Meaning of topplesome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by toppling

Examples

“There you are, Button," she said, quite naturally, with a little laugh, "and here am I, and I've been dreaming we and the rest were off among the stars in chase of a fly-away canary, in a dreadfully topplesome breeze-blown shallop, that, now I am awake and think of it, must have been the 'wooden shoe.'”

“In this case, it was a towerlike and topplesome sixteen-ouncer that brought a fresh unrest not to the kitchen table (how could I eat?), but to an outlying one, a step table, a side table, the one I strewed with my collectings, my pertainings, [...]”

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