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- noun Plural form of
toplight .
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Examples
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"Ye kin dash my toplights if I don't wipe up ther floor wi 'yer then!" yelled Tim, and he made a rush for Fritz.
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
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The toplights had been roofed over by Sir Lucien, however, but the raised platform, approached by two steps, which had probably been used as a model's throne, was a permanent fixture of the apartment.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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Away from the house, but equally near lawn and water stood Borrow's library -- a little peaked octagonal summer house, with toplights and windows.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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And so he sank into the quicksands of Eros, right over his tarry toplights, and, nothing loth, Marie accompanied him in the
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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'Then, shipmate, my toplights have gone out, for it appears darker now with my eyes open that it did when they were shut.'
Typee Herman Melville 1855
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Poor Toby lifted up his head, and after a moment's pause said, in a husky voice, ` Then, shipmate, my toplights have gone out, for it appears darker now with my eyes open that it did when they were shut. '
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I wouldn't go to sea in her, shiver my ould timbers and rouse me up with a monkey's tail (man-of-war metaphor), not to chuck a biscuit into Davy Jones's weather eye, and see double with my own old toplights.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841
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Davy Jones's sarser eye through the blue sky of heaven in a calm, or the blue toplights of your honour's lady cast down in a modest overhauling of her catheads: avast!
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841
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How closely the weather-beaten tar yonder clasps his girl's waist! every amorous joke of Signor Punch tells admirably with him; till, between laughing and pressing, Poll is at last compelled to cry out for breath, when Jack only squeezes her the closer, and with a roaring laugh vociferates, "My toplights! what the devil will that fellow Punch do next, Poll?"
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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"Matter enough, your honour," bawled an athletic Irishman in the habit of a sailor; "by the powers, here's Peg Pimpleface, the costermonger's great grand-daughter, at sea without a rudder or compass, upset in a squall, and run bump ashore; and may I be chained to the toplights if I think either crew or cargo can be saved."
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