"Topped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Orestes in his wildest mood Sung on no public stage, no Troics wrote.— This topped his frantic crimes! This roused mankind! For what could Galba, what Virginius find, In the dire annals of that bloody reign, Which called for vengeance in ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... sword and the twin doves. Esther, a stout middle-aged dame, and stanch Congregationalist, recommended by the good women of the parish, is installed in the kitchen as maid-of-all-work. As gardener, groom, (a sedate pony and square-topped chaise forming part of the establishment,) factotum, in short,—there is the frowzy-headed man Larkin, who has his quarters in an airy ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various
... I'm going to enjoy myself enormously," said Vivie as she sat in the verandah in the morning sunshine, making a delicious petit dejeuner out of fresh rolls, the butter of the farm, a few slices of sausage, and a big cup of frothing chocolate topped with whipped cream. The scene that spread before her was idyllic, from a bucolic point of view. The beech woods of Tervueren shut out any horizon of town activity; black and white cows were being driven ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... in their golden halls of 'many-topped Olympus,' seem to have led a merry-enough life of it over their nectar and ambrosia, their ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... clots of congealed blood and listening to Venancio's amusing stories culled from The Wandering Jew. Some of them, lulled by the narrator's mellifluous voice, began to snore. But Luis Cervantes listened avidly and as soon as Venancio topped off his talk with a storm of anticlerical denunciations he said emphatically: "Wonderful, wonderful! What intelligence! You're a most ...
— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela
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