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• The musket fire in the tope was dense, an unending crackle of shots, each flash momentarily illuminating the fog of powder smoke that spread between the leaves. —  Sharpe's Tiger
• The tope was filled with shouts as a group of the Tippoo's troops charged. —  Sharpe's Tiger
• Some species such as tope, also referred to as the soup-fin shark, are fished for sport. —  People's Republic of South Devon» The People’s Republic of South Devon
• The mango-tope, a close dark ring, —  Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
• The sooner those ditches were begun the sooner the breaching batteries could be built, but to the south of that chosen ground the steeply banked aqueduct made a deep loop that penetrated a half-mile westwards and the inside of that bend was filled by a tope, a thick wood, and from its leafy cover the Tippoo's men kept up a galling musket fire on the British piquet line, while his rocketmen rained an erratic but troublesome barrage of missiles onto the forward British works. —  Sharpe's Tiger

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