Sentence examples for a capital chap from inspiring English sources
Scrooge reckons he is a capital chap.
In a letter home, a month into the voyage, he described "a capital chap," Polish, somewhat odd-looking, with "a fund of yarns on which I draw freely".
Only a week or so ago, I heard a business fellow on NPR's "Marketplace" propose a Regulatory Impact Report that would reveal what bureaucratic roadblocks capital chaps like himself might run up against when they try to stoke our economic engines.
Wilde wrote that his first six months, after he was transferred from Wandsworth to Reading and spent most of his days picking oakum – shredding old tarred rope – until his fingers bled, had almost destroyed him, and that it was the company of the other prisoners, "capital chaps", which saved him.
But what a chap needs is Action with a capital A. And here I am, about to run another ad, seeking adventure in an age found wanting.
There's a sad sentence about weekends in the capital when a chap is between girlfriends.
I say, give a chap a brandy and soda".
"He is a straight-talking chap," said a friend.
