"Tip-top" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here, I have accomplished the laborious perusal of your transcendent and tip-top periodical, and, hoity toity! I am like a duck in thunder with admiring wonderment at the drollishness and jocosity with which your paper is ready to burst in its pictorial department. But, alack! when I turn my critical attention ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... takes the rifle, lookin' as knowin' all the time as if he had ever seed one afore. Well, there was a great red squirrel, on the tip-top of a limb, chatterin' away like any thing, chee, chee, chee, proper frightened; he know'd it warn't me, that was a parsecutin' of him, and he expected he'd be hurt. They know'd me, did the little critters, when they seed me, and ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... his lip to keep from laughing as he soberly answered, "Tip-top, Puss. I'll call you that sometimes—that is, as much of it as I can remember, if you want me to; just in play, you know. Won't ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown
... invited the whole set, and we shall have a tip-top time. We always do at the Minots'," ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott
... a tip-top meal, and then thought I'd lay down and take a little nap. I slept for an hour or two, and then saddled up, and rode along. Putty soon I happened ter look round, and, blast my picter, ef there warn't eight Comanches a-comin' after me like ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
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