This brave drinker was Dirck Van Dara, one of the last of those swag-bellied topers that made merry with such solemnity before the English seized their unoffending town.
The children who had romped with him, the rotund topers whom he had left cooling their hot noses in pewter pots at the tavern door, the dogs that used to bark a welcome, recognizing in him a kindred spirit of vagrancy: where were they?
One of the town topers had purchased the half-gallon bottle and had hid it in a barn, fearing to take it home.
It always irritates me when I hear these old topers excused.
I went to see the clean wooden cell where topers are confined until they are sober.
At the sign of St. Dominic too, whose meaning of religious hospitality had been utterly perverted in the course of time, stanch topers used to congregate for joyous orgies.
We gentlemen of Norfolk," he replied, without any appearance of shame, "are honest topers all.
I will sing you another song, written for the good old days of Tom D'Urfey, when men were giants, and such humble topers as ourselves would have met with scant respect.
Azelma listened to Éponine in admiration; in the mean while the topers had begun singing an obscene song at which they laughed till the ceiling shook, Thénardier encouraging and accompanying them.
The Topers were not at home; they had gone to drink Evesham dry; but the Sippers held the fort and duly maintained the honour of Bidford.
But the walking sand-beds of North Germany, the swag-bellied warriors of Baden and Bavaria, and the stanch topers of Saxony and Swabia must of a surety have distinguished themselves.
These Bacchanalian choruses have been indited in the tavern, with a crowd of topers round the poet, with the rattle of the dice-box ringing in his ears, and with the facile maidens of his volatile amours draining the wine-cup at his elbow.
In the poems on the Order we have seen how large a space in their vagrant lives was occupied by the tavern and its jovial company of topers and gamesters.
Therefore let wine's praise be sounded, Healths to topers all propounded; We shall never be confounded, Toping for eternity!
Of social games played by the topers we mention, besides the complicated kottabos, the games played on a board or with dice.
Flowers full of symbolic meaning were offered on the altars of the gods, and the topers at carousals were crowned with wreaths of myrtle, roses, and violets, the latter being the favorite flower with the Athenians.
Games of hazard with dice and astragaloi were most likely greater favorites with the topers than the intellectual ones hitherto described.
Wonderful to relate, brandy-and-water used to be served to thesetopers in the drawing-room itself.
I am always at home in the mornings--to pupils only--and generally at home in the afternoon to pupils and topers and Lushingtons.
Thus, truth to tell, tall topers stout, Both wine and wit ye go without!
Ye topers all drink to the soul, Of this right honest fellow; Who always loved a flowing bowl, And would in death be mellow.
It is the old talk of devotees about sin, of topers concerning water, temperance men of gin, and albeit it is neither wise nor witty, it is becoming in us at whom they rail to deal mercifully with them.
When the two jolly topers came forth and corkscrewed a devious course home-along, Messrs.
Some of them are--hic--drunken fellows, and no more fit for a command than the old topers in the streets of Richmond.
His movements were calculated to make a sensation; and, as he passed along, old topers and gay young bloods paused to glance at him.
For the jolly smith“ cried a chorus of toperswho were around.
Word was passed for a night raid "by representative citizens," as these topers called themselves.
All the topers and loafers who ever knew Miller are outside to avenge the beating that Miller received from Dick!
There were still many abroad, belated riders exchanging last words before they parted, or topers cracking jokes through open windows; and the man was lost among these before Lady Betty had even seen him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
