Tope , Chief Verger and Showman, and accustomed to be high with excursion parties, declines with a silent loftiness to perceive that any suggestion has been tendered to him. Tope work his way round the sunken rock--'when he came in, that it distressed him mightily to get his notes out: which was perhaps the cause of his having a kind of fit on him after a little. 'Sorry to hear from Tope that you have not been well, Jasper.'

And they fared out from the gloom of the mango tope , the old man's high, shrill voice ringing across the field, as wail by long-drawn wail he unfolded the story of Nikal Seyn [Nicholson] - the song that men sing in the Punjab to this day.

Close to her seat stands that of my father, on which he sits and topes like an immortal god.

Gareth Griffiths and Matthew Herring (right) with a 40lb and 30lb tope , respectively

(8) The stupa of Tope Kelan is important in that, apart from being the principal stupa in Hadda, it also contained 4th- and 5th-century coins including ones of the Kidarite and Alchon Huns, which provide us with chronological context for the Buddhist practice during the period of the Huna presence in this part of Afghanistan.

There is now a renewed search as the family council and chief makers continue to insist that Tope Akintade cannot reject the position because there was a covenant made by his father and it is a taboo for the position to be left unoccupied for years.

The mullet species were taken in Cork, the tope was caught off Greystones, Co Wicklow and the black bream in Kilmore, Co Wexford.

Intelligence information showed that the Tope gang was responsible for several robberies, kidnappings, and gun-running incidents in the Caloocan-Malabon-Navotas-Valenzuela (Camanava) area, Quezon City and Manila.

Tope are slim and powerful and can be caught from the shore.