toppy

Updated: June 5, 2025

Yesterday Snow rushed into the kitchen with face so anxious and piteous that my servants both exclaimed that something must have happened; gave signs, as he can do, that somebody was to go with him, and was followed into the drawing-room, where Toppy, left alone, had fallen under the grate in a fit, and was writhing amid the ashes and embers.

Various - Dog Stories from the "Spectator": being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power,: affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the: correspondence columns of "The Spectator"

"You wouldn't mind, sor," he begins, "if I tell ye of a party of three I took home from a grand ball one of the toppy balls of the winter, in one o' them big halls on the Strand?

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog

Well, he's han'some enough. Ain't it amusing how a nice-feeling rooster like that will go stepping round as if he felt about too toppy to live! He'd ought to wear diamonds." "Oh, oh, dear, please don't!" breathed Rebecca Mary, softly, but neither of the women heard her. "Well, well, I must be going. I've made a regular visit.

Annie Hamilton Donnell - Rebecca Mary

I want her t' learn somethin' more scientific. 'Now you're talkin', said Uncle Eb. 'There's lots o' things ye can't learn by cipherin'. Nuthin's too good fer Hope. 'I'd like t' know what you men expect of her anyway, said Elizabeth Brower. 'A high stepper, said Uncle Eb. 'We want a slick coat, a kind uv a toppy head, an a lot O' ginger.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country

Brown don't see it he's got his back to the door. "The guy leads the hoss up to us. "'Here's that hunter I phoned you about, Mr. Brown, he says. The hoss is a toppy trick bright bay, short backed, good coupled 'n' 'll weigh eleven hundred strong. But he's got a knot on his near-fore that shows plain. "'I thought you told me he was sound? says Brown, lookin' at the knot.

John Taintor Foote - Blister Jones

"Say, this Melford is the horsiest burg ever I saw! They don't do nothin' but ride 'em 'n' drive 'em 'n' chew the rag about 'em men 'n' women the same. Even the kids has toppy little ponies and has hoss shows fur their stuff. "They has what they call a Hunt Club, 'n' everybody hangs out there. This club gives the cup Mr. Van wants to win.

John Taintor Foote - Blister Jones

At the present time, my dog Snow is on terms of hearty friendship with my grey cat Kitty, but of polite indifference with my black cat Toppy.

Various - Dog Stories from the "Spectator": being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power,: affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the: correspondence columns of "The Spectator"