The train rolls heavily on between dark masses of bush and stunted cactus, topped by waving palm-leaves, and here and there banana plantations, heavy with the grass-green fruit.
The attitude is placid and dignified like a Buddha statue; the face, now mutilated, is crowned by an enormous headdress of peculiar style, presenting a fantastic head with a diadem and medallion topped by feathers .
For there's the Doc sittin' in his shirtsleeves with four other gents around a green topped table decorated with stacks of chips.
Some towered skyward; others were lower; and all were topped with bulbous towers and graceful minarets that made a forest of gleaming opal light.
Why had so many of the queer, fuzzy topped shrubs with immense yam-shaped roots, which grew here been taken away during that first sleep, and during all his other periods of sleep?
After leaving the somewhat flat-topped southern portion, the most prominent mountain of the Zomba range is Njongone, which has a fine stream running past its northern base.
When that parapet was topped by a palisade of timber, they must have presented formidable obstacles indeed.
The turret is an oblong mass of stone-work, some twelve feet in width by six in depth, rising to a height of about twenty feet, andtopped with a singularly graceful hexagonal cupola.
A hawser parted and they saw her bows swing viciously shoreward, the jib-boom thrusting itself seemingly into the very sky as she topped a huge breaker.
It was topped by a man's felt hat and was dressed in a loose, shapeless coat and a scant skirt down to the tops of a pair of men's shoes.
Even the children came and peered in at the store door to see that strange, red-kerchief-topped figure behind Cap'n Abe's counter.
Then, she became aware of the massive form of a man topped by an enormous head of white hair rising in links and hinges from a chair in the corner till his figure towered above the little woman.
One day the first shoal of flying fish is seen--a flight of glittering birds that, flushed by the sudden approach of the vessel, skim away over the waters and turn in the cover of a white-topped wave.
Moreover, behind the first row of positions, which practically runs along the edge of an unbroken line of steep flat-topped hills, there is a second row standing back from the edge at no great distance.
A high, flat-topped hill to the north-west promised a wide field of vision and a nearer listening point for the Ladysmith cannonade, which still throbbed and thudded dully.
We entered a succession of large cellars, paneled and ceiled in oak and floored with patterned tiles, where small round-topped wooden tables were set about.
The old church is of red brick, topped by a curious wrought-iron steeple, and is the shrine to which come all patriotic Swedes, there to contemplate the departed glories of their fatherland.
But half an hour later, as he sat behind his little marble-topped table, smoking and sipping a liqueur, his eyes fell upon something across the square which brought him to his feet with a sudden exclamation.
He took up the memoranda which Captain Stewart had laid upon the marble-topped table between them, and read the notes through.
The journey ends, usually in the rain, among iron sheds that are topped on the far side by the rigging and smoke-stacks of great liners.
Besides, why should a Londoner, and even an East-Ender whose familiar walls are topped by mastheads, believe in the nearness of the ocean?
To the northward is Clark's Island, where the Pilgrims first landed, a similarly round-topped mass rising from the water.
At the eastern horizon behind the cape rise the hazy, bisected, round-topped peaks of Mount Desert, thirty miles away.
His head was topped with an unruly shock of black hair which he tossed back with a hand that commanded instant attention.
From the top projected a spike topped with a ball.
Man's mountings of mind-sight I checked not, Till range of his vision Has topped my intent, and found blemish Throughout my domain.
She could take the old, abandoned road which led up over the ridge topped by Taylor Rock, and she would find the walking easier, perhaps.
He had never credited himself with a streak of idealism, nor even with an imagination, yet his pulse quickened when they topped the last steep slope and stood upon the peak of the world--this immediate, sunlit world.
He helped her upon a high, flat-topped boulder that overlooked the balsam thicket and manzanita slope, and together they faced the debauchery of the flames.
They must be well supplied with water, and let them be topped at the first joint.
Be particular in not suffering them to run to too much vine; six joints is quite sufficient at the first, and afterwards always keep them topped at the first or second joint.
If they are impregnated in the same manner as prescribed in the directions for the cucumber, there will be no difficulty in setting the fruit, which will also show much bolder, and possess greater strength when topped in close.
After the plants have been topped, as above directed, let them run to six joints, and then top them again, when they will show fruit, which may be topped at the first joint.
From the summit of a bare-topped hill, up which they had been mounting slowly from the lower forest levels, Dusty Star paused for the first time to look back.
We could just see the points of the northern flat-topped ranges beyond them.
To our left there were some undulating hills, and beyond them the summits of some remarkable flat-topped hills were visible.
In vain did the men urge their bullocks over successive ridges of deep loose sand, the moment they had topped one there was another before them to ascend.
The same abrupt points, and detached flat-topped hills, characterised their northern as well as the southern extremity.
I was not able to take more than one bearing from the hill I had ascended, to a remarkable flat-topped hill nearly N.
The other bank of the stream was open ground--a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loop-holed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
Instantly the wall is topped with a fierce roll of smoke for a distance of hundreds of yards to right and left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: peaked; plumed; tipped
