Round and red, through the morning fog The sun's bright face Shone, like some jolly Toping dog Of Bacchus' race.
"The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Part 3."
Robert Seymour
Florinda that night at the garden-gate encounters Willmore, who, having been Toping in the town, is far from sober, and her cries at his advances attract her brother and servants, whom she eludes by escaping back to the house.
"The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)"
Aphra Behn
The former be found at once, in a large hall where sundry Goths were lounging and Toping, into the nearest corner of which he shrank, and stood, his late terror and rage forgotten altogether in the one new and absorbing thought-His sister might be in that house!....
"Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face"
Charles Kingsley