Toper

CALLEBS: And Eileen and Toper have big plans for this company after this start.

CNN Transcript May 29, 2007 2007

At the weekly declamation, rather than a conventional discourse on the necessity of converting the heathen, Veblen threw the faculty into an uproar with “A Plea for Cannibalism” and “An Apology for a Toper.”

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

At the weekly declamation, rather than a conventional discourse on the necessity of converting the heathen, Veblen threw the faculty into an uproar with “A Plea for Cannibalism” and “An Apology for a Toper.”

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Toper; yet that is too common -- it is the characteristic of all topers -- never was one that could not find an excuse.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

_Toper Major_ (_over their third bottle of a Grand Vin_).

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 Various

'Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich,' a 'long vacation pastoral, 'written in loose and more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour and freshness, and with passages and indeed whole scenes of great beauty and eloquence.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

What I like infinitely better is Clough's 'Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich,' a 'long vacation pastoral, 'written in loose and more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour and freshness, and with passages and indeed whole scenes of great beauty and eloquence.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

The Game of Bunco became a duly authorised official diversion under control of the Tax Assessors, and the Town Toper, being elected by popular vote, could get as leery as he pleased by public consent.

Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892

There is the so-called portrait of the painter and his wife, two full-length figures; the Jolly Toper, half-length figure, large black hat, in the left hand a glass; and the insolent lute-player, a copy, said to be by Dirck Hals, the original in the possession of Baron Gustave Rothschild at Paris.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

Her Jolly Toper faces the Hals of the same theme, in a cabinet, and reveals its artistic ancestry.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890