toping
- present participle of tope.
Example Sentences
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What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years later he is toping and caroling in an inn, faced with ruin and the loss of Jean Armour, whose father will not let him marry her.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this mate of the brig Cohasset; this mate who commanded nosegays on natal occasions; this mate who inspired love, and brought bibulous tears to the eyes of this toping giant!
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman
I will have no Dubbin—a toping wretch—and she is a too incongruous mixture, with her Edinburgh lingo and her Whitehall arrogance.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Scratch those jovial toping aristocrats, and you everywhere find the Squire Western.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
