"Lap up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are, Master Aleck," cried Tom, "and I warrant she won't leak a spoonful. There's the tide just beginning to lap up round the stern, so we'll get the rudder on again, step the mast, and put all ship-shape ready for a start, and if it's all the same to you I'll just light up my pipe at once, and smoke it as we get the tackle ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn |
