Rising nobly among its noble fellows, one stupendous peak reared its giant head thousands of feet above the others.
From the wind that blew about me I guessed that I must be upon some exposed peak of ridge.
When I looked I saw a pennant fluttering from the peak of the forward lateen yard--a red, white, and blue pennant, with a single great white star in a field of blue.
I recall almost his exact words: "'You need merely come to the foot of the highestpeak of the Mountains of the Clouds.
It was circular, the structural members rising to a near-peak overhead.
Looking up from the crooked street towards the hills we saw the peak of the Puig Mayor stand out against the darkening eastern sky, sublime, magnificent, bathed in a flood of roseate light.
Lamb, an old-time New South Wales land office official, and then a Peak Downs squatter.
Had money been freely spent in exploration, as at the Mount Morgan Gold Mine, and only moderate dividends paid to the shareholders, it is believed that the life of the Peak Downs Copper Mine would have been indefinitely prolonged.
The only provincial council established under the Act, however, was one for the Peak Downs district, of which all the members were Crown lessees.
Among the highest points of the Bernise Alps and the Jungfrau and the Matterhorn, which latter peak is from twelve to fourteen thousand feet high.
The worth of one medal or one little ornament on the peak of one of his statutes might have comforted the broken heart and kep' alive the starved body and gin him some comfort.
Many of the Sierra summits are capped with volcanic rock, and Lassen's Peak and Mount Shasta are extinct volcanoes.
In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect.
At either end the snow stood high up in the darkness, on the peak of the Tolbooth and among the chimneys of the Castle.
To so steep an apex does this famous peak narrow, that but one person can stand on the summit at a time, nor was even this possible till the snow was beaten down.
The volcanic peak of Osorno and the whole snowy Cordilleras were unveiled.
The other American undertaking is a tunnel under the famous Pike's Peak in Colorado which when completed will be twenty miles long.
The St. Gothard also connecting Switzerland and Italy under the lofty peak of the Col de St. Gothard is nine and one-fourth miles in length.
It begins near Georgetown, will pass under Gray's peak and come out near Decatur, Colorado, in all a length of twelve miles.
This headland was terminated by a curious peak that seemed not to be more than a mile away from us.
The Basin was dropping away beneath them; the prospect to the north was broadening as peak after peak raised itself into the line of ascending vision.
To reach yonder snowy peak would consume the greater part of a week.
As he watched, the peak was lost in the blackness of one of those sudden storms that gather out of nothing about the great crests.
He had climbed thepeak and looked into the county of Fauquier with its swarming slave population.
From the top of this peak stretches the county of Fauquier, the beginning of the Black Belt of the South.
His chosen Captains never passed the sentinel peakinto Fauquier county.
The more he studied the hills that led to High Knob, a peak two thousand four hundred feet in height, the more canny seemed the choice of Brown.
He changed his mind in the first thirty minutes, as he stood studying the mountain peak that stood sentinel at the gateway of the Black Belt.
P'rhaps if I was to say it looked like the mould that that 'are very peak was cast in, afore it was cold and stiff, and sot up on eend, I should come as near the mark as any thing I know on.
These were rude but very picturesque log cabins, built in a clearing amongst a steep chaos of rocks, with the glaciers and the majestic peak of the Hoch Gall shining above all.
And the solitude about the toppling peak of old Sugar Loaf seemed to resume some lost sublimity, as the king resumed his throne among the winds.
Where the peakleaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.
When the old pine beneath the toppling peak of Sugar Loaf had stood vacant all the long golden hours of the morning, two crows flew up from the fir-woods to investigate.
The male, indeed, growing audacious after the king had been a whole week absent, presumed so far as to adopt the old pine-tree under the peak for his perch, to the loud and disconcerting derision of the crows.
However that may be, he had forgotten the piercing eyes that kept watch from the peak of old Sugar Loaf.
Once more he launched himself from his watch-tower under the peak of Sugar Loaf, and sailed away over the serried green tops of the forest.
In echoes it rang from the sides of the Jumbe Rock, and from many a peak lying far beyond.
The top of the rock was somewhat cone-shaped, and in order to reach the peak and the colonies on the west side we had to make our way through this rookery of the murres.
One of the most interesting animal games that I ever saw was played by a flock of butterflies on the very top of Mount Hood, whose pointed snow-piled peak looks down from the clouds over the whole vast State of Oregon.
I crept round the sharp slope of the peak and down to the edge of the rock-slide.
No, not merely to see the petrels: what I really wished to do was to stay all night on the storm-swept peak in order to hear the petrels come back to their nests on the rock in the dusk and dark.
Besides, I had come to stay on the peak all night; I could do my work well enough in the dark.
An hour later I saw them round the breast of a peak far along on the trail and disappear.
PAGE 15 Mount Hood: is the highestpeak of the Cascade Range in Oregon.
Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder!
I took a Journey into the Peak in search of plants and other curiosities.
The foreground is broken into picturesque inequalities, and in the rear rises a succession of swelling hills, part of the great Kerridge range—the stony barriers of the Peak country.
It was upon its broad peak that George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, received his “first illumination.
I laid into them halyards, and I had the mainsail up to the peak afore Jonadab got the anchor clear of the bottom.
His togs were cut to fit his spars, and he carried 'em well--no wrinkles at the peak or sag along the boom.
It is fed by rivulets and subterranean springs originating in the Alban Mount, or Monte Cavo, the most elevated peak of the volcanic group just mentioned, which rises to the height of about three thousand feet.
