The mountain was very high and with steep sides, and the way to it led through narrow passes, which were here and there overtopped by high walls of rock.
Bird's-foot lotus, with red claws, isovertopped by the grasses.
When the young apples take form and shape the grass is so high even the buttercups areovertopped by it.
These increased so much that one field became yellowish all over, the stalks overtopped the clover, and overcame its green.
Everything is on a slope, overtopped by the green hill behind.
After dipping into several depressions and surmounting several yokes, we suddenly overtopped the last ridge and looked down upon a tableland, which bore, like a tray of tea-things, the white buildings of a little village.
I didn't mind him calling me "little," for he so overtopped me intellectually that in his presence I never realised that I had grown tall.
The arum-fringed lane widens before the outer wall of the church, overtopped by its triangular gable.
There were three or four more above that, so that the summit overtopped the city.
It was undoubtedly partly due to that, for Roger overtopped any one in Mexico.
In this struggle for dominance, some survive and tower above the others, but many become stunted and fail to grow, while the majority become entirely overtopped and succumb in the struggle; see Fig.
A few may have grown to large size but the rest usually are decrepit, and overtopped by the larger trees.
As soon as she had finished reading the letter to Margaret, she retired to a beautiful knowe that overtopped the burn, and seated herself among the long yellow broom, where the most pleasant of her days had passed with her James.
They had discovered a new occupation, that of salvaging the driftwood, and found it so enthralling that for the present it overtopped all other amusements.
While Garth and his two coadjutors were still listening, the great clock--from the tower thatovertopped the mansion--tolled the hour of twelve.
Its great triangle seemed to reach up to the sky, for we had hoisted on the foremast the great fine-weather gaff topsail and its yard overtopped the mast-head by quite two yards.
Carrel pleased us by suggesting that we should camp even higher than before; and we accordingly proceeded, without resting at the col, until we overtopped the Tete du Lion.
The Chapel of the Rosary in the north transept is overtoppedby an effective arrangement of perpendicular window-framing, supporting a beautiful rose window of the spoke variety.
The triforium is remarkably beautiful and is overtopped by a range of clerestory windows which to an appreciable extent contain good early glass.
In vain did we listen to the watchful nightingale, whose song overtopped the noise of the water-gate.
The shrieking of the urchins, their mothers' scolding overtopped the general noise.
Lincoln overtopped all the rest, and as a consequence was called "the Sangamon Chief.
Further on, on the same side, was the small low church dedicated to Saint Gregory, overtopped by the south-western tower of the mightier parent fane.
Its trunk measured fifteen cubits round, and it overtopped the other trees as they overtopped the shrubbery.
But she was taller than the rest and overtopped them all by a head.
Carrel pleased us by suggesting that we should camp even higher than before; and we accordingly proceeded, without resting at the Col, until we overtopped the Tete du Lion.
Here, too, overtopped and subjugated by the superb spire of Lafayette, the long and curiously-distorted outline of Eagle Cliff pitches headlong down into the half-open aperture of the pass.
If we may credit late reports, the growth of the eucalyptus is so rapid in California, that the child is perhaps now born who will see the tallest sequoia overtopped by this new vegetable emigrant from Australia.
The same defect is often observed in pines which, from some accident of growth, have much overtopped their fellows in the virgin forest.
It was a solemnly lovely day--not a glowing one, and the line of black foreground on the opposite coast, overtopped by fainter and fainter jagged ridges of hills, had the beauty of an old Japanese master.
There must have been several acres of them, with their great leaves overtopped by huge rosy flowers.
We overtopped the brow of the ascent and found ourselves on the edge of a vast undulating pasture.
Nothing was clear but our own peak and the Cima Tosa, the huge mass of which now scarcely overtopped us by the height of its final snow-cap.
I am not aware whether my infantine movements were peculiarly seductive or not; but I have been told that I went through my gamut at a key that even overtopped the laughter around me.
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