"Custom 27. That the lord of the said manor, for the time being, cannot cut down more trees than one, from any one customary tenement in the life-time of any customary tenant thereof, for the repairs aforesaid, nor can he take the loppings, toppings, boughs, or bark of such trees so by him cut down, nor can he carry the same away.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Even now I have but to shut my eyes to see the leering face of Albertus, to stand once more trembling with terror and see that green shadow jump into the dusk with hellish glee and frolicsome skippings and toppings gallop away, to walk into the old library at home and see poor Price with his knees drawn up and eyes fixed open in extreme terror-But enough.
"War and the Weird"
Forbes Phillips R. Thurston Hopkins
Miss toppings, this whole skirt is an unmitigated muddle.
"The Other Girls"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney