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Sentences ending with top

The sergeant's brain was going round like a top. [11]
You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top. [5]
I should rather wait till the last day for some of my motives to come to the top. [8]
And we are to have an upheaval to throw many of us to the top. [9]
Seems to me, though, that you are educating the colored brother all on top. [4]
The guide said then--and he mentioned it casually, in reply to our inquiries about ascending the mountain--that there was a cave high up among the precipices on the southeast side of Nipple Top. [4]
In nine hours the water had risen to its customary level--that is to say, it was within twenty-three feet of the top. [5]
I don't like the name of the first variety, and, if they do much, shall change it to Silver Top. [4]
Jethro never heard the expression about "cracks in the Constitution," and would not have known what it meant,--he merely had the desire to get on top. [9]
Materialism down at the bottom of society is no better than materialism at the top. [4]

Short sentences using top

Build your fire on top. [4]
Watched top of Kenesaw. [9]

Sentences containing top two or more times

At the top was the inn where we put up, close by the church; and the clergyman's house, we were told, was at the top of the churchyard. [14]
He got to the stairs, and when he went up on all fours the house was so unsteady that he could hardly make his way, but at last he got to the top and raised his foot and put it on the top step. [5]
On top, in the banquette, are seats for eight, besides the postilion and guard; in the coupe, under the postilion's seat and looking upon the horses, seats for three; in the interior, for three; and on top, behind, for six or eight. [4]
Its height and size would represent two of the Washington capitol set one on top of the other--if the capitol were wider; or two blocks or two blocks and a half of ordinary buildings set one on top of the other. [5]
At the top she paused again, and for a short space stood alert, her glance resting on the little table in the corner, on top of which a few thumbed law books lay neatly piled. [9]
He did not bother himself much about details or practicabilities of location, but ran merrily along, sighting from the top of one divide to the top of another, and striking "plumb" every town site and big plantation within twenty or thirty miles of his route. [5]
Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,--and got in top. [9]

