With these qualifications there will be very little to be wished for; the desire to relieve suffering will inspire a thousand little attentions, and surmount the disgusts which some of the offices attending the sick-room are apt to create.

If it be his duty, sir, to condemn what he thinks dangerous or inconvenient, it seems by no means contrary to his duty, to show the reason of his censure, or to lay before the house those objections which he cannot surmount by his own reflection.

It is better that we leave cruelty and that pity surmount us, and therefore me seemeth better to save the lives of these innocents, than by their death I should have again my health, of the which we be not yet certain.

Then, when Dacian the provost saw that he might not surmount him, he called his enchanter and said to him: I see that these Christian people doubt not our torments.

Then was Dacian so angry that he said to his wife: I shall die for anger if I may not surmount and overcome this man.

It is indeed possible for genius to surmount any obstacles, but how few men have reached fame as philosophers or historians or even poets without leisure and freedom from pecuniary cares!

His good sense and sterling character enabled him to surmount the difficulties of his situation, which was anything but a bed of roses.

Altogether, his career as a diplomatist was not a great success; his comparative failure, however, was caused rather by the difficulties he had to surmount than by want of diplomatic skill.

V. be high &c adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over; orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover &c 223; overtop &c (be superior) 33; stand on tiptoe. become high &c adj.; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow^; rise &c (ascend) 305; send into orbit.

climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.

I was preparing to surmount the barbed-wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.

Accordingly, about the year 1418, a new expedition of discovery was fitted out for the express purpose of attempting to surmount the perils of Cape Bojador.

We have had very cold weather; bad riding weather for my master, but he will surmount it all.

" If Di had proposed to translate the Koran, or build a new Saint Paul's, there would have been many chances of success; for, once moved, her will, like a battering-ram, would knock down the obstacles her wits could not surmount.

It is not doubted that this arrangement will present considerations of sufficient force to surmount all their prejudices in favor of the soil of their nativity, however strong they may be.

The first day's work after Noundra was rough, so much so that the camels could scarcely struggle through the deep sand, or surmount the steep, pathless ridges of slippery rock that barred our progress every two or three miles.

but I shall surmount all other Difficulties; and inspired by so noble a Motive for the Care of my Fortune, as the Belief she is to be concerned in it, I will not despair of receiving her one Day from her Fathers own Hand.

Madam, Permission to love you is all I desire, to conquer all the Difficulties those about you place in my Way, to surmount and acquire all those Qualifications you expect in him who pretends to the Honour of being, Madam, Your most humble Servant, Clytander.

The first cascade to surmount was the worst.

We will help Guinessa to surmount it, and when we gain the summit, she shall be the first to sit in the Druid's Chair.'

All this might perhaps be overcome, if the social prejudice which discourages woman would only reward proportionately those who surmount the discouragement.

How were we to surmount this last and most formidable barrier? I turned in time to see Kennedy and O'Connor hurrying up the steps with a huge tank studded with bolts like a boiler, while two other men carried a second tank.

Now here arose a difficulty which all the ardour of patriotism was not able to surmount.

Soon after that he was carried from the field, not wounded, but in utter exhaustion after exposures which no power of will could surmount.

When the child becomes a man his troubles are larger, but to surmount them he has an increment of spiritual vigour, which should swell with passing years.