Summit

Examples

• During my journey I might dream, and with buoyant wings reach the summit of life's high edifice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To be on good terms with St. Mark, seems to be the very summit of Venetian ambition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The walls are 15 feet thick at the base, and 18 inches at the top, and its summit is reached by an internal winding staircase and a central elevator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At length, a light on the summit of the rocky staircase gleamed through the snow and mist. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the latter case a difference of three inches in the column of mercury was shown at the summit and base of the ascent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mont Bl?nc; I wept like a child: Dear mountains! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Not a fortified town that they passed in all their journey was as strong, not a Cathedral summit was as high, as Mr Dorrit's castle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Here it is--the summit, the end--the last page of the third volume. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They stood now, on the summit of a little hill, commanding the open fields in every direction for three or four miles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Two leagues beyond the summit of the hill? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He knew he was following the track towards the summit of the slopes, where was the marienhutte, and the descent on the other side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the valley they swarmed in myriads, but never came to the summit of the ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Still more striking is the fact that peculiar Australian forms are represented by certain plants growing on the summits of the mountains of Borneo. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The following morning the rain poured down in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• When you stand at their roots, the summits seem in another region. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose a?rial summits hung over its recesses. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Their summits are never free from snow the year round. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped summits, or absolute deserts, the struggle for life is almost exclusively with the elements. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The sun set in calm majesty behind the misty summits of the Apennines, and its golden and roseate hues painted the mountains of the opposite shore. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Edited by Bessie