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  • Knowledgeable staff, three or four events a week and an extensive stock of more than 47,500 titles have earned Topping's a reputation that draws customers from far afield.

    Independent Bookshops in East England 2011

  • Mr. Topping's first name was omitted from the Middle Seat column in Personal Journal on Thursday.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • The only ones that approach it in awfulness are Eric Saward's novelisation of The Twin Dilemma and Topping's Telos novella Ghost Ship.

    Linkspam for 23-6-2009 nwhyte 2009

  • Topping's role reversal The release of William Hill's interim results last week, with which it announced a 12% increase in turnover and a 13% increase in pre-tax profit, was not met with the cheers of horseracing.

    Championship clubs hit by drop in summer transfer income 2010

  • Jenny Topping's two-run single was the difference in a 3-1 decision.

    USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Johnson gets belated win 2005

  • In order to get a classified degree I had to complete the course in two years rather than the standard three, and this resulted in a certain degree of mental indigestion: I recall simultaneously struggling with old-fashioned problems involving rods and pulleys from Humphrey and Topping's "Intermediate Mechanics" and with the properties of Hilbert space as set out in Mandl's text on quantum mechanics.

    Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography 2004

  • You know, I've had a copy of Donald Topping's Chamorro Reference Grammar for thirty years, and this is the first time I've really looked at it.

    languagehat.com: CHAMORRO. 2005

  • The policeman had evidently been telling him about the Inspector and his orders, and Topping's voice was very sour.

    The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat Blyton, Enid 1957

  • At half-past, or thereabouts, he was heard talking to himself about the horse and Topping's family, and to add some incoherent expressions which are supposed to have been either a foreboding of his approaching dissolution, or some wishes relative to the disposal of his little property: consisting chiefly of half-pence which he had buried in different parts of the garden.

    The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

  • Terrace and Broadstairs, for battledoor and shuttlecock; I want to dine in a blouse with you and Mac; and I feel Topping's merits more acutely than I have ever done in my life.

    The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

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