But a firm and constant will surmounts everything, and the idea of the country gives joy and courage to the saddest and the weakest.
In the same church, beside the door of the cloister, a singular facesurmounts an interminable epitaph.
Male and female figures, representing rivers, lying on a bed of roses, enframe the arched pediment which surmounts the grotto.
The shield is enclosed within a large letter L, a French crownsurmounts it, and on a ribbon at the foot is seen Joe L--.
An imposing helmet with blue mantling surmounts the shield, and the motto, Moins faire mieux faire, is given on a ribbon which encloses the whole design.
The sheet-net and the labyrinth that surmounts it are objects visible from afar, owing to their whiteness and the height whereat they are placed.
The bastion which surmounts the burrow, therefore, takes its origin from the temporary lid.
This was accordingly done; and the turban-crested pillar that surmounts the slab now only serves to indicate the spot where rested for a few brief days the dishonoured head of Halet Effendi.
But pardon me, Messer Domenico," said Macchiavelli, sticking his thumbs into his belt, and speaking with that cool enjoyment of exposition which surmountsevery other force in discussion.
His armed effigy surmounts the tomb, and the inscription says he died on St. George's Day, 1394.
A statue of the Baptist surmounts the entire font.
Above the retable is the Madonna with two saints on either side: the crucifix surmounts the whole composition.
She has always, I know not with what justice, enjoyed a fairer fame than most ladies who have occupied her position, and this fairness is expressed in the delicate statue that surmounts her tomb.
If he is really in earnest, as I have been, he surmounts the former difficulty before he surmounts the latter.
Sometimes the head of an animal surmounts the body of a man or woman; sometimes, though more rarely, the opposite arrangement obtains.
In modern times, when piety or pride stimulates to the decoration of a tomb, all the care of the architect, the sculptor and the painter is given to the outside, to the edifice which surmounts the actual grave.
A necklace of beads or pearls surrounds the neck, the face is apparently masked or at least the features are ideally fantastic, and an immense headdress, as large as all the rest of the figure, surmounts the whole in semicircular form.
The well-carved head of a monster, two feet eight inches broad, surmounts the head of a seated human form, a common device in the fashioning of Nicaraguan gods.
On either side, against the arching which surmounts it, were two large statues.
A colossal statue surmounts the grave of the great De Witt Clinton, the Governor of New York who built the Erie Canal and thus secured the commercial supremacy of the city.
The cross now surmounts the tallest castle tower, and it is surrounded by noble trees which have grown higher than the turrets, while on the hill behind, and almost overshadowing the little castle, is a huge red-brick convent building.
It is a wonderful contrast, this old portion of Granville that surmounts the promontory, to the ephemeral and gay aspect of the watering-place on the northern side.
It is the wooden chimney-stack, covered with oak shingles, that surmounts the roofs of most of the cottages.
It is fifty feet from the ground to the eaves, and one hundred and thirty-five to the top of the flag-staff, which surmounts the belvidere.
In these verses you see how one crueltie surmounts another by degrees till it come to very slaughter and beyond, for it is thought a despite done to a dead carkas to be an euidence of greater crueltie then to haue killed him.
Her haire surmounts Apollos pride, In it such bewty raignes.
When it surmounts a single pit, or a single division of the pit, the compartment intended for the upcast is made air-tight at top, by placing strong buntons or beams across it, at any suitable distance from the mouth.
One part, the last part, of a process which surmounts it is visible.
The fine bronze crucifix which surmounts it is by Gianbattista da Verona.
When an ordinary surmounts an animal or another charge.
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