| Furtive and nimble tipplers and topers nightly dodged through alleys and back yards under the noses of the flashlamp-carrying guards. |
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| One of them asks all serious topers to banish moderate drinkers from parties and to drink until speech becomes impaired and walking impossible. |
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| Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen. |
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| And if that had happened, the unfortunate topers up there would have been suffering from withdrawal symptoms. |
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| The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously. |
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