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Rudolph was unmarried; perhaps it was this fact that enabled him to waste money on all sorts of hobbies instead of going to his office with his little black bag and behaving generally as a "weel tappit" husband and king would do.

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

I had been dining, and it was Saturday night, and I had ill will to begin to it; however, they got me down to Clerihugh’s, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit henn under my belt, and then they persuaded me to draw the paper.

Chapter XXXIX 1917

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The Laird o' Cockpen 1909

This flagon, such as we call a 'tappit hen' in my country, but far greater, I bore with me up the cellar stairs, and gave it to one of the guard, bidding him spill not a drop, or he should go thirsty.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

But come, gentlemen, don't let the tappit-hen scraugh to be emptied.

A Legend of Montrose 1871

I can mak 'a sang; and anither is, I can mak' a tune till't; and a third is, I can sing the tane to the tither, that is whan I haena had either ower muckle or ower little o 'the tappit hen.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Lordship, with his old Grin, "The warm bluid is nae tappit yet;" so they brought him a glass of burnt brandy-and-bitters, which he drank with great Gusto.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

Wayside Inn, stretched on three wooden chairs, with a little round deal-table before us, well laden with oatmeal cakes and cheese and butter, nor, you may be sure, without its "tappit hen" -- have we after a long day's journey -- perhaps the longest day --

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801