On the car tops were the able-bodied men and on the first floor were the sick and the officers, with scarcely room to stretch themselves.
For the officers' swords in the infantry, usually, were applied to switching off the tops of grass and daisies, or killing snakes; few of them ever tasted gore.
Above the Sherman Fall the stream flows through rapids, the chasm broadening and the lofty walls rising higher as the hill-tops are more elevated, mounting to two hundred feet above the torrent at a lofty point called the Pinnacle.
The sides are frequently cut by lateral fissures, making remarkable formations, and the tops of the enclosing crags are fringed with a dense growth of cedars.
Especially is it so when the mountain-tops are enveloped in vapour.
The worst of men has a rude sense of duty whichtops the attainments of the best.
We are like the dwellers in some island of the sea, who, in some conditions of the atmosphere, can catch sight of the gleaming mountain-tops on the mainland across the stormy channel between.
It touched the mountain tops of the loftiest spirits: a Moses, a David, an Elijah caught the early gleams; while all the valleys slept in the pale shadow, and the mist clung in white folds to the plains.
Taken as a fresh young vegetable in the spring, or early summer, Nettle tops make a very wholesome and succulent dish of greens, which is slightly laxative; but during Autumn they are hurtful.
The leaves and flowers are of a warm pungent taste, and of an agreeable aromatic smell; therefore if the tops and blossoms are reduced to a powder and added to cold salad herbs they give a comforting cordial virtue.
The young tops of the Hop plant if gathered in the spring and boiled, may be eaten as asparagus, and make a good pot-herb: they were formerly brought to market tied up in small bundles for table use.
The inhabitants of Tola, Jura, and other outlying districts, now brew a potable beer by mixing two-thirds of heath tops with one of malt.
When cultivated, it yields from its leaves and tops an essential oil which includes a chemical principle, or "stearopten.
Moreover, this Hypericum oil made from the tops is highly useful for healing bed sores, and is commended as excellent for ulcers.
Together with the flowering tops they contain an essential volatile fragrant oil, which is carminative, warming, and tonic.
It was chiefly brewed from the rind and tops of firs, and was esteemed very powerful against the formation of stone, and to cure all scorbutick distempers.
Meyrick says, inveterate headaches after resisting every other remedy, have been cured by taking daily at breakfast a decoction made from the leaves and tops of the Wood Betony.
This genuine Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) is a small plant, bearing yellow flowers in circular umbels on the tops of the stalks, which flowers are followed by seeds like those of the Fennel, but larger.
The young tops of the plant are boiled in Hampshire for hogs' food, and the peculiar flavour of Hampshire bacon has been attributed to this custom.
Its leaves and tops have a strong aromatic odour, and a penetrating warms bitterish taste which is rather nauseous.
In Cornwall the flowering tops have been employed for the cure of epilepsy throughout several generations with singular success; though the use of the leaves only for this purpose has caused disappointment.
Under Moonshee's window the topsof houses huddled, presenting forms more or less fantastic according to the purse or caprice of the proprietors.
Upon one limb a touch of sunlight hung on the mountain tops with a crescent red-yellow sheen.
A summer-house peered above the mulberry tops at the lower end of the garden, and a hermitage of Our Lady of Solitude about a mile distant hung upon a rocky height which rose like an isle out of the sea of forest.
His eyes were out of the window on the golden tops of the towers of Sunnycrest.
As David recollected him, indeed, he had last been seen standing beside one of the veranda posts, with gloomy eyes fixed on the towers of Sunnycrest that showed red-gold above the tree-tops in the last rays of the setting sun.
The tops of the mountains are lofty, and perpetually covered with snow; but in the valleys, during the summer season, vegetation is rather abundant.
On some October morning there is a heavy hoarfrost on the grass and along the tops of the fences; and at sunrise the leaves fall from the trees of our avenue, without a breath of wind, quietly descending by their own weight.
How often, no doubt, had he paced to and fro along the avenue, attuning his meditations to the sighs and gentle murmurs and deep and solemn peals of the wind among the lofty tops of the trees!
For a few minutes the cannonade was tremendous, and the men in the tops could hardly see the decks for the wreck of flying splinters.
The quantity was so great that, as it cooled and became hardened, it gradually filled up all the streets and ran over the tops of the houses.
They begin their work in companies, and build immense canopies, like umbrellas, in thetops of trees.
Alas, the mountain-tops that look so green and fair!
A faithful nurse thou hast; the dam that did thee yean Upon the mountain-tops no kinder could have been.
These are of such immense proportions, that from a distance their tops seem to reach the clouds.
The snowy summits which peered over the fir-tops were prophets of death to him; for how should he, who had gone hither and thither under the sun of the tropics for sixty years, live chained among the snows?
As after our fatigues we were anxious to have comfortable couches, we cut down the tops of a number of small spruce firs, with which we covered the floor, using our knapsacks for pillows, and before long three of us were fast asleep.
Our next care was to cut down a good supply of spruce firtops to form couches.
He had made himself a bed from the tops of spruce firs.
Tall trees surrounded the place, their tops waving to and fro and bending to the gale.
Clouds covered the tops of the peak and rain fell almost continuously, churning the ground into ankle-deep mud.
The armored bulldozer drove over the positions, its blades cutting off the tops of the foxholes, after which small arms fire into the holes killed the occupants.
A rifle platoon mounted the tops and sides of five tanks and headed north towards Buri.
Through its rifts we saw the topsof the buildings.
We sneaked along the cliff tops until over the rookeries; then lay flat on our stomachs and peered cautiously down on our quarry.
The longer fibers, or tops as they are now called, to distinguish them from the noil, or short fibers, are collected and are again passed through a second comb.
The goats make their own living on the tops of the sage brush, which protrude through the snow.
The dark hours filed past, and jocund day, according to Shakespeare and Romeo, stood tiptoe on the mountain-tops of Camanti and Basiri, when the travelers were awakened by a fierce and terrible cry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: paragon; topping; tops
