We did not catch what they were; but a well-trained ferret never made a rabbit bolt from his hole as quick as those choice epithets brought the toper from his hammock.
It was a five-dollar one, and a jaded toper living a dipsomaniacal city life would have probably made us a "sporting offer" of three times that amount for it.
Captain Chinks enlarged on this point, and the toper promised to be as silent as the grave.
The toper drank again, and then Captain Chinks made him a present of what was left in the bottle.
Her Jolly Toper faces the Hals of the same theme, in a cabinet, and reveals its artistic ancestry.
While he was gone, the time seemed to the toper endless.
But there was not a drop to drink on the table, except water; and the toper found it hard to lay solid foundation enough for the wine that was to follow, and grumbled inwardly.
So the friendly toper prated and questioned and kept John's heart in a flutter.
The Admiral again proposed an adjournment to the 'Trevanion Arms,' and when Dick had once more refused, it hung for a moment in the balance whether or not the old toper would return there by himself.
I thought it was agoing to die; but at last, thinks I, why shouldn't St Toper cure she, as he cures so many as have fits?
It was blessed by St Toperof Geneva, who was overcome by thirst one morning after spending the night with the monks of Leeches.
And the dregs of drink, a thorough toper will tell you, never leave him.
Even if he's no great toper to begin with, he must show himself fond o' the dram, as a means of getting to his jo.
By the beginning of his second session he was as able a toper as a publican could wish.
The palsied hands of the venerable idiot are vainly striving to steady a goblet for a bumper; the eager toperdoes not distinguish the hand which is filling his last glass.
Captain Harry made a second run of it, caught his foot on the prostrate toper whom Langton had dragged out of Miss Quiney's way, and fell on his brother's neck.
That Hopewell's become a toper and beats his wife?
Trimmins said, smiting his brother toper between the shoulders.
Then the smith with his tools in Sir John made a breach, And the toper he hiccuped and ended his speech; And pulled at the quart, till the snob he declared When he went to drink next that the bottom was bared.
And the toper who carried his house on his head, No wife to be teazing, no bairns to be fed, Would sit out the week or the month or the year Or a life-time so long as he'd credit for beer.
The hogshead rolled forward, the toper fell back, And the host laughed aloud as his sides they would crack To see the old tinker's toil make such a gap In his coat as to rend it from collar to flap.
Then the toper sat down with a hiccup and felt If he'd still an odd coin in his pocket to melt, And he made a wry face, for his pocket was bare.
The toper said nothing but wished the quart full And swore he could toss it all off at a pull.
It treats a woman not as a toper does a whiskey bottle, applying it to his lips as long as it can intoxicate him with pleasure and then throwing it away, but cherishes her for supersensual attributes that survive the ravages of time.
Colonel Toper presents his compliments to you, sir, and having no family down with him in the country, he and Captain Hardbottle, if not inconvenient, will do themselves the honour of taking a family dinner with you.
Colonel Toper and Captain Hardbottle are come, sir.
The din of the drinkers subsided at length, andtoper after toper was helped to his bed.
The high-toper is a swell thief, the other is a low dog.
But what art thou, a high-toper or a lully-prigger?
At any rate, there will be a kindred pleasure in treading the halls once vocal with their mirth to that the toper enjoys in smelling to the empty cask, once filled with generous wine.
It was a potation, indeed, that might well make the heart of a toper leap within him, being composed of the richest and raciest wines, highly spiced and sweetened, with roasted apples bobbing about the surface.
The trophies of a toper were curiously carved on it.
It was not at all strange that Hodge was very angry with the worthless old toperwho had led them into this predicament.
Barely had Merry started to question the old toperwhen Hodge, Ready, and Gallup appeared, hurrying forward.
Toper Major (over their third bottle of a Grand Vin).
Thus, it is worse to be a toper or habitual drunkard than to be an occasional drunkard, and worse to go on a long spree than to be drunk only for an evening.
Habitual intoxication breaks down both morals and health, and the toper goes to a disgraceful and early grave.
If there is an old toper present, or a young toper, let 'em take the warning of an old man who has been awatching the gradual down fall of moderate drinkers for threescore years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
