You are a tip-top man at finding sugar, aren't you?" "Yes, fin' shugh."

They expect to be snowed up at the Tip-top House, from December until March, and will spend their time in a room lined with felt, where they will burn twenty tons of coal during their sojourn.

They would probably be frozen in until March, and they would find it much more difficult to use their instruments, and everything far more disagreeable, generally, than in a large room in the Tip-top House.

But when you've had some hot lunch and a cup of hot coffee you'll be tip-top again.

And don't feel alarmed; I'll promise you shall have a tip-top dinner.

"Tip-top," he remarked.

" "You said that tip-top," said Dab, the moment they were on the sidewalk; "

John Gilbert said unto his pals, “Although they make a bobbery About our tricks we have never done a tip-top thing in robbery.

"I've mixed a pail o' that green paint same as your mother wanted, an' I've brought you a tip-top brush.

What was considered a "tip-top" tree now was not looked at twenty years ago, when he first went into the business; but they succeeded very well now with what was considered quite inferior timber then.

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

In the coffee-room at the hotel a stranger, loud in praise of the commercial enterprise of the neighbourhood, advised Coningsby, if he wanted to see something tip-top in the way of cotton works, to visit Millbank of Millbank's; and thus it came about that Coningsby first met Edith Millbank.

I must have obeyed itI was on the tip-top point of obeyingmy body already leant prone: but at that instant a voice at the opened door behind me said: 'Well, how is everything?'

She was in high spirits, having had, as she informed her neighbor, "a tip-top time."

But Mamma Cricket and Aunt Katy Didd soon had everything in tip-top order, and the winter home was just as clean and neat as the summer home out under the rose bush had been.

And Jay went all the way to the City and could find no picture of a tip-top soldier, and then she came back to the Brown Borough, and because of the intervention of Providence, found Albrecht Dürer's "St. George" second-hand in a Jew-shop.

Shall I tell how the long summer afternoon wore away, dear little reader, and how the big basket was filled to the tip-top and covered with wild flowers and oak leaves?

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

I was enjoying myself tip-top, and chuckled to think of the way I had euchred Frank Hawden.

His head is screwed on the right way, his heart is in the right place, and his principles are tip-top.

"'Well, sir,' says I, 'when your work is done, an' your kitchen cleaned up, an' your lamp lit, a lord or a duke is jus' tip-top to read about, if the type aint too fine an' the paper mean beside, which it often is in the ten-cent books; but, further than this, I must say, we aint got no use for 'em.'

Out in the mellow night a bird sang from the tip-top of a late-blooming orange tree, and inside, away inside, inside and through and through the poor girl's heart, the "years"which really were nothing but the mantel clock's quarter-hours"crept slowly by.

Luckily, he screeched blue murder at the tip-top of his voice, or we might not have missed the beast.

"The other side of that mound is tip-top for skiing," remarked Nap, "better than you would expect in this country.

"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.