Word: tops
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very peculiar. The sole entrances, which were in the two rear corners, were concealed by arras. There was no curtain at all. Two-thirds the way up the back was a row of windows to light the stage. There were two roofs. The lower rested on pillars, the tops of which were on a level with the third gallery, and then slanted upwards toward the windows. The upper roof was horizontal and stretched from the top of the back wall half way over the slanting roof...
...success of a man's business, he insisted, was a practical illustration of the theory of the survival of the fittest; that man will always reach the top of the ladder who is best able to adapt himself to the requirements of whatever position may offer. It does not depend upon how much he may know, but upon how much of his knowledge he can make of use to himself...
...ceased to be a Scotchman; for though he went to Samoa to keep alive, he always longed for the "hills and home." This is seen not only in his verses but all through "David Balfour." Stevenson died on the third day of this month. He was carried to the top of a high mountain and there buried...
Down to the middle of the second century of our era it was the popular belief that the real life of the dead was in the tomb. Offerings were conveyed thither by pouring blood through a hole in the top of the tomb. Thus also the the dead were supplied with food and drink, and even with clothing...
...London the tug, which had carried up the boats earlier in the day, was waiting at the wharf and, after counting the half-mile posts of the four-mile course, the crew gave three cheers for Red Top...