Lumsden looked very professional in white laboratory coats, like the chaps who sell toothpaste in TV ads.

Now a bacterium is a bacterium and a mouse is a mammal, but our little chaps are part bacterium and part mammal.

It was only when he offered to let one of my forensic chaps look at the vault that I accepted the fact.

This morning, round about six o'clock, some chaps came along to open up the place, and they saw an old brown canvas trunk lying in the roadway where the dead end opens off the main street.

Last I've heard is that our chaps there saw nobody about in the night, and Colborn hasn't gone away yet.

How could he go up to Oxford now amongst all those chaps, those splendid friends of Crum's, who would know that his father was a 'bounder'!

I say, one of these days we shall have to fight these chaps, they're getting so damned cheeky--all radicals and socialists.

Some confounded Frenchman--one of those 'Bel Ami' chaps, perhaps, who had nothing to do but hang about women--for he had read that book with difficulty and a sort of disgusted fascination.

There's a good spot in most chaps, I b'lieve, Jimmy, an' I guess there's one in Carrots, if I can only find it.