How To Use Surmounted In A Sentence
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The flag has a horizontal red stripe on top, and a wider white stripe with a gold crown surmounted by seven stars in the middle.
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Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
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The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
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The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
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The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side.
Ely Cathedral
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The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
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There are still a few technical problems/obstacles/hurdles to be surmounted before the product can be put on sale to the public.
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In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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There are, however, many cultural barriers to be surmounted on the path toward a unified and modernized Sierra Leone.
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The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
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Co. surmounted a similar set of challenges when it moved from a partnership to a public corporation.
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An altar surmounted by an urn stands on a high podium in front of the ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius.
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Inside is a nave surmounted by a generous barrel vault supported by large but simple columns and flanked by side aisles; a transept separates the nave from a central apse behind the altar.
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A bronze figure of Hercules supports an ormolu bowl surmounted by a triple row of plumes, from which rise the three candle branches.
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They were of red and black granite, and each was surmounted by a foliated encarpus of white marble.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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The central 12-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.
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Each corner of these square towers is again surmounted by a projecting octagon turret, machicolated.
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I knew that the arête would have to be surmounted and I quailed in fear.
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This bas-relief was surmounted by a projecting plinth, upon which a variety of chance growths had sprung up, — yellow pellitory, bindweed, convolvuli, nettles, plantain, and even a little cherry-tree, already grown to some height.
Eug�nie Grandet
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Composite vase, globular juglet with cylindrical neck and handle, surmounted by a second smaller one with cutaway neck and small handle.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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What a frabjous day for former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who have finally surmounted what seemed to be his most insurmountable object -- finding ...
Patricia Yarberry Allen: Want a Major Economic Indicator? The Sex Shop Uptown
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The original fireplace in the hall proved to have an elegant curved back and a decorative fireback of herringbone brick and was surmounted by a massive pine lintel.
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In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
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Lion of Scotland, ramping on his gold field within his tressure fiery and counter flory, but surmounted by a label divided into twelve, and placed upon a pen-noncel, or triangular piece of silk.
The Caged Lion
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She appeared amongst her companions, and vanished from them, with a degree of rapidity which was inconceivable and hedges, treillage, or such like obstructions, were surmounted by her in a manner which the most vigilant eye could not detect; for, after being observed on the side of the barrier at one instant, in another she was beheld close beside the spectator.
Anne of Geierstein
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Her first glimpse of it was through elaborate iron gates set between two large stone pillars surmounted by rampant lions.
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The neck was dressed with a layer of four or five three-cornered cravats, artistically laid, and surmounted with a cambrick stock, pleated and buckled behind.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
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The next moment Miss Kilspindie's front door opened and a white mask surmounted by a minefield of curlers peered out.
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It may be as well to mention an early Venetian design of about 1475 wherein the Emperor has a three-pointed trifoliate crown surmounted by a trefoil.
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At Clackmannan the dial on the lower end of a gable is circular on a square basis, and surmounted by a cherub's head.
The Book of Sun-Dials
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Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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In the centre is the shield of Piedmont Savoy surmounted by the closed crown of the King.
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The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
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I forgo interaction with eight biscuit tins surmounted by illuminated photographs.
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The Egyptian military standard was generally surmounted by the figure of a lion in gilded bronze, the lion being sometimes surmounted by a fan-shaped ornament.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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One side of this square was entirely occupied by an enormous, lofty, and handsome building, the central portion of which was surmounted by an immense dome, covered with plates of gold, arranged in tiers or bands of different shapes among which that of the lozenge was the most conspicuous, while each corner of the building was crowned with
In Search of El Dorado
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A staircase of 240 stone steps leads to the top of the hill, where, above and behind all the stateliness of the shrines raised in his honour, the dust of Iyeyasu sleeps in an unadorned but Cyclopean tomb of stone and bronze, surmounted by a bronze urn.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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At the extreme south end, between Kilchattan and Garroch Head, these conglomerates and sandstones are overlaid by a thick cornstone or dolomitic limestone marking the upper limit of the formation, which is surmounted by the cement-stones and contemporaneous lavas of Lower Carboniferous age.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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At lower left, one putto sits wedged between a sheaf of wheat that rests upon a pile of game, and grape vines surmounted by a cluster of hanging fowl.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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It remains for long enclosed within the calyptra formed by the further development of the archegonial wall and surmounted by the neck of the archegonium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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For years she surmounted her weekly shortfall by pooling her income and expenses with Elsa.
