The trophies of a toper were curiously carved on it. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Bids, less thirsty the thirsty grape, the toper. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
"Does this fine toper know you are connected to your brother?". From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
Trimmins said, smiting his brother toper between the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
While the toper sometimes looks behind and tarries in the race!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
Inman climbed up from the wet ground and stood, wavery as a toper. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
"That Hopewell's become a toper and beats his wife?" chuckled Walky. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
He loved it not as a toper, but as a collector loves his pet pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
‘I knew it!’ said the toper to the shepherd with much satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
Henry, thou art welcome to me as ever was flask of wine to a jolly toper!. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Middle age with the Nipponese usually means the seasoned and steady toper. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Why, John," hastily began the mother, "you speak as if he were an old toper.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Seasoned toper as he was he could carry his liquor without it interfering with his head. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Prussia was a confirmed toper, and the charge was offensively maintained by pen and pencil. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
It is considered a cooling dish, and is esteemed by the abstemious, as well as by the toper. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
"Let him alone," said an old toper; and Griffith remained a good hour with his head on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Mr. Bayham absorbed great quantities of drink; but without any visible effect on that veteran toper. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The old toper was asked if he had ever met a certain gentleman, also notorious for his bibulous habits. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
How often I could have flung it at the head of a confirmed toper, as he knelt at my feet to take the pledge. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
It was some years after Se-quo-yah had learned to present the bottle to his friends before he degenerated into a toper. From Wordnik.com. [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference
The most inveterate toper might hesitate to enter twice if he were always met by the ugly aspect of some dark, forbidding countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
Aristotle and Anacreon contending for the prize of wisdom; and may decide with the essayist, giving the prize to the generous old toper of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
While he was gone, the time seemed to the toper endless. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
An old man and a confirmed toper since his wife's death. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference
A cloud gathered, lowering and heavy, on the face of the toper. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
But there is a better berry than either for the genuine coffee toper. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
"Nothing to be ashamed of, my poor old toper," said Bones honestly in error. From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
"I couldn't endure the wear and tear of this hard work without it," replied the toper. From Wordnik.com. [The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth.] Reference
It was not so impressive to his white observers, as it suggested to them the civilised toper. From Wordnik.com. [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference
I drank the contents hastily off, lest anyone should come in upon us and set me down as a toper. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference
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