"Tope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interest, tempered by a little disappointment, the article of Mr. F.A. MITCHELL-HEDGES on "Big Game Fishing in British Waters," in The Daily Mail of September 1st. He tells us of his experiences in catching the "tope," a little-known fish of the shark genus which may be caught this month at such places as Herne Bay, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Brighton and Bournemouth, where he has captured specimens measuring 7-1/2 feet long within two ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various
... several cooking-pots were slung about him, to say nothing of a cork mattress and a mackintosh sheet tied in a flat bundle to his shoulders, a box containing medicines and food which he carried on his head, and fastened to the top of it with string like a helmet on a coffin, an enormous solar-tope stuffed full of mosquito netting, of which the ends fell about him like a green veil. When Alan remonstrated with him as to the cork mattress, suggesting that it should be thrown away as too hot to wear, ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... 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 ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, July 25, 1917 • Various
... which the Mahawanso gives of the consecration of the great Tope at Ruanwelli, by Dutthagamini, King of Ceylon (B.C. 157), 280,000 priests (!) come from Kashmir, a far greater number than is assigned to any other country except one. (J. A. S. B. ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... name I misremember, 'Take the women over to that tope av trees yonder. Get thim out av the camp. 'Tis ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... devil you are! I'll tope with you; I'll sing with you; I'll dance with you;—I'll ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott |
