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"Top off" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mallett'll get blamed for! Lord bless you, do you think he's the only man in the place that's had such an affair? But Hathelsborough folk, men and women, are past masters and mistresses at secrecy and deception! If you could take the top off this town, and look deep down under it—ah! there would be something to see. But, as I dare say you're beginning to find out, that's no ...

— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

... whistle ez enuff ter put sunshine inter the Deluge! I used ter think we wuz ez happy ez birds—Miss Di-an an' me—but I declare the house seems lonesum now when he leaves in the mornin'. He's alluz at it, whistle, whistle, whistle. 'Tain't none o' them screechin' whistles that takes the top off of your head an' leaves the inside a' hummin', but it's jest as soft an' sweet an' low! Sometimes I think he's prayin', it's that lovely. It's my belief it puts Miss Di-an in mind o' someone, fer she jest sets in the porch, when he's a' tinkerin' round in the evenings or dig-gin' in the gardin—he's ...

— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black

... observed, knocking the top off her egg, "who will develop into a nervous invalid or an advanced coquette, and it entirely depends upon how much admiration she gets which she does. I hear she's religious, too, in a silly, egotistical way. She ought ...

— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome

... lime up, and don't allow lime to collect where the water enters the boiler, or you may split a heater pipe or knock the top off of a ...

— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard

Words linked to "Top off" : fill up, make full, fill, finish, complete