Lexicographical Neighbors of Topliner
Literary usage of Topliner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"You remember the topliner in the old copy-books—"Honesty is the best policy."
That's it. I'm the only honest man in this republic. The government knows it; ..."
2. News Notes of California Libraries by California State Library (1920)
"The address would have been a topliner at a general session of the American
Library Association, and besides would have given the uninitiated some pertinent ..."
3. Short Story Classics (American) by William Patten, William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Charles Heber Clark, Hallie Erminie Rives, Maragaret Wade Campbell Deland, P.F. Collier & So (1905)
"You remember the topliner in the old copy-books—"Honesty is the best policy."
That's it. I'm the only honest man in this republic. The government knows it; ..."
4. Trying Out Torchy by Sewell Ford (1912)
"Why, he's a topliner! We're tryin' to sign him up for a two years' contract." "
Then he ain't been shot or carved up by Boozy Bill yet? ..."
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