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  • He found a hawk's nest on the lightning-shattered tipmost top of a six-foot redwood.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • His pleasant neatness and compactness, his small hands and feet, his teeming ready brain, his unaffected accessibility, and a certain fine apprehensiveness which stamped him as susceptible from his topmost hair to his tipmost toe, proved irresistible.

    Sequel 1916

  • The cynical bachelor flew suddenly to the tipmost top of a tree, and poured forth the whole of his heart and soul in a song of the South.

    If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • He found a hawk's nest on the lightning-shattered tipmost top of a six-foot redwood.

    Chapter VIII 1910

  • "To the tipmost top of them?" he queried in her ear; and mutely she clung to him, returning his kisses, with the confidence of a child, with the intensity of a woman ....

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • Of course _you_ went to the 'tipmost top; and I didn't.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • His pleasant neatness and compactness, his small hands and feet, his teeming ready brain, his unaffected accessibility, and a certain fine apprehensiveness which stamped him as susceptible from his topmost hair to his tipmost toe, proved irresistible.

    Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • But I was feeling hurt all the way up to my topmost hair and down to my tipmost toe.

    Set in Silver 1901

  • They whirled by the grim monster of a monument quickly, but Georgina felt impelled to turn and look back at it, her gaze following it up higher and higher, above the gargoyles, to the tipmost stones which seemed to touch the sky.

    Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

  • "_I_'m going to the tipmost top to see out over the world.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

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