The tower which rises inside the tope is symbolic of the nine incarnations of Vishnu.
The gateways before the Sanchi Tope (see the masterly cast of one of these in the South Kensington Museum), though hewn in stone, are a close imitation of wooden posts and cross-beams joined together.
The water-bubble thus lent its form to the tope and daghopa, which latter, according to W.
The gateways recall somewhat those of the Sanchi Tope in India (p.
The tope at Manikyala is larger, and dates from the 7th century.
On again, after a brief halt for refreshment, and about an hour before midday advantage was taken of a great mango tope for another halt; but as soon as the sun began to decline we were off again, with the track plain before us.
Hardly were our men mounted again, and we were moving off, before my heart leaped to my throat, for from the other side of the tope I saw the second sowar regiment dash into sight and race down to attack our foot regiment.
We traversed a piece of country directly in front of the rebels, halting under the shelter of a mangotope during the hottest hours of daylight; resumed the journey at nightfall, and reached Arrah before daybreak.
When they left the tope of trees in which they had slept away the hot hours their ostensible aim was the bridge of boats which carried the Meerut road across the river into the imperial city.
Scented and frizzled in this manner with a well-greased tope or robe, the Arab lady's toilet is complete.
She then takes off the cloth or tope which forms her dress, and crouches naked over the fumes, while she arranges her robe to fall as a mantle from her neck to the ground like a tent.
You went ashore to a grave about a hundred yards inland, under a tope of trees, and alongside a high bank, to look for a locket round a dead man's neck?
Under a small tope of trees she stopped, and placing her hand on my arm, said in answer to a speech of mine-- "You are quite right.
We had a difficult ascent over a rocky hill; after which we passed a tope which has no appearance of having been opened.
Then let us tope about, my lads, And never flinch nor fly, But fill our skins brimfull of wine, And drain the bottles dry.
And while the Prisoner sends for Bail, they Tope the Brandy, Beer and Ale, And makes him pay, or they have him to Jail.
In Shoo Makers Row there's true hearts you know, But give them their Measure and weight, They'l scorn for to stir but stick like a Bur, And Tope it from Morning till Night.
The Tope is a small shark found in tropical and temperate seas.
The color of the tope is gray above and whitish gray beneath.
On regaining the topeat Boling, we found our assistant surgeon, Dr.
We did not get far up the river the first day, as the tope was very slow, and carried that most essential part of all expeditions, the commissariat.
From every mango tope emanates a loud "Think of me .
From every mango tope emanates the cheerful lay of the fantail flycatcher and the lively "Think of me .
Currie has found the nest on two occasions in a mango tree in a tope at Lahore.
One evening we visited the young Rajah at his residence, which has rather a good appearance at a distance, its white walls gleaming through a dark tope of mango, betel, and cocoa-nut.
The tope was perfect in 1819, when visited by Captain Fell,--"not a stone fallen.
In the centre of this tope was found a small chamber, made of six stones, containing the relic-box of white sandstone, about ten inches square.
At last they were divided into eight parts, and a tope was erected, by each of the eight fortunate possessors, over such relics as had fallen to him.
In the absence of the sea-serpent this year a tope weighing thirty-nine pounds has been captured at Hastings.
The fisherman who caught it declares that if he had known it was a tope at the time he would not have been in such a hurry to sign the pledge.
All malt, or spirituous, tope He loathed as cats dissent from soap; And cider, if it touched his lip, Evoked a groan at every sip.
Time to move," he said at last, as he walked to the edge of the widetope of trees and looked out into the open.
Let me lie quietly here till the end, and Owen--bury me beneath the tope of trees which lies behind us.
Selecting a tope of trees Owen rode into it, and throwing one leg over the saddle slipped quietly to the ground.
He found the peons stationed there eagerly staring out at the tope of trees.
When the sun got up on the following morning it found him and his little party some five miles from the camp, dismounted beneath a tope of trees, and cooking a hasty breakfast.
It will take us a week to get to Indore, I calculate," said Owen that evening as they made their camp in another convenient tope of trees, for it was their aim and object to avoid observation.
As the bullets sang about his ears, and the horsemen thundered out from behind the tope of trees, he stood up in his stirrups and surveyed them with every sign of amazement.
He pointed to a low tope of pepul-trees some distance away, where, in the full light of the moon, a number of men were gathered, their dress showing them to be Mahrattas.
That night, ere the moon went down, the spirit of this unfortunate French colonel departed, and his body was buried close beneath the tope of pepul-trees, a couple of flaming torches lighting the workers.
Under the tall grey pillar-like stems of the cocoanut-tope behind the bungalow, the grass, by means of much watering, was almost as green as an English lawn.
Limping slowly along the road, he came at length to a palm-tope and threw himself on the burnt-up grass in the best shaded corner he could find.
The Mayor was there, Mr. Tope said; but he was not to be regarded in the light of company, as he and Mr. Jasper were great friends.
Returning to his quaint lodging, and sitting long over the supper of bread-and- cheese and salad and ale which Mrs. Tope has left prepared for him, he still sits when his supper is finished.
These two chambers, close as to their atmosphere, and swarthy as to their illumination by natural light, were the apartments which Mrs. Tope had so long offered to an unappreciative city.
These, led by Durdles, go aloft; while Mr. Tope and a crowd of early idlers gather down in Minor Canon Corner, shading their eyes and watching for their appearance up there.
Sorry to hear from Tope that you have not been well, Jasper.
Comes Mr. Tope with his large keys, and yawningly unlocks and sets open.
The poor dear gentleman was very solitary and very sad, Mrs. Tope said, but she had no doubt he would 'speak for her.
But as a buffer living on his means, and having an idea of doing it in this lovely place in peace and quiet, for remaining span of life, I beg to ask if the Tope family are quite respectable?
