Which preposition to use with cresting
Though I could see the crests of the mountain-amphitheatre, yet it was a great while before their lower portions became visible.
They then dashed up the steep sides while the horse artillery lashed the crest with their fire, and driving the Turks from their trenches had captured the hill by three o'clock.
They sent the paper with the crest on it to Boston.
The gray masses are pouring up to the crest in still greater numbers; a large body of them march down the hill in the rear of the Union line concealed by the woods; they march right up to the ranks where the red-barred flag is flying!
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 only there were a crest above my bell-pull I might even expect Becky Sharp in for tea.
When he was out of sight and hearing, Kazan whined, and the crest along his spine flattened.
When the public mind is thoroughly revolutionized, and ready for the change, when the billow has reached its height and begins to crest into foam, then such a measure may bring matters to a crisis.
He clambered on until he came to the very crest over which Swen Brodie had disappeared.
The enemy, too, had some well-served guns, and they plastered the spurs leading to the crest from the west, but our infantry's audacity never faltered, and after we had got into the first lines on the hill our men proceeded methodically to rout out the machine guns from their nooks and crannies.
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.
My crest for that reason is flesh and blood!
Are you stark mad?" They ran on westward, panting, sheltered by the grassy crest behind which soldiers lay firing over the top of the grasslong lines of them, belly flattened to the slope, dusty blue trousers hitched up showing naked ankles and big feet pendant.
They went up the road, until at the crest by the stile they came into sight of the Experimental Farm.
The Malaki's Sister and the Basolo There is a certain mountain that has a sharp, long crest like a kampilan.
Then he took a number of the smaller but very tough stems, and knotting them together, with the assistance of Tayoga ran a strong rope from the crest down to the fountain, thus greatly easing the descent for water and the return.
Ridge after ridge the mountains stretched on the other side, rising steadily, growing ever more august and mighty and rocky; on their crests across the blue gorges the snow was dazzling white and winter held stubbornly on at altitudes of seven thousand feet.
As Hill's column pushed forward to attack this position, it was met by a determined fire of artillery and small-arms from the crest beyond the stream, where a large force of riflemen, in pits, were posted, with infantry supports.
He saw for a moment the outline of a head black against the starlight, with sharply-pointed upstanding ears and a crest between them.
It contains a "monstrous fine" sculpture of one of the family and bears on the roof their gilded Moor's head crest as a vane.
The garrison held out magnificently all day in a support trench close behind the crest against odds of twenty to one, and repeatedly beat off rushes, although the bodies of dead Turks showed that they got as close as forty yards from the defenders.
In loneliness the bull stalked o'er the plain, And tossed his drooping crest toward the sky, In sadness lay upon the green to die; On the far kine looked weary and bereaved, And turned toward the gods, and wondering grieved.
The only mistake they made was in using the yacht's lovely china, which bore the Strossi crest under the Hela's private flag.
[Sidenote: A.D. 101 (a.u. 854)] Undertaking to ascend the heights themselves, he secured one crest after another amid dangers and approached the capital of the Dacians.
They came up, spangled with green and gold flashes, from astern, shook their fiery crests about the tug, and vanished ahead, but one heard them crash.