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Maxentius, saw in the clouds, as well as his whole army, the grand imperial standard called the labarum, surmounted with a
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Here, however, a case recorded by M.J. E. Planchon may be alluded to [77] wherein a quince fruit (_Cydonia_) was surmounted by five leaves, the surface of the pome being marked by as many prominences, which apparently corresponded to the five stalks of the calycine leaves.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Imagine a rambling, patchy house, the best part built of gray stone, and red-tiled, a round tower jutting at one of the corners, the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter: the ground shady with spreading trees: a great tree flourishing on one side, backward some
Daniel Deronda
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Her habit, if such it can be called, is a "dungaree" skirt of a hardly recognizable blue, so washed out is it, surmounted by a beautifully beaded buckskin shirt.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch
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The mound is surmounted by an old Turkish fort.
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The Lawrence County Courthouse, composed of stone and brick, has three stories surmounted by a massive tower in two stages capped by a segmental dome and cupola.
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Such chests were made in and near Concord, in eastern Massachusetts, and their distinguishing characteristics include fluted pilasters surmounted by bolection moldings, or ‘swelled friezes.’
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She surmounted the role's many difficulties with ease and grace and imbued the Czech language with particular bite.
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Many churches had four simple gables of equal size one on each face, surmounted by a central dome upon a drum.
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Facades on all sides, except the south, are tripartite with a central projecting section and plain walls rising from a rusticated base and surmounted by a balustrade.
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Below these words, a framed miniature, eight lines of text tall, depicts a domed structure surrounded by city walls surmounted by turrets, in turn surrounded by water.
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The contrast with the little study at Rugby, with its diamond-paned window, its matchboard panelling surmounted by a paper of one's own choosing, its ledge for photos and ornaments ( "bim ledge" so called), its eggshell blue cupboards, baize curtains and window box, was striking.
A Student in Arms Second Series
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They wear long black cloaks or mantles, edged with a frill of the same material, and on their heads a kind of bandeau or under-cap, turned up at the ears, surmounted by
Brittany & Its Byways
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It is a statuette, apparently of gold, or, more probably, of bronze-gilt -- a figure of Mercury, obviously, its head being surmounted with the petasus or winged hat, the usual accessory of that deity.
A Changed Man; and other tales
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The house was surmounted by a tall chimney.
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The distinctive insignia of the patriarch are the masnaftô (a form of head-dress), the phainô (a kind of cape or cope), the orarion (a kind of pallium), the tiara, or mitre (other bishops wear only the orarion and the mitre), the pastoral staff surmounted with a cross, and, in the Latin fashion, the pastoral ring and the pectoral cross.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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The city is semicircled by the Sar Mountains and surmounted by an old Turkish fortress; the mountains are the frontier with Albania and Kosovo.
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Above the cornice is a blocking course, surmounted by an attic, with an appropriate cornice and sub-blocking, to add to the height of the building.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
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Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane.
Wandering Heath
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Co. surmounted a similar set of challenges when it moved from a partnership to a public corporation.
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For instance, several alabasters depict the Trinity, with the crowned and bearded Father majestically robed and enthroned, supporting the crucified Son between his legs, the cross surmounted by the dove representing the Holy Spirit.
Giving Physical Form to Faith
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The tower was surmounted by an enormous statue, utterly out of scale with the building.
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There are still a few technical problems/obstacles/hurdles to be surmounted before the product can be put on sale to the public.
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The front door is surmounted by an elliptical recessed arch in which a glass with five vertical muntins has replaced the original wooden fan.
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An elaborate version, with four arches surmounted by an orb, is found on Henry V's chantry at Westminster Abbey, in fifteenth century English manuscripts, and on the pilgrim badges made for the putative saint, Henry VI.
