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Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates.

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It tippled a moment, then clove desperately upward, straight for the crow's nest of the big elm.

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The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar.

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Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears.

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Chapter 1.VII.—After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony