humming top
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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You’ll sleep like a humming top now, I should think.”
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
The tin or wooden humming top is but an interesting toy.
From Healthful Sports for Boys by Alfred Rochefort
Quiet with the peace of a humming top; warm with the heat generated from mellow asphalt and resinous wood-paving.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Kay glanced at the huge, humming top that filled the center of the laboratory.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various
And throwing down the humming top which she had been examining, she stalked out of the room, and banged the door behind her.
From The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life by Arthur A. Dixon
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