More example sentences with the word top in them

I says: "Now you think it's bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday? [5]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
Spring had as yet lured no leaves from the boughs, but there were many objects to be seen in the bare top of the tree. [10]
Many of the wounded asked them not to unload the carts but only to let them sit on the top of the things. [2]
He's by himself, with something of every sort in him from the top to the bottom. [11]
Phillips was there with his 'turn-out,' as he calls his top buggy that Cap. [5]
A copper-colored skeleton, with a rag around him, brought me a glass decanter of water, with a lighted tobacco pipe in the top of it, and a pliant stem a yard long, with a brass mouth-piece to it. [5]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. [5]
Paulus obeyed his wish and then went with Hermas to the top of the tower to spy the distance from thence. [10]
Going to the window she opened it also, but she compromised sufficiently to open it at the top instead of at the bottom. [11]
He was a willing, lively little waiter, with his moony face on the top of his head; and he jumped round in the rain like a parching pea, rolling his head about in the funniest manner. [4]
Those floating freaks which were all top and drew nothing, were loaded down to the guards with army stores and animals and wood and men, --men who came from every walk in life. [9]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
The bed- posts were sawed off on top, as the ceiling was not more than four feet from the improvised floor. [5]
But her spirits were at the very top notch, now. [5]
The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
And then, when we had cautiously rounded a hummock at the top, my steel helmet was blown off--not by a shrapnel, but by the wind! [9]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
He said he wasn't in such a very particular hurry, but he wanted to get to the top while he was young. [5]
But there he was, at the top of the ladder; he passed the axe from his left hand to his right, and leaning back a little, looked at the head of the god from one side. [10]
Here the flat was towed alongside the gin-house where there were fifteen head standing in water; and yet, as they stood on scaffolds, their heads were above the top of the entrance. [5]
When the top was reached and we went flying down the other side, there was no change in the program. [5]
The Regent Ani was present, and sat on Ameni's right at the top of the centre high-table at which several places were unoccupied; for the prophets and the initiated of the temple of Amon had excused themselves from being present. [10]
The year 1863 was perhaps the very top blossom and culmination of the "flush times. [5]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
Sometimes a visitor was admitted to this sacramental feat, the dearest old gentleman in the world, with a great, high bridged nose, a slight stoop, a kindling look, and snow white hair, though the top of his head was bald. [9]
At the top was a plateau, smooth and fine as a parade-ground, where battle could be given, or move be made upon the city and citadel, which lay on ground no higher. [11]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
And my most vivid remembrance is of the great trunks towering half a hundred feet in the air, with a tassel of leaves at the top, which my father said were palmettos. [9]
This is all very well, but when he tries to kick a fly off the top of his head with his hind foot, it is too much variety. [5]
It was a very slim tree that hadn't a branch on it from the bottom plumb to the top, and there it bursted out like a feather-duster. [5]
This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away by excitement, but ask calmly, how does this person feel about it in his cooler moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on top of him? [5]
In front of us was a huge fire of birchlogs; and over it we could see the top of the falls glistening in the moonlight; and the roar of the falls, and the brawling of the stream near us, filled all the ancient woods. [4]
He straightened himself up, as he spoke, standing on the top round of his high chair, I suppose, and so presented the larger part of his little figure to the view of the boarders. [6]
I will climb up, and from the top of the tower there I can see where the dogs come from. [10]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
The pigeon-house, built up of clay pots and Nile-mud, stood on the top of the storehouse, which lay adjoining the southern boundary wall of the temple. [10]
It is made up into small round or oblong forms; and the top is ornamented in various patterns, with split almond meats. [4]
He had fitted up bachelor apartments for himself in the house, and said that he was going to have a flat to let on the top floor. [8]
The vast audience under the canopy directed its eyes to a man on the platform, who was violently gesticulating and shouting at the top of his voice. [4]
The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again. [2]
The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly what it is. [7]
The perfection of travel is ten miles an hour, on top of a stagecoach; it is greater speed than forty by rail. [4]
The man on top, looking at the view, is apparently too large, but I found he could not be made smaller, conveniently. [5]
We gained the top, and entered unmolested. [9]
Austen, from the top of the stairway, saw this catastrophe, but did not smile. [9]
Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
She provided the top of everything for those companies, and in abundance --among them many a dish and many a wine which they had not tasted before and which they had not even heard of except at second-hand from the prince's servants. [5]
Why man!--and on top of all this am I to understand that you had still more income? [5]
The sign-boards on top had invited customers into shop or inn, and the roll of carpet beneath was perhaps to have covered some floor to-morrow. [10]
She opened the top drawer of the chest, the drawer in which Hannah, breaking tradition, had put the Bumpus genealogy. [9]
