There is a man above at a high loophole, the topmost cave of a warehouse which you can see has been exposed to commerce and the elements for ages; he pulls in a bale pendulous from the cable of a derrick.
The "resemblance" soon sank beneath the waves, as prophesied, but Little O'Grady continued to ride on the topmostcrest with unabated enthusiasm.
Daffingdon bit at the end of the penholder and made a dog-ear on the topmost of the steel-gray sheets.
Outside of one of his two unscreened windows there was an iron grating--the topmost landing of a fire escape.
I'll do my best, of course," she began briskly, then paled and uttered a sharp exclamation as her eyes took in the topmost picture.
It was Penny's friendly voice, hailing him from the topmost landing of the steep stairs.
For there was a light, of a kind, carried down by countless reflections and refractions from the lit, wet surfaces of the topmost leaves.
Few were the trees in the ancient wood whose topmost branches did not twine closely with their neighbour trees.
He was a tall powerful man, and his bristle of scalp-locks and eagle feathers made him look a giant in the dim light, for a good eight feet lay between his beaded moccasin and the topmost plume of his headgear.
Here he had been engaged on the twofold business of surveying the disposition of the English army and in gathering a pocketful of fruit which remained upon the tree's topmost boughs.
Then, all being made safe, he set a watch upon the walls and saw that there was wood in the iron cradle on the topmost tower in case it should be needful to light the beacon and bring aid.
And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back.
Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.
From somewhere up in the sky, under the topmost diamonded arch, there came a rumbling and a rushing-- It thrilled them, agitated them.
On thetopmost crag stand out in bold relief the superb ruins of Crussol.
Therefore, some of the bulkheads of the under-water portion of all passenger ships should be continued (of lighter construction) right through the decks reserved for passenger accommodations, to the topmost deck of the ship.
The passenger decks should be intersected at frequent intervals by steel bulkheads, extending from side to side of the ship and carried up to include the topmost tier of staterooms.
In the topmost pane of the traceries, the Virgin is seen emerging from a great lily.
The topmost story of almost all the dwelling-houses is not walled up on the street side.
And we to-day must light our torches at that very topmostflame of freedom, or they will smoke instead of burning.
For the obtaining of the ballot by woman is but stepping up the first round of the ladder, whose topmost round takes hold of perfection.
There is the warm, bright, still summer day; when everything seems asleep, and the topmost branches of the tall trees do not stir in the azure air.
The man handed the topmost of the pile, and went noiselessly away.
Some of the species do not retire to caves and hollow trees for shelter during their hours of sleep, but suspend themselves by their hind legs from the topmost branches of the trees whose fruit affords them nourishment.
Successive additions are made, until at the last the Goat is perched on the topmost of some nine or ten pieces of wood balanced on each other, the whole looking like a stout reed marked off with joints.
There was a fierce struggle, and then, to my intense relief, I saw our men on the topmost pinnacle, and I knew the position was gained.
Sir Colin, meanwhile, had fixed his Head-Quarters in the Martinière, on the topmost pinnacle of which he caused a semaphore to be erected for communication with Outram.
We went on tiptoe towards the altar-rail, and knelt upon the topmost step.
I was standing on the topmost step waiting to see them off, and Mr. Nyle, looking at me to attract my attention, struck an attitude exactly like that in which they had surprised Dr.
She saw him at the arena of Arles, standing on the topmost tier a few yards distant from her, watching the red ball of the sun sink down into the mists of the grey Camargue.
It is a dangerous place on which to stand, that topmost ledge of the amphitheatre, with no parapet and a sheer drop to the street below.
It was the woman who had stood by him on the topmost ledge of the amphitheatre, drinking in that glorious fiery sunset over the grey Camargue.
At sunset we climbed up to the topmost tier and stood together as though on an island tower in the midst of a sea of marshland.
As I advanced he retreated before me, until, seizing the topmost boughs of a great thorny bush, he swung his body to one side and wrenched it out of the earth by the roots.
Presently a large owl came noiselessly flying by, and, perching on the topmost boughs of a neighbouring tree, began hooting a succession of monotonous notes, sounding like the baying of a bloodhound at a vast distance.
Twelve times they measured the long light of day And night's bleak gloom and urged thro' wounds their way; Till on the topmost ridge their camp was flung High o'er the steepy crags, in airy distance hung.
At last we attained the topmost peak and beheld with the greatest delight that what had been denied us the day before was now vouchsafed to us.
But, raging and grinding his teeth in his efforts, he toiled on till the topmost step was reached, and there he paused, chilled now by a terrible and despairing sense of his position.
With a cry The foe press on; these fill the trench below, These to the topmost towers the blazing firebrands throw.
This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor.
Close at her side a gay butterfly hovered about the solitary little white flower which grew from a bare rock on the topmost summit.
Now the topmost boughs of the linden, spite of their dense foliage, permitted a glimpse of the broad courtyard which separated the patrician residence from the street.
XXXV The tropics vanish, and meseems that I, From Halkerside, from topmost Allermuir, Or steep Caerketton, dreaming gaze again.
Here Hazel Creek at its topmost springs has a voice like a bird.
