Raps

Music (For Robots) « Indie beats vs flossin 'raps | ❋ Unknown (2006)

P'raps Mrs. Wylie doesn't know anything about the spell, and has just got some stupid, common reason for not wanting us to play with the little girl, or p'raps '-- and this was plainly a brilliant idea --' _p'raps_ the spell's put on her without her knowing, and stops her when she begins to speak about it. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)

i like to cast rattlin raps and len thompsons over deep pools and use a fairly fast retrieve also large black and orange/yellow bucktail inline spinners ❋ Unknown (2009)

"He who at every second word raps out a pagan or Christian oath, and cannot for his life tell any difference between the two!" ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

I suppose they need not be very apprehensive of counterfeits, which it will be difficult to make so as not to be discovered; for it is plain that those bad halfpence called raps are so easily distinguished, even from the most worn genuine halfpenny, that nobody will now take them for ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

But I confess myself in the dark on that article; only I think it impossible it should amount to any proportion near thirty per cent.; otherwise the coiners of those counterfeit halfpence called raps [117] would have little encouragement to follow their trade. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

I am a huge raps fan but let's be real they are terrible without bosh and average with him, unless bosh is "determined" then the raps are a good team, but that effort isn't consistent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I told her that the Commission had now had two séances with her, and that the conclusion to which they had come is that the so-called raps are confined wholly to her person, whether produced by her voluntarily or involuntarily they had not attempted to decide; furthermore, that although thus satisfied in their own minds they were anxious to treat her with all possible deference and consideration, and accordingly had desired me to say to her that if she thought another séance with her would or might modify or reverse their conclusion, they held themselves ready to meet her again this evening and renew the investigation of the manifestations; at the same time I felt it my duty to add that in that case the examination would necessarily be of the most searching description. ❋ The Seybert Commission (N/A)

He kind of raps about nature and peace and stuff though, which I think are definitely Damon inspired, but it sounds great. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The guy who "raps" is probably the really cool choir director at an evangelical mega-church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He prefaced the song with "raps," and the numbers ran longer than three minutes with lush arrangements. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The animated cast includes a group a multi-racial youngsters lucky enough to actually find something interesting in their parents 'closets and an anthropomorphic bald eagle who "raps" to the children about what they should do if they find a firearm. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hayes used the technique of the spoken word over his rich arrangements since the inception of his solo career; though he called them "raps" on "Black Moses," they had little to do with the rap movement that followed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Great piece on GD 'raps' and a Gong reference, whoa. ❋ Brent Mydland (2005)

Knock, indeed, he did at the door, but not with one of those gentle raps which is usual on such occasions. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Just flow, like five-or-six liners, just A-B kind of raps," he says. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And he kind of raps his instructions and makes this a sacred obligation. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Inflated grades with As for all who would not settle for a B and the total disappearance of failures; the collapsed thresholds of admission, appointment, and promotion; the deterioration of scholarly discourse into "raps" and "relevance"; the trivialization of the curriculum with courses in astrology, soul food, and joyful sex. ❋ Ohmann, Richard (1986)

Medium laid her hands upon the table and tried to produce "raps," but did not succeed. ❋ The Seybert Commission (N/A)