On one occasion, while clambering a steep rocky ascent, his head overtopping his haunches, he literally performed three of the most wonderful backward headsprings ever recorded in equine history.
Afar up the wood-crowned hill, the overtopping trees shot forth pinnacles and walls and streamers of arrowy fire.
To the rear of these, overtopping all at intervals, lofty snow-clads lifted their white crowns into the sunshine.
The Guelphs were giants, visibly overtopping all their contemporaries.
All along the line, fragments of rocks roll down from the overtopping crests, crushing and decimating the compact mass of soldiers below.
All up the south side of the cabin they grew, overtopping the eaves in their riotous perfection.
In the crowded street I saw Locasto's hat overtopping all others, so that I had no difficulty in shadowing him.
Almost beneath them stood the reverend church of Uffington overtopping the ancient village clustering round it.
The fire rages fiercely," cried Solomon Eagle, gazing at the vast sheet of flame overtopping the buildings near them, "but we must keep it alive.
It rose with a regular majestic motion, soon overtopping the trees that grew near, and still mounting on towards the summit of the cliff.
You would send your glance in every direction, expecting to see chimneys and turrets overtopping the trees; but in this you would be disappointed.
Overtopping these green, grassy slopes are dark, rugged rocks, and higher still the grim white region of--winter.
Overtopping our camping ground are a pair of dilapidated brick minarets, attached to what Kiftan Sahib calls the Jami Mesjid, and which he furthermore volunteers was erected by Ghengis Khan.
The site is nearly in the middle of ancient Rome, and commands a fine view of the other hills, the Capitol only overtopping it.
Overtopping all are the fields of snow, the great reservoirs of the springs and rivers which fertilize the country.
They lie concealed in the intricate growth of houses with a few stalks of mastheads here and thereovertopping the roof of some four-story warehouse.
At the upper angle of the square stood a lofty cross or Holy Rood, overtopping the low roofs of the shops and booths in its neighborhood.
She wore a wide-brimmed hat of straw, overtoppingcurls as crisp as her temper.
His brain was in a seething turmoil; but overtopping every other emotion was anger at the man who had arrived so inopportunely.
But overtopping every other sensation was cold, deadly fear; fear for another one cares for, which is infinitely more gripping and powerful than an emotion involving self alone.
Overtopping them, far away, he saw Sant; and he fancied, but was not quite sure, that he could distinguish Disscourn as well.
Far to the east the valley was closed by a lofty tableland, connecting the two chains of mountains, but overtopping even the most towering pinnacles.
The parson was a slender, wiry man, with keen blue eyes, a serious mouth, and an overtopping forehead, from which the hair was always brushed straight back.
His hair, brushed straight back from the overtopping forehead, had grown snowy white, and the eager, delicate face beneath wore a strange pathos from the very fineness of its nervously netted lines.
