1 He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.
2 But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends.
3 The rest have gone under because they didn't have any sap in them, because they didn't have the gumption to rise up again.
4 To the sterile winter air the wood gave a scent of March sap.
5 Her skin, so brown and hardened, had not that look of flabbiness, as if the sap beneath it had been secretly drawn away.
6 It was a warm spring day, with a perfume of earth and of yellow flowers, many things rising to bud, and the garden still with the very sap of sunshine.
7 The leaves of the hollyhocks hung like half-closed umbrellas, the sap almost simmered in the stems, and foliage with a smooth surface glared like metallic mirrors.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 8 "Yes, they draw away all the sap and give a false appearance of prosperity," he muttered, stopping to write, and, feeling that she was looking at him and smiling, he looked round.
9 He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
10 He was going to win, to win: not as he had won with his stories, mere publicity, amid a whole sapping of energy and malice.
11 His age may not have been more than three or four and thirty, but his haggard expression and unhealthy hue told of a life which has sapped his strength and robbed him of his youth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient