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Synonyms: acme; breast; crest; crown; elevation; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; summit meeting; superlative; tip; tiptop; top

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  1.  The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch / Lehmann, R. C., 1856-1929
    the ridge on the gorse-clad summit, the summit of Winter Hill! The news went round in the camp that night ... on the gorse-clad summit, the summit of Winter Hill." Then the women talked, as the women will  details...
  2.  Steep Trails / Muir, John, 1838-1914
    of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta ... . Summer Days at Mount Shasta IV. A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit V. Shasta Rambles and Modoc  details...
  3.  Alice Doanes Appeal / Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    and the even line of its summit, resembled a green rampart along the road. It was less steep than its aspect ... in various directions; but, strange to tell, though the whole slope and summit were of a peculiarly deep  details...
  4.  The Mountains of California / Muir, John, 1838-1914
    , with its own climate, soil, and productions. Making your way through the mazes of the Coast Range to the summit ... . When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central  details...
  5.  Vana Parva, Part 2 / Schwartau, Winn
    by the reports produced by the lashing of the tail, the mountain with its summits tottering, began to crumble ... , on the summit of that mountain, with Sugriva, chief of the monkeys. Then a friendship was contracted  details...
  6.  Wonders of Creation / Anonymous
    itself to the imagination as a mountain sending forth from its summit great clouds of smoke with vast sheets of flame ... . There are sometimes formed lower down the mountain subordinate craters, smaller than that which occupies the summit  details...
  7.  Silence - A Fable / Poe, Edgar Allen
    and thither with a crashing and mighty sound. And from their high summits, one by one, drop everlasting dews ... were DESOLATION. "And I looked upwards, and there stood a man upon the summit of the rock; and I hid  details...
  8.  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 /
    of sandstone on the summit of the mesa, and by which it can be distinguished from a great distance. The ground ... cliff is a spring. There are two prominent knolls about 400 yards apart and the summits  details...
  9.  Views a-foot / Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
    , and connected with the cliffs of the mainland by a narrow arch of masonry. On the summit of the cliffs ... made. Returning, we left the road at Dunluce, and took a path which led along the summit of the cliffs  details...
  10.  The Border Boys Across the Frontier / Goldfrap, John Henry, 1879-1917
    , from Coyote Pete's description, were numerous openings and a zig-zag pathway leading up to the very summit. It was on this summit, which according to the most accurate information obtainable had once been used ...  details...

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