Mount Whitney, the culminating point of the range near its southern extremity, lifts its helmet-shaped crest to a height of nearly 14,700 feet.

If an ascending phrase encounters no repeated and no dissonant note it is progressive, and the culminating note is the most intense.

A correspondent, in a list of improbable events on an "extraordinary day" at the front, gives as the culminating entry, "It did not rain on the day of the offensive.

to what eye but hers did the magnificent secrets of Nature reveal themselves, so that out of a whole forest her careless straying hand should bring only its culminating glories, its most perfect results, whether of leaf or flower or fruit.

But the culminating instance is the following as reported by a newspaper at Lynchburg, Virginia: "VERY REMARKABLE.

Scientists will always claim that a new discovery, which marks an advance in knowledge in their chosen field, is of paramount importance; while the world at large is more grateful to the man who, by combining the discoveries of others and adding the culminating link, confers a tangible blessing upon humanity.

The capital he employed in expanding these operations to their culminating magnitude, he acquired by farming.

Most great novels embrace considerable segments of many lives; whereas the drama gives us only the culminating pointsor shall we say the intersecting culminations?two or three destinies.

Though the active love of good seems too weak to be reckoned as an asset, he still has a "hatred of evil"; and on this twin foundation, ability to think great thoughts and to hate evil deeds, he builds at last his culminating resolve.

And in Bleak House, the culminating story That marks the zenith of his swift career, All the great qualities that won him glory, As writer and reformer too, appear: Righteous resentment of abuses hoary, Of pomp and cant, self-centred, insincere; And burning sympathy that glows unchecked For those who sit in darkness and neglect.

Sobered by this culminating tragedy, the mob shortly afterwards dispersed.

In sending my kindest regards to Lord Russell, let me congratulate you on the culminating victory before him, and on the faith and constancy with which the country carries him in its great heart.

All the incidents of the deadly struggle which must have preceded the fatal culminating act, were mysteries which my mind refused to penetrate.

If my object is to convince you of a general truth, or to impress you with a feeling, which you are not already prepared to accept, it is obvious that the most effective method is the inductive, which leads your mind upon a culminating wave of evidence or emotion to the very point I aim at.

Then the culminating climax: the giving way of the chimney, a shower of bricksbut the young gymnast, safe and serene, dangling from the eaves.