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Built in 1907, the Port of Liverpool Building is surmounted by a green dome supported on pillars.
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As one minor obstacle was surmounted another one appeared on the horizon in the shape of my suit jacket and the fact that it was looking at me from inside the car that I couldn't get into.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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The viewing platform resembles a raised circular sheepfold and is surmounted by a weathervane depicting a front-load tractor.
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Topaz, and ensigned with a cross patee Pearl, surmounted of a pall of the last, charged with four crosses, formee, fitchee, Diamond, edged and fringed as the second.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The house in which Bardo lived was situated on the side of the street nearest the hill, and was one of those large sombre masses of stone building pierced by comparatively small windows, and surmounted by what may be called a roofed terrace or loggia, of which there are many examples still to be seen in the venerable city.
Romola
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It lay on the other side of the pontlevis -- the fosse between us -- and was of angular shape, surmounted by a statue of Charles V. of France, and, as De Lorgnac said, was already doomed to destruction to make way for the improvements contemplated by the King.
Orrain A Romance
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The fripperies, the jagged curves and inharmonious lines and colors of the so-called "adornments" are surmounted, and the naked figure stepping from their scattered pile is seen in its utter simplicity.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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The central 12-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.
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After arriving, we encountered a few administrative snafus, but we quickly surmounted them, and we were set to start carrier ops the next day.
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As it lay in the chancel an elegant crown of evergreens and roses, surmounted by a cross of immortelles, was placed at the head, and a wreath of japonicas and lilies at the foot of the casket.
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Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame.
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It has Tuscan columns, a frieze with triglyphs, metopes, guttae and mutules, and is surmounted by a triangular pediment.
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By and large, the problems with the site were successfully surmounted.
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He knew he was only perfectly appreciated in those meetings, unfortunately too few, in which ALL his hearers were prepared to follow him into those spheres which the ancients imagined to be entered only through a gate of ivory, to be surrounded by pilasters of diamond, and surmounted by a dome arched with fawn-colored crystal, upon which played the various dyes of the prism; spheres, like the Mexican opal, whose kaleidoscopical foci are dimmed by olive-colored mists veiling and unveiling the inner glories; spheres, in which all is magical and supernatural, reminding us of the marvellous worlds of realized dreams.
Life of Chopin
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The base of the steeple in face brick, is surmounted by a circular campanile of columns which house the carillon system.
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It would seem that about the thirteenth century the aspersorium assumed the modern form of a stick surmounted by a rose covered with bristles; at least such is what we infer from miniatures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Grey bricks, some with dragon motifs, were surmounted by wooden screens, vivid lattice and slender doors.
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Inside is a nave surmounted by a generous barrel vault supported by large but simple columns and flanked by side aisles; a transept separates the nave from a central apse behind the altar.
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For example, the portico's cornice, which in Egypt would exhibit cobra head uraei, is surmounted instead by a row of bearded caprine heads.
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The correct blazon, I believe, would be: Or, an eagle double-headed, displayed sable, dimidiated, and impaling gu. a key in pale argent, the wards in chief, and turned to the sinister; the shield surmounted with a marquis 'coronet.
Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc
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The scarf surmounted the gown
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The second had, instead of the crook, a knob which was often surmounted by a cross, and was called the ferula or cambuta.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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On the entablature is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who inaugurated Sir Richard Gresham's structure -- the centre figure of a number of others emblematic of the all-embracing commerce of this country, and surmounted by the words: 'The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852
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The boy from Tunapuna had fearlessly and single-handedly faced and surmounted all obstacles and carved a niche market from scratch.
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Fortunately, we have children who have surmounted these difficulties and who have been described by the Children's Lawyer as engaging, active and well-adjusted.
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Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing.
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An architect's flawless ink-wash rendering of a fluted pilaster surmounted by a capital of the Composite order is, necessarily, an abstraction.
The Forever City
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In the gloam, her teeth shone as green as grass, and her ancient monkey head was surmounted by a souffle of a cap.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The Koreans argue that those obstacles are easily surmounted.
