We played games with these tops--two to fifty boys at one time. Each whips his top until it hums; then one takes the lead and the rest fol- low in a sort of obstacle race. The top must spin all the way through. There were bars of snow over which we must pilot our top in the spoon end of our whip; then again we would toss it in the air on to another open spot of ice or smooth snow- crust from twenty to fifty paces away. The top that holds out the longest is the winner.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
And when we reached the top so high, The top so high, the top so high, And this is truth I tell. And when we reached the top so high Says I, `I'll kiss you, if I die!'英文原著 · 《R. F. Murray》
The monkey and the little boy did tricks together. Then the man and the boy did tricks. The man balanced a ladder on his shoulder. The little boy climbed right up the ladder and hung from the top of it by his toes. Every boy in the street came running to see them. Take came, too. The little boy, hanging from the top of the ladder, opened a fan and fanned himself! Then he climbed to his feet again and stood on one foot on the top of the ladder.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
Almost immediately Top bounded into the corral, and the gate was quickly shut. "Top, Top!" exclaimed the engineer, taking the dog's great honest head between his hands. A note was fastened to his neck, and Cyrus Harding read these words, traced in Neb's large writing:--"No pirates in the neighborhood of Granite House. I will not stir. Poor Mr. Herbert!"英文原著 · 《The Mysterious Island》
Instantly the living embers in tree top and grass plat were fanned to flame. Like veritable fire, the leaves blazed up. Branch after branch caught and crackled; even the dryest, the deadest, were enfolded in the resistless swirl of green. Tree top ignited tree top; the parks and boulevards were one smother of radiance. From end to end and from side to side of the city, fed by the rains, urged by the south winds, spread billowing and surging the superb conflagration of the coming summer.英文原著 · 《The Pit》
A whole day's walk yesterday with no plan; just a long ramble of hour after hour, entirely enjoyable. It ended at Topsham, where I sat on the little churchyard terrace, and watched the evening tide come up the broad estuary. I have a great liking for Topsham, and that churchyard, overlooking what is not quite sea, yet more than river, is one of the most restful spots I know. Of course the association with old Chaucer, who speaks of Topsham sailors, helps my mood. I came home very tired; but I am not yet decrepit, and for that I must be thankful.英文原著 · 《The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft》
So, this is the top one percent of the top one percent of the top one percent?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
With a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top, with a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top,演讲 · 《My 12 pairs of legs ~ Aimee Mullins》