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The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the pompous rectitude of a veteran toper newly pledged and white-ribboned, the Senate passed the bill, sent it to the House.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Poughkeepsie, Al Ulbrickson and Rusty Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey.

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The Stranger was a great yarner and a great toper but he was also a tremendous worker and he more than earned his keep.

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“Rose has no spiritual outlook,” she observed one evening, over the nightly glass of hot water which she sipped with an enjoyment a toper might evince while imbibing his grog.

From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young

Balding young Mario Vaselli, having already spent millions on a moviemaking enterprise, a pet soccer team and lavish parties for Roman topers at his Frascati vineyards, betook himself to Naples.

From Time Magazine Archive

As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."

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He had slept late, hurried off to meet other malted-milk topers at the Purity Creamery, and angle for holiday dates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. "Temperance" Fisher, "only female wholesale liquor dealer in England," purveyoress of kümmel to the House of Lords, electrified Tory topers last week by announcing that she now receives periodic shipments of Soviet vodka.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan