This was the game In bad weather when the ports are closed and first class passengers are yapping for air it is the province of the engine room to see that they get it - Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Not their shrill yapping you've not heard The world's near to be blasted - Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

In one hand he carried a basket and from this basket rising above the din of conversation there came a sudden sharp yapping - The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse