1910 examples of cresting in sentences

How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Skimming about on the breezy sea, Cresting the billows like silvery foam, Then wheeling away to its cliff-built home!

Yet at that the sharp-nosed craft was making the best of it, leaving a long wake astern, the waves cresting within a few feet of her rail as she swept gloriously forward.

During the time that Dr. Johnson was thus going on, the old minister was standing with his back to the fire, cresting up erect, pulling down the front of his periwig, and talking what a great man Leibnitz was.

I have seen, cresting the highest ridges of Montserrat, ten feet at least of fat earth, falling clod by clod right and left upon the gardens below.

cresta, f., crest, cresting, peak. criado, m., servant.

Like the wanderer of the desert, When, across the dreary sand, Breathes the perfume from the thickets Bordering on the promised land; When afar he sees the palm-trees Cresting o'er the lonely well, When he hears the pleasant tinkle Of the distant camel's bell: So a fresh and glad emotion Rose within my swelling breast, And I hurried swiftly onwards To the haven of my rest.

A faint wind had power to billow this mist-lake, and drive cresting surges up against the eastern hill-side, over which they sometimes broke, and, involving it totally, rolled clear and free toward Katahdin, where he stood hiding the glows of sunrise.

All the time he had been talking to Philip Lambert he had been seeing Carlotta only in relation to Crest House and the Beacon Street mansion.

The Lambert girlsthe pretty twins and the younger, slim slip of a lassie, Elinorwere charming, fresh, natural, unspoiled, very different from and far more to his taste than most of the young women who came to Crest Househot-house products, over-sophisticated, cynical, too familiar with rouge and cigarettes and the game of love and lure, huntresses more or less, the whole pack of them.

"You will come back to Crest House tomorrow with me?" Phil hesitated, considered, shook his head.

Hanged if he wouldn't call the boy this minute and tell him he just had to change his mind and go to Crest House that very morning without a moment's delay.

It was safer to stay away from Crest House entirely.

CHAPTER XVII INVISIBLE DANGER Alcatraz, cresting the hill, warned the mares with a snort.

The range of cresting towers has a double interest, whilst we think of gorgeous dames and barons bold, of Lely and Vandyke's beauties, and gay, and gallant, and accomplished cavaliers like Surrey.

From each little town smoke was rising in separate columns, which met at the top in a great pall of smoke, as a heavy black cloud cresting above the light on the horizon line.

The trees were wawasa palms, some with the fronds cresting very tall trunks, some with the frondsseemingly longerrising almost from the ground.

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Perchance Leviathan of the deep sea Would lease a lost mermaiden's grot to me, There of your beauty we would joyance make A music wistful for the sea-nymph's sake: Haply Elijah, o'er his spokes of fire, Cresting steep Leo, or the heavenly Lyre, Spied, tranced in azure of inanest space, Some eyrie hostel, meet for human grace, Where two might happy bejust you

Out of this level tract rise Mounts William and Cameron; the latter, 1,730 feet high, is the highest of a group of peaks, cresting a ridge, whilst the former is a solitary pyramidal hill, 730 feet high, used as a guide for craft in working through the strait.

The elaborate cresting is rich but meretricious.

A crown of elaborate tabernacle worka perfect medley of battlements and pinnaclesforms the cresting.

Beforebehindaroundarise peaks of purple Apennines, cresting upward into the blue skyan earthen sea dashed into sudden breakers, then struck motionless.

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