A few, comparatively very few, shells as yet came over to our trenches and burst about the crests of the hills where our line extended.
An aeroplane came rapidly from over the crests of the hills and dropped down beside the parent ship and was hauled on board.
It was a complicated position, for a series of small crests had had to be won before Chatham's Post was established and an uninterrupted view obtained of the Turkish huts along Pine Ridge and the plain where the olive-groves were.
If the homologous crests of two contiguous faces do not meet each other, they should be reconciled by joining two points taken on each of them at half a meter from the intersection of their projections.
I was particularly struck with this in the case of a family who lived quite isolated at the crests of the Ghauts, and the head of it told me that, though tigers were often about they never touched his cattle.
April and the last day of September, at a Cardamom plantation on the crests of the Ghauts.
Sixty feet higher, the cornice of the gallery was given its graceful outer slope to shoot the climbing wave-crests of an Atlantic gale away from the lantern.
We love to link our names with the heroic times of Europe; and our armorial shields and crests confess the pleasing illusions of chivalry.
The crests looked beautiful when they were pasted into albums," said Avis.
How easily it could swirl away their light weights, and dash them against those jagged points opposite, or sweep them out into the midst of those long waves, the white crests of which were just dimly visible through the wall of fog!
This law it is possible to represent graphically as a curved line; a succession of crests and hollows as in all wave-lines.
The tops of the wave-crests come with remarkable regularity, so that there are two wave-crests in each twenty-eight-day month.
If the wave-crests facing page 32 are studied, it will be seen that they spread over two or three days and show several small minor crests.
Great forest-clad hills reared their torn and barren crests to enormous heights out of the dead level of the prairie.
Any dwelling of man within reach of the searching eye must have been hidden in the troughs between the crests of summer grass.
XXIII After ten days' journey the caravan finally crossed the depressions in the crests of mountains and entered into a different country.
Animals could not be seen; only from time to time on thecrests of rocks monkeys squatted, resembling on the blue background those fantastic idols which in India adorn the borders of temples.
The Salii in their dancing game; the naked Luperci, With crests that bore the tuft of wool and shields from out the sky, There had he wrought: the mothers chaste in softly-gliding car Bore holy things the city through.
The sky was again all covered with clouds, and fine, warm rain had come on, pattering gayly on the crests of the waves.
The sun shone more and more brightly on the crests of the breakers, which, in the distance on the horizon, looked blood-red.
Swaying majestically over the troubled sea, it dashed aside the threatening crests of the waves.
He saw only the line of the horizon of dull sombre hue--no object visible upon it, except here and there the white crests of the waves.
Don Cornelio saw the intrepid swimmer rise to the surface, at some distance off, and then lost sight of him altogether behind the curling crests of the waves.
Fast above the indigo crests stir the light clouds, harried by the west wind whereon the hawk floats across the valley.
The crest of the year's youth merges like all crests into the wave beyond, renewed forever like the waves.
Yarrow with its balsam fragrance and fernlike leaf, the first delicate wild carrot asway, goldfinch yellow of the moth mullein, cloverheads of the Tyrian dye, sunny spray of mustard, lie scattered on the crests of hayfield waves.
Out along the crests of the winding cañon the rifles are ringing again.
And as soon as the sun had withdrawn his last mellow beam from the crests of the mountains, unearthly splendors burst over the magic city.
About the entire system there is such a ghostly air, such a terrific frown, as is recalled by no other chain of crests and cliffs, however bold or life-deserted.
Now and then a deep, dense cloud-stratum will cover the crests and envelop the summit slopes for days.
In the Atlantic, there is very seldom any portion of the ocean luminous, except the crests of the waves; and these mostly appear so during wet, murky weather.
All around us the silent forest threw its encircling arms, spreading up the slopes, higher and higher, to crown the crests with the little pines and hemlocks and balsam fir.
The hills bore on their crests enormous mushrooms of granite, which affected the quaintest shapes.
The water is much disturbed, and full of smallcrests of waves.
It was the most lovely moonlight night conceivable, and the beams lit up the crests of the foaming waves as they came boiling over the rapids.
At no possible array of a man should I tremble; and blazonry has no power of inflicting wounds, and crests and bell bite not[124] without the spear.
But, throughout, my life has resembled a barque tossed on the crests of perfidious billows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