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The viewing platform resembles a raised circular sheepfold and is surmounted by a weathervane depicting a front-load tractor.
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A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
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Tiered on the surrounding hills rose terracotta-roofed buildings surmounted by the beige crenellations of a castle.
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Hanan surmounted the obstacles she recounted in her narrative by travelling first to Egypt, arranging there for her ultimate destination.
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A large string of mules, however, which met us from Toulon, loaded with barilla for the great glass works at Beausset, showed us that the one or the other was practicable, and on advancing a little farther, we distinguished the chasm through which the road to Toulon is conducted, surmounted by the black ruins of an old castle to the left.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
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She was a very pretty little person, evidently nearer fifty than forty, but with rosy cheeks, sparkling black eyes, and shining black hair, surmounted by a wonderful beflowered and beplumed bonnet.
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There are still a few technical problems/obstacles/hurdles to be surmounted before the product can be put on sale to the public.
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(haniwa), sometimes surmounted with figures or heads of persons or animals.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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Pillars of marble and alabaster support the base, and the tabernacle, also of alabaster, is surmounted by four beautifully carved angels in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
More Encouraging News from the Franciscans of the Immaculate: Their House in Lanherne, England
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It explains succinctly why it is going to take more than a blue version of the province's name surmounted by three deely boppers to undo the negative branding the Premier has already given the province.
Archive 2006-10-01
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We had to deal with a couple of fallen trees, one footbridge that was going to need repeair soon, one unbridged stream, and several significant mud holes, but all these obsticles were handily surmounted and Alexander thoroughly enjoyed the process.
Good News
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Each of the four straight arches is flanked on either side by an engaged Doric column and surmounted by an entablature.
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The pistil was unaffected in some cases, while in some others it was entirely wanting, the gynophore being surmounted by a cup-like involucre, divided into three acutely pointed lobes, each with a midrib; these encircled a series of stalked involucels, as before, and among which were scattered
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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It was surmounted by a small clock and like the shelter at the Crystal Palace, was in direct telephone communication.
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But those who explain the appeal of horror in psychoanalytic terms such as the return of repressed, the reconfirmation of previously surmounted beliefs, or sadistic tendencies do not deny this.
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They surmounted Mount Mckinley.
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It is in Ile Bourbon, on the verge of a precipice, on the summit of the cliff from which the transparent cascade, surmounted by a gorgeous rainbow, plunges into the lonely ravine of Bernica.
Indiana
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It was surmounted by a small clock and like the shelter at the Crystal Palace, was in direct telephone communication.
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A high cap surrounded by three crowns and bearing a globe surmounted by a cross.
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The sella turcica is bounded posteriorly by a quadrilateral plate of bone, the dorsum sellæ, the upper angles of which are surmounted by the posterior clinoid processes: these afford attachment to the tentorium cerebelli, and below each is a notch for the abducent nerve.
II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
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The tower is surmounted with a spire.
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Having surmounted the hurdle of the committee stage the bill will proceed to become law in the normal way.
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The cap badge worn at the turn-of-the-century was a white metal normal light infantry stringed bugle-horn surmounted by a ducal coronet.
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It was surmounted by a small clock and like the shelter at the Crystal Palace, was in direct telephone communication.
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There was only Helen on the front seat of the car; but in the tonneau was a bundled-up figure surmounted by what looked to be a scarlet cap which Ruth knew instantly must be Tom's.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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Below the painted shield, the later scribe has penned the blazon "Sapphire a bend Topaz surmounted of a fillet Ruby.
Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial
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It is a statuette, apparently of gold, or, more probably, of bronze-gilt — a figure of Mercury, obviously, its head being surmounted with the petasus or winged hat, the usual accessory of that deity.
A Changed Man
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The tower was surmounted by an enormous statue, utterly out of scale with the building.
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Two spacious aisles run up each side of the nave, separated by clustered columns supporting pointed arches, the front row being surmounted by a narrow mullioned triforium and a lofty clerestory, both lighted by beautifully-painted glass windows.
