Lower Jordan, one of the summits of which is Mount Nebo, from which Moses beheld the Promised Land, and where he died and was buried.
Set on the verge of Urbino's towering eminence, it fronts a wave-tossed sea of vales and mountain summits toward the rising and the setting sun.
Slowly and toilsomely we ascended between the flanks of barren hills--gaunt masses of crimson and grey crag, clothed at their summits with short turf and scanty pasture.
These summits with a mighty trench to bind The chief resolves, gigantic though the toil.
But, when the seas were joined, Pelorus claimed His latest summits for Sicilia's isle.
The life of France has touched the loftiest summits of joy; it has plumbed the deepest abysses of sorrow.
They stand like trees in a forest, each stem priding itself on its isolation, though the roots interlace underground and the summits touch overhead.
And around him Roger saw, emerging from the semi-dark, faces turning like his own to the summits of the mountains and the billowy splendors there.
As the afternoon drew to its end, the shadows would creep up the mountain sides to their summits where glowed the last rays of the sun, painting the slate and granite crags in lovely pink and purple hues.
The light was full and strong, as if myriads and myriads of bude lights had been kindled on the summits of the Apennines.
The hills were covered to their very summits with the richest vegetation; and the multitude of villages sprinkled over them lent them an air of great animation.
It lies outspread like the sea, and runs far up to where the snow-clad summits of the Tyrol prop the northern horizon.
From the frozen summits of the Alps come the waters at which it daily drinks.
The snows of their summits were veiled in masses of cloud, which the southerly winds were bringing up upon them from the Mediterranean.
Now the Alps are seen with their sunlight summits and their shadowless sides; anon they veil their mighty forms in clouds and tempests.
Turning to the south, you have the purple summits of the Apennines rising above the plain.
Over the furrowed and ragged summits of the Cælian and Esquiline mounts were seen the early snows, glittering on the peaks of the Volscian and Sabine range.
We stepped out upon the lawn to enjoy the spectacle; for in the vicinity of the Alps, whose summits attract the fluid, the lightning is seldom dangerous to life.
As the breezes from their flashing summits stirred the leaves overhead, they seemed to speak of liberty.
Peace descended from the summits of the Alps, and peace breathed upon me from the tops of the elms.
After passing through a narrow opening between two rocks, whose summits seemed lost in the clouds, we found ourselves in a large enclosure, surrounded by lofty hills, on which grew a number of scattered pines.
After two days' journey we reached the foot of a chain of mountains, the summits of which were lost in the clouds.
These gigantic summits are entirely formed of icebergs, piled one on the top of the other, so that travellers cannot advance except by hewing steps out of the eternal ice.
You meet with a great number of these monumental towers on the summits of the mountains, and in the neighbourhood of the Lamaseries; and you may find them in countries whence the Mongols have been driven by the Chinese.
The black, flying clouds, deeply enshrouding the mountain tops, and dragging the summits of the low, woody hills around, closer and closer begirt the darkened earth.
The abrupt summits of cliffs and the tops of the highest forest trees are the favourite spots chosen by the great birds of prey.
The small ants endeavour with their burdens to climb to the summits of blades of grass; those who succeed are in safety with the eggs that they carry, for the Amazons do not climb.
In the west the moon was growing pale, and was just on the point of plunging into the black clouds which were hanging over the distant summits like the shreds of a torn curtain.
Behind it and in front of us rose the dark-blue summits of the mountains, all trenched with furrows and covered with layers of snow, and standing out against the pale horizon, which still retained the last reflections of the evening glow.
The sun was sinking behind the cold summits and a whitish mist was beginning to spread over the valleys, when the silence was broken by the jingling of the bell of a travelling-carriage and the shouting of drivers in the street.
The traveller is carried past lofty chains of hills clothed up to their summits in the deep green of the waving pine.
Even with the naked eye the sun-touched summits of the lunar Apennines may at that time be detected as a tongue of light projecting into the dark side of the moon.
With a view to locating this level grade between the summits and developing five per cent grades down the sides, a preliminary survey was made in October and November, 1916, under the direction of Mr. S.
These twosummits were about one mile apart, and the nature of the ground was such that support could be had for a practically level grade between the two.
The islands appear better furnished with wood than its banks, thesummits of which are almost bare.
The banks are high, composed of white clay and limestone, and their summits are richly clothed with a variety of firs, poplars, birches, and willows.
Some of the hills attain an elevation of five or six hundred feet, at the distance of a mile from the house; and from their summits a very picturesque view is commanded of the lake, and of the surrounding country.
There are many large loose stones both on their sides and summits composed of the same materials as the solid rock.
We passed the remains of two red-deer, lying at the bases of perpendicular cliffs, from the summits of which they had, probably, been forced by the wolves.
Ah, what a march was that through that dismal pass of Stonne, with the lofty summits o'erhanging them on either side, while through the woods on their right came the incessant volleying of the artillery.
The summits of the trees in the wood of la Falizette rose in rounded, fleecy masses over the rising ground of Seugnon.
On the left hand the precipitous summits rear their heads, devoid of vegetation, while to the right the gentler slopes are clad with woods down to the roadside.
These hills have their summitsapparently cut off about the same elevation, so as to leave flat surfaces at top.
To the west rose the Wind River Mountains, with their bleached and snowy summits towering into the clouds.
Everywhere against the horizon rose rugged summits and ridges, snow-clad and pine-clad, and partly separated by rocky gorges.
At times they would clear away and give us a prospect of the green island summits around us, with their bold headlands, the winding straits between, and the black rocks standing out in the sea.
You find yourself in a green opening, looking like the bottom of a drained lake with mountain summits around you.
From Conway, where the stage-coach sets you down for the night, in sight of the summits of the mountains, the road to the Old Notch is a very picturesque one.
The surface is singularly irregular, with summits of rock and pleasant hollows, open glades of pasturage and shady nooks.
From time to time we had glimpses of the summits of a long blue ridge of mountains to the east of us, and now and then the more varied and airy peaks of the mountains which lie to the west of the lake.
We crossed the track of a recent hurricane, which had broken off the huge pines midway from the ground, and whirled the summits to a distance from their trunks.
The lights already glimmered in the distance, and there was a faint suggestion of the coming dawn on the summits of the ridge to the west.
Day, meantime, although full blown and radiant on the mountain summitsaround us, was yet nebulous and uncertain in the valleys into which we were plunging.
From the craggy summits of Glen Crankie he lifted the banner of his forefathers, or raised the war-cry, 'Hulish dhu, ieroe!
One could see, if one would, the stately lines of dark summits along a far horizon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
