toper
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The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the pompous rectitude of a veteran toper newly pledged and white-ribboned, the Senate passed the bill, sent it to the House.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Stranger was a great yarner and a great toper but he was also a tremendous worker and he more than earned his keep.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Poughkeepsie, Al Ulbrickson and Rusty Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey.
From Time Magazine Archive
With constables, deacons, the parson, and that lab-o'-the-tongue—the tithing-man—each on the alert to keep every one from drinking but himself, the Puritan had little chance to be a toper an he would.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
As a final affront to frustrated topers, sweetshops are allowed to sell "liqueur" chocolates only if they contain no liqueur.
From Time Magazine Archive
New Orleans topers fared no worse than those of most other cities in the matter of prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Balding young Mario Vaselli, having already spent millions on a moviemaking enterprise, a pet soccer team and lavish parties for Roman topers at his Frascati vineyards, betook himself to Naples.
From Time Magazine Archive
As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."
From Time Magazine Archive
For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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