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"Top round" Quotes from Famous Books

... left the barn. The soft and continual shimmer of the dying lightning showed a marble face high against the black sky of the opposite quarter. Bathsheba was sitting almost on the apex of the stack, her feet gathered up beneath her, and resting on the top round of ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... great Cathedral is three hundred and eighty by two hundred and fifty feet, and a week might be spent in seeking out the vast treasures which run the gamut of art and money from its top round to the bottom. There are many other churches here, but to try to write of them after attempting to describe the Cathedral would be like an introduction to Tom Thumb after having spent the day with Chang, the Chinese giant. However, we ...

— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne

... mounting the professional and political ladder, even half way to the mark I must and will reach. I have naturally a strong constitution, and I calculate it will last, with the rapid mounting I intend, till I reach the top round, and that is all that I care for. But I shall know, all the while, that I am going up like a rocket, whose height and brilliancy are only attained by the certain and rapid wasting of the substance that composes it. But the case is different ...

— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson

... the trouble. Take them from small but well fatted animals, cut off the shank, also part of the top round. Rub over very scantly with powdered saltpeter, mixed well through moist sugar, then lay down in salt for a fortnight, else cover with brine made thus. Pint pickling salt to the gallon of cold water, teaspoon sugar, ...

— Dishes & Beverages of the Old South • Martha McCulloch Williams

... himself up, as he spoke, standing on the top round of his high chair, I suppose, and so presented the larger part of his little figure to the view ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)