In the corner of the room farthest from the door, was a roll-top desk, which was open.

"'When I got on the main topsail halyard block, I saw the admiral's baker in the shrouds of the mizen-top-mast, and directly after that, the woman, whom I had pulled out of the port-hole, came rolling by: I said to the baker, who was an Irishman, named Robert Cleary, "Bob, reach out your hand, and catch hold of that woman; that is a woman I pulled out of the port-hole: I dare say she is not dead."

Laban let 'em through the fence and then clapped our brand a-top o' yours.

Besides these things, I took all the men's clothes that I could find, and a spare fore-top sail, a hammock, and some bedding; and with this I loaded my second raft, and brought them all safe on shore, to my very great comfort.

The tree-tops meeting overhead made a green tunnel.

To look over Wall street is quite another matter, and P. knows how to do it to a T. Many a time at midnight, from his perch on the tip of the spire of Old Trinity, (a tip-top point from which to look over Wall streetyou see the point?) has PUNCHINELLO beheld the ghosts of dead speculations floating hopelessly through the murky air.

Then they all went for a walk in the meadow where the red clover-tops nod in the wind, and Mamma Goose did no more thinking that day.

Anything in sight, Cavere?" From high up on the fore-top yard, the answer, blown by the wind, came down in broken English: "Non, M'sieur; I see nottings.

He would have none but a tip-top college man to educate him.

" Carrying her golden top-knot like a crown, she left the room.

Is everything in tip-top order?"

The roll-top desk mystery, by Carolyn Wells.

If dead ground hid you from one hill-top enemy marks-men could get you from another, and it was impossible for the division to proceed unless it got the enemy out of all the hills on its line of advance.

"I made a tip-top meal, and then thought I'd lay down and take a little nap.

On a hill-top north of the lake, in the Deer-park, is a monument of quite other charactera great oblong marked by pillared stones, like an open temple.

Well, despite all that, I took the exaggerations your party friends printed about you quite seriously for some days, putting you on a level with all the solemn top-notchers I have known.

It's only by looking round that one can get real tip-top novelties.

What eddication the gal gets at a school like that isn't worth a row of pins, and when they go away they don't know nothin' useful, nor even anything tip-top ornamental.

Good place to live in,first-rate market,tip-top peaches.

"And you may tell Julius to ask any of the clerics if Lenore was not a perfect darling with the Vicar and his wife, and her sister too; and Rockpier is a regular tip-top place for Church, you know.

At first their shadowy helms in the faint distance The tree-tops rear; then, as he nearer glides, The white surf gleams where the firm reef's resistance Meets and hurls back the fiercely charging tides.

In the corner of the room was a roll-top deskthe sanctum, evidently, of The Chained Man.

If it wasn't for that scoutmaster you fellows have, I'd say he would never make a regular tip-top scout.

Would ye on some hill-top set, When ye list to catch a trout, Or a carp, your fishing-net?

Proud in the blush of morning glowing, What on the hill-top shines in flowing? "See you the Foeman's banners waving?" "We see the Foeman's banners waving!" Now, God be with you, woman and child, Lustily hark to the music wild