14 Verbs to Use for the Word apex

But how do we know that in man the spiral of life has not reached its apex, and that now, even now, the vortices of its descent are not beginning?

And, lastly, a large mastiff made his appearance, walking in a slow, measured gait, with a sleek tortoise-shell cat on his back; and she, in turn, was surmounted by a mouse, which formed the apex of this singular pyramid.

In the scramble toward the peak many fall by the wayside; others deceive themselves by imagining they have attained the apex when they are far from it.

Perched on a pyramid of coffins, gradually diminishing in size as the pile approached its apex, Chowles was waving a glass in one hand, and a bottle in the other, when the doctor made his appearance.

" The object of the French triangle, having its apex at Namur, was to break the German army in two.

She lifted the tottering apex just in time to prevent its fall.

The man scratched his head perplexedly and looked a few feet up the hill at the manzanita bush that marked approximately the apex of the "V." He nodded his head and said oracularly: "It's one o' two things, Bill: one o' two things.

He asserts also that the Embryo constantly appears at that point of the ovulum where the ultimate branches of the umbilical vessels perforate the inner membrane; and therefore mistakes the apex for the base of the nucleus.

Hence, however, he has formed an erroneous opinion of the nature and origin, and in some plants of the situation, of the micropyle itself, and hence also he has in all cases mistaken the apex for the base of the nucleus.

They thus moved forward in the shape of a triangle, the apex to the rear.

under circumstances which might split apex and base of several of my most important arteries,which might bring on apoplexy, epilepsy, suffusion of the brain, or hernia,which might cause death,yes, Sir,death of the mother, father, and child.

Having been the first to ascend its apex, the party named it Schoolcraft's Mountain.

The French attacked at Ailly, the apex of the salient as it was on September 11.

Often he ran his eye along the converging sides and on up the hill, trying to divine the apex, the point where the gold-bearing dirt must cease.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  apex