The South of France—East Half
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The carriage passes ivied walls surmounted by stone urns, and enters a courtyard through an elegant gatehouse.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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First, in the north, three convergent valleys are surmounted by crests oriented north-south comprising schistose and sandstone.
Pyrenees-Mont Perdu, France and Spain
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In front of the duomo is the baptistery, a round structure, with a cupola surmounted by a statue of St. John the Baptist; it was erected in 1152.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The first, made in 1976, is a vertical cardboard tube surmounted by another with a smaller bore.
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The dance platform is surmounted by an open dome in white-painted steel with a gently irregular structure, powerful as a definer of space without providing any weather protection whatsoever.
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He erected so many magnificent gates and arches, surmounted by representations of chariots drawn by four horses, and other triumphal ornaments, in different quarters of the city, that a wag inscribed on one of the arches the Greek word Axkei, "It is enough.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
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The walls sloped slightly inwards and were surmounted by an acroter with metal spikes, capable of stopping whosoever might attempt to climb over.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
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Under the rotunda was a low, broad marble counter, surmounted by a gleaming mirror and a noble array of bottles, flasks, decanters, goblets and glasses of every size.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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The tall young Queen was in crimson satin with cunningly-wrought silver embroideries, trimmed with tufted silver fringe, her stomacher stiff with silver bullion studded with gold rosettes and Roman pearls, her bodice cut low to display her splendid neck, decked by a carcanet of pearls and rubies, and surmounted by a fan-like cuff of guipure, high behind and sloping towards the bust.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
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Peering down at us was a pair of faces, one surmounted by a solar topee, the other by a large hat and veil.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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columns surmounted by statues
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The coffin was received beneath what was called a votive monument, -- a column one hundred feet in height, with an immense gilded globe upon the top, surmounted by a gilded eagle twenty feet high.
France in the Nineteenth Century
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Because of this not all the earth had been put back into the grave at the time of the burial, so it seems likely that a small burial mound or barrow surmounted the grave.
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She surmounted the role's many difficulties with ease and grace and imbued the Czech language with particular bite.
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The face of the mountain is scaled either by rocky steps or by terraces cut in the escarped flanks, with quick returns, in the way such elevations are usually surmounted.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet; but the gray lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights, together with incised letterings and shoe-patterns cut by idlers thereon.
The Woodlanders
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It was shaped like a little house surmounted by a cross and encircled, under the pediment, by the dial-like figure of the tetragram.
Là-bas
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On the surrounding walls are photocopied renderings of ornate twisted columns that evoke Bernini's monumental baldachin in St. Peter's - which is surmounted by a golden orb.
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The good King was seated on horseback about half way up the mount, a morion on his head, surmounted by a crown, which left his manly features exposed to public view, as, with cool and considerate eye, he perused each rank as it passed him, and returned the salutation of the leaders.
The Talisman
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At the town center were two low church spires of oxidized copper surmounted by twin crosses.
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Unfortunately, the removal of this section of the picture was accompanied by the destruction of a frescoed lunette, depicting God the Father with Seraphim, which had originally surmounted the main field.
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It was surmounted by a canopy, which, as well as the cushions, side-curtains, and the very footcloth, was composed of crimson velvet, embroidered with seed-pearl.
Kenilworth
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He carried a light cane, surmounted by the head and shoulders of a depraved-looking female in oxidized silver as a handle.
My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny
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_Pontefract Cakes_, impressed with the arms -- three lions passant gardant, surmounted with a helmet, full-forward, open faced, and garde-visure.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
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I decided the song would be my anthem, and to consecrate the decision, I drew in a variety of Sharpie colors on a T-shirt two crossed Vox guitars surmounted with a popeyed skull.
Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
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I figured I was entering the top of the brick portion of the tower, the area with the shingled roof that was surmounted by the clock.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Like the great house, its windows were surmounted by alternating triangular and rounded pediments.
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The work comprises a limestone bust lodged under a classicized pediment surmounted by the poet's coat of arms and two putti.