Civilisation tested at top and bottom both, you see. [5]
At the very top a crucifix was sketched with an unsteady hand, and below it the words: "Pray for us! [10]
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. [5]
I suppose somebody told him at the top of the hill that there was nothing to arbitrate, and to get out and go about his business, and that was the reason he marched down after he had marched up with all that ceremony. [8]
As if responding to them but with a different sort of merriment, the metallic sound of the bells reverberated high above and the hot rays of the sun bathed the top of the opposite slope with yet another sort of merriment. [2]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
No, I'm going to the top of the rock. [11]
She has gone to the top of the hill. [11]
When he got to the top of the bank the horse was gone! [5]
He bore her to the top of it. [11]
That brought me to the most painful scene of my life, when I had parted with Dorothy at the top of the stairs. [9]
His head seemed to swell and fill with blood: on the top it throbbed till it was ready to burst. [11]
If he wants to spin his top when he has done work, his father quotes, "Procrastination is the thief of time. [5]
Whoever understands how to seize it when it flits by, will always float on top of everything, like fat on the soup. [10]
He had begun to read it at the top of his voice, screaming down the general din, when everything was forgotten in the excitement caused by the entrance of a procession which was the successful result of many raids on the temple-treasuries and lumber-rooms. [10]
I am used to being afraid of collisions when I ride or drive, but when one is on top of an elephant that feeling is absent. [5]
But you ought to be ashamed to be jawing here like this, in a red blanket, on a forty-foot scaffold on top of the Alps. [5]
The back belonged to a, gentleman who was energetically climbing the embankment in front of him, on the top of which Major Sexton, a regular, army officer, sat his horse. [9]
When they were tired of lugging him, they lifted him, with much effort and difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and left him there amid the broken bottles, utterly unable to get down. [4]
For a short time he was concealed from his eyes, then he saw the top of the standard, then the banner itself, and now his son stood on the highest part of the rampart, shouting: "Espana, Espana! [10]
There are the three layers again and the solid earth between--and, besides, there were only eight in Noah's family, and they could not have eaten all these oysters in the two or three months they staid on top of that mountain. [5]
A---- and I thought we would go to the top of one of these, known as the Beacon. [6]
We wanted something thoroughly and uncompromisingly foreign--foreign from top to bottom--foreign from center to circumference--foreign inside and outside and all around--nothing anywhere about it to dilute its foreignness --nothing to remind us of any other people or any other land under the sun. [5]
On top of this the Government has levied a tax of one-tenth of the whole proceeds of the land. [5]
Did you ever think what the life of the sailor is, that swings at the top of a mast with the frost freezin' his very soul, and because he's slow, owin' to the cold, gets twenty lashes for not bein' quicker? [11]
Right away-- But they've come to take me to the top of Mount Royal, it being a cold, dry, sunny, magnificent day. [5]
Once on top they can't hurt me.... Eh ben, A bi'tot, gargon Carterette! [11]
On one of these occasions, "suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore. [5]
Upon the sides there was no verdure; upon the top centuries had made a green field. [11]
In an instant their lips met, but after this first kiss she tore herself from his arms, rushed up the stairs again, and then, from the top step, shouted joyously: "I could not help seeing you this once! [10]
The front of the upright piano had what March called a short-skirted portiere on it, and the top was covered with vases, with dragon candlesticks and with Jap fans, which also expanded themselves bat wise on the walls between the etchings and the water colors. [8]
The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman style of architecture, for in the then rapid decadence of Greek art, the rising influence of Rome was already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. [5]
As we approached the top, Big Tom pointed out the direction, a half mile away, of a small pond, a little mountain tarn, overlooked by a ledge of rock, where Professor Mitchell lost his life. [4]
Then he struck the top with his clenched fist, and when the Spaniards fixed their eyes on him, shouted in their language: "Yes, indeed, it was delightful in those days, Caballero Navarrete. [10]
The sight of the top tray gave me a pang I shall never forget. [9]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
We climbed to the top of the slope, and were there confronted by Mrs. Cooke and Mr. Trevor, with Mr. Cooke close behind them. [9]
He lifted up the top of the refrigerator. [9]
The document on the top of the pile in the box related to Cyprus--the name caught her eye. [11]
I crept to the top of it and lay there on the slant of the muck to watch. [5]
Mr. Cluyme, at the top of his speed, was come opposite to the carriage when the lady occupant got out of it. [9]
He came to the top of a ridge on which were a handful of meagre trees. [11]
There you have the top crust. [5]
Doctor McKelway paid the top compliment, the cumulation, when he said of Mr. Carnegie: "There is a man who wants to pay more taxes than he is charged. [5]
When we reached the top and got within the wall, we found simply a shallow, far-reaching basin, carpeted with ashes, and here and there a patch of fine sand. [5]
In the morning, the tenth day out, we crossed Green River, a fine, large, limpid stream--stuck in it with the water just up to the top of our mail-bed, and waited till extra teams were put on to haul us up the steep bank. [5]
In front of the tent were planted in the ground three poles that met together at the top, whence depended a kettle. [4]

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