Sentence examples similar to old saps from inspiring English sources

The old, sapping heaviness of Wembley's turf is thought not to be a problem this weekend.

(Mr. Broderick said it could be dangerous to use the old sap collection buckets and boiling pans because of the lead).

In her celebrated novels, "Housekeeping" (1981), "Gilead" (2004) and "Home" (2008), Marilynne Robinson gives us "isolated towns and single houses" where the afternoon sun draws "the damp out of the grass and... the smell of sour old sap out of the boards on the porch floor".

He doesn't feel the old sap rising.

He doesn’t feel the old sap rising.

This second tranche of Vanderhaeghe's proposed trilogy is assembled out of Indian massacres and a fight to the death with a grizzly bear, night sweats of splintering bone and mangled flesh, and a whiskery cast of "drifters, riverboat men, trappers, muleskinners, bull-whackers, old waddies, and sap-green cowboys".

Americans are not without private generosity for those who fall by the wayside (so long as they are deemed worthy); but they dislike institutionalised generosity (epitomised by the old welfare system) that saps a man's will to heave himself up.More important, however, for the prospects of the left, is the fact that America regards itself as classless.

Oracle has hustled to build its own cloud capabilities in the three years since Mr. Hurd joined, but so has SAP, its old nemesis.