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It becomes the elementary sentence which the Chinese modern individual idea origins, also is the stage which cannot be surmounted on the occurrence of the Chinese modern individual idea.
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This full achievement illustrates the Azure, Gules, and Ermine mantling issuing from the twisted wreath on the helmet, silver with gold bars, signifying the earl to be a peer, and surmounted by a wyvern crest.
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The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side.
Ely Cathedral
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But the respective level of these essential members were so different in the old and new works that the only parts of them that could be retained were the windows of the old clerestory, which falls just above the new triforium tablet, and accordingly these old windows may still be seen in the triforia of the transepts, surmounted by the new pointed clerestory windows.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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Divided by sub-arcuation into three lights, surmounted by circles of quatrefoil tracery in the spandrels of the arches, and supported by composite shafts, with moulded bases and foliated capitals, this elegant window had been allowed to drop into a ruin.
Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
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The goodmen with their heavy top-boots or jack-boots, their milled or frieze stockings, their warm periwigs surmounted by fur caps or beaver hats or hoods; and with their many-caped great-coats or full round cloaks were dressed with a sufficient degree of comfort, though they did not possess the warm woollen and silken underclothing which now make a man's winter attire so comfortable.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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The mullet (star) represents the Lone Star of Texas and is surmounted by a sunburst symbolizing the Philippine Unit Commendation in World War II.
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The central 12-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.
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He's the only one to have surmounted every obstacle.
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The back is conceived as a cartouche surmounted by arms, a device which features prominently in contemporary Roman design books by Domenico de Rossi, Giovanni Giardini and others.
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The tower was surmounted by an enormous statue, utterly out of scale with the building.
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At the top of this, surmounted by a gilt eagle, was a marvelous picture of a man with a blue coat and yellow smallclothes handing into a boat a lady who wore a skirt of purple and an overdress of scarlet, very much betrimmed, holding a green parasol over her head with one hand and placing a slippered foot on the edge of the boat.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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The central 12-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.
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The building consists of an outer wall of hewn stone, loopholed for musketry, and surmounted by “Shararif,”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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They include a white or orchre-painted cone surmounted by a tapering spire and standing on a square pedestal.
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The whole composition is surmounted by the crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
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cella" containing the object of veneration, the lingam, surmounted by a high-pitched conical stone roof.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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At Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, the pillar is surmounted by a unicorn, sejant and collared, supporting a shield whereon is the cross of St Andrew, and below the unicorn are the dials.
The Book of Sun-Dials
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It remains for long enclosed within the calyptra formed by the further development of the archegonial wall and surmounted by the neck of the archegonium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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The coffin, surmounted by her crown, will be placed in the same spot as her royal predecessors’.
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The structure itself is a pure white nonagonal building, of original and unique design, rising from a flight of white stairs encircling its base; and surmounted by a majestic and beautifully proportioned dome, bearing nine tapering symmetrically placed ribs of decorative as well as structural significance, which soar to its apex and finally merge into a common unit pointing skyward.
God Passes By
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The substructure is a square 114 yards in diameter and upon this building was probably a smaller, surmounted by a statue of Hadrian.
Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico.
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A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
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Three television sets surmounted a polished wood counter, with innumerable flasks and glasses dangling by their stems in racks above the rows of bottled liquors and beverages.
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The Chinese bedroom, refurnished by 1754, contained a magnificent suite of Chinese inspired furniture, dominated by a splendid japanned canopied bed surmounted at each corner by a carved gilded dragon.
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The women, their heads surmounted by broad, solid-brass chaplets and their breasts covered with heavy metal necklaces, carry sticks in their right hands like drum majorettes.
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Between the articular facets, but nearer the posterior than the anterior aspect of the bone, is the intercondyloid eminence (spine of tibia), surmounted on either side by a prominent tubercle, on to the sides of which the articular facets are prolonged; in front of and behind the intercondyloid eminence are rough depressions for the attachment of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments and the menisci.
II. Osteology. 6c. 5. The Tibia
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He was portrayed standing under a tabernacled canopy consisting of three arches slightly pointed, surmounted by crocketed pediments.
