Lefty craned his neck from the door, studying the roadbed, but at that moment the locomotive topped the little rise and the whole train lurched forward.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!

Gradually the weakness passed; they topped the ridge and the sun wanned her.

But as they topped the hill crest came the shrill of a whistle from the opposite ridge, and there was half a battalion of the Rutlands back-casting for the enemy that had broken through their posts.

Scarcely had a minute elapsed before it came sweeping into the radius of lightat first a dim, spectral shadow, scarcely to be recognized; then, almost as suddenly, revealed in all its detailsa boat of size, flying toward us under a lug sail, standing out hard as a board, keeling well over, and topping the sea swells like a bird on wing.

It was nothing of a leap; the boar took it with ease, and we could just see him top the bank not twenty spear lengths ahead.

And now a ray of sunlight topped the world.

I was floating down the Missouri River in a mackinaw boat, the sun just topping the high bad land bluffs to the east, when a splendid ram stepped out, upon a point far above the water, and stood there outlined against the sky.

But now Father La Chaise and Bossuet were ever reminding him that he had topped the summit of his life, and was already upon that downward path which leads to the grave.

I once brought a man celebrated for his genius here, and, after gazing for a minute or two at the high, green tuft that tops the tree, he exclaimed, 'that mass of green waved there in the fierce light when Columbus first ventured into the unknown sea.'

"How late it is since such as this Had topped the height of breathing bliss!

They topped the cotton too.

This topped the figure of prisoners which the Germans claimed to have taken in a single month on the Russian front, although their total undoubtedly was composed by at least half of mere stragglers from the mutinous and disorganized Russian units.

Some said he had come back after his bag and hammock, and the best way was to let him have them, and then he would top his boom and clear out.

He came on until he topped the boulder, standing fully revealed upon its flattish top, the butt of his rifle resting on his boot.

There are times, despite my blundering behavior, When fortune seems to follow at my heels; Now and then I play supremely in her favor, And she lets me pull the rankest sort of steals; She'll give to me the friendliest assistance, I'll jump a ditch at times when I should not, I'll top the ball and get a lot of distance

Sweetly ferocious, [M] round his native walks, Pride of his sister-wives, the monarch stalks; Spur-clad his nervous feet, and firm his tread; A crest of purple tops the warrior's head.

"Parson" Williams tops the list of them all.

Racey topped his mount, but as the horse started he held him up.

On his face was a strange joy as of the explorer who tops the mountains and sees the beauty of the promised land beneath him.

Later, when all verdure is profusely expanded, these miniature strokes would be lost, and Nature then practises landscape-gardening in large, lights up the copses with great masses of White Alder, makes the roadsides gay with Aster and Golden-Rod, and tops the tall coarse Meadow-Grass with nodding Lilies and tufted Spiraea.

" "That's what you got," he said, leaning across to top her hand with his, "two big baby stares.

My dear Best Girl: If ever a sailor needed a compass, I need the level head that tops your loving heart.

Vetch (vicia) is so called from its quality of conquering (vincire) because this plant, like the vine, has tendrils by means of which it creeps twisting upward on the stalks of lupines or other plants where it clings until it over-tops its host.

He is gaining fast, and tops the last hurdle leading to the straight just as the hoofs of the other two reach the ground.