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These guiding principles are advanced with brisk savvy in Royal Flash, which has to do with the exploits of Captain Harry Flashman, a rogue, prig, tosspot and coward, and proud of every bit of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood.

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Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene Ysa�e, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life.

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Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint.

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Pitchforking statesmen and tosspot reformers will be unable to play at pitch-and-toss with reputations not submitted for the performance.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)