Use summit in a sentence
Sentences ending with summit
- Day before yesterday was a fine summer day away up here on the summit. [5]
- After registering, the visitors all bought note-paper with a chromo heading, "Among the Clouds," and a natural wild-flower stuck on the corner, and then rushed to the writing-room in order to indite an epistle "from the summit. [4]
- They passed on, up the summit. [5]
- It is called twelve miles from Roan Station to Roan Summit. [4]
- This unaccustomed sight turned all eyes toward the mountain; and as they looked, a little tongue of rich golden flame was seen waving and quivering in the heart of the midnight, away up on the extreme summit! [5]
- He had struck the summit. [5]
- Once early in the morning, a multitude of white villas not before perceived, revealed themselves on the far hills; then we recognized that all those great hills are snowed thick with them, clear to the summit. [5]
- I should have supposed that the last object upon which Parisians would, in their wildest frenzy, have laid violent hands would have been the column with the figure of Napoleon at its summit. [6]
- Rebel battery on summit. [9]
- You love to stroll round among the graves that crowd each other in the thickly peopled soil of that breezy summit. [6]
Sentences containing summit two or more times
- We were above the troublesome forest, now, and had an uninterrupted view, straight before us, of our summit --the summit of the Riffelberg. [5]
- As soon as the men saw with their own eyes that they knew where they were, and that it was only the summit that was lost and not themselves, they cheered up instantly and said with one accord, let the summit take care of itself. [5]
- We were then on the summit, which is, after all, not a summit at all, but an uneven waste, sloping away from the Cone in the center. [4]
More example sentences with the word summit in them
- From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
- The road which wound up to the summit of the Beacon was narrow and uneven. [6]
- Like the eagle which had disappeared before the pilgrim's eyes in the azure vault of heaven, the radiant light on the pure summit summoned her pure soul to dare the flight. [10]
- Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
- That day, as we sat on the summit, he gave in great detail the story, the general outline of which is well known. [4]
- From the summit we had the first extensive prospect during our journey. [4]
- We made our way very slowly; and it was ten o'clock before we reached what appeared to be the summit, a ridge deeply covered with moss, low balsams, and blueberry-bushes. [4]
- We got under way about the turn of noon, and pulled out for the summit again, with a fresh and vigorous step. [5]
- This breezy height was the summit proper--so I accomplished even more than I had originally purposed to do. [5]
- This pleased him very much, for of course we could have stepped back to the summit and put him to the trouble of bringing us home if we wanted to. [5]
- When I stood upon the summit of the Gorner-Grat, the two prominent silver peaks of Monte Rosa were just touched with the sun, and its great snow-fields were visible to the glacier at its base. [4]
- It was impressed upon King that he must upon no account omit a visit to Rum Hill, from the summit of which is had a noble prospect, including the Adirondack Mountains. [4]
- She had looked up to him as to a mountain peak whose jagged summit touched the sky when her father and others had related his knightly deeds, his victories over the most powerful foes, and his peerless statesmanship. [10]
- The meadow sloped up to a belt of balsams and firs, a steep rocky knob, and climbing that on foot we stood upon the summit of Mitchell at one o'clock. [4]
- The mist boiled up from the valley, whirled over the summit where we stood, and plunged again into the depths. [4]
- Moreover, she froze two of her fingers on the way up, she fell in love with her guide on the summit, and she married him when she got to the bottom again. [5]
- Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
- It seemed to transport the listener to the summit of the cathedral, as the choir now called to the ruler that the earth was full of his renown. [10]
- The fantastic clouds, torn and streaming, hurried up from the south in haste as if to a witch's rendezvous, hiding and disclosing the great summit in their flight. [4]
- I toiled on to the summit without a sound of alarm from above. [11]
- The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
- It is something to have climbed the white summit, the Mont Blanc of fourscore. [6]
- It was found to consist of a hard, smooth, huge object with a rounded summit surmounted by a short upright projection resembling a section of a cabbage stalk divided transversely. [5]
- A road had to be cut, over which a sledge could be hauled, and the hardy mountaineers who undertook the removal were three days in reaching the summit with their burden. [4]
- He had no thought of throwing himself from the summit of any of the broken cliffs, but he clambered over them recklessly, as having no particular care for his life. [6]
- But when I thought I had borne about enough of this kind of talk, I threatened to make Harris tramp back to the summit and make a report on that scenery, and this suggestion spiked his battery. [5]
- This was good; this would be romantic; two hundred and fifty people grouped on the windy summit, with their hair flying and their red blankets flapping, in the solemn presence of the coming sun, would be a striking and memorable spectacle. [5]
- Its summit is thirty-five hundred feet high. [4]
- At the summit they were to rest and wait for the people who were to be led through the wilderness of Sin to Dophkah. [10]
- And finally, when they got out their pipes and went serenely puffing around, the very summit of glory was reached. [5]
- Authorities agree that there is no such tremendous "layout" of snowy Alpine magnitude, grandeur, and sublimity to be seen from any other accessible point as the tourist may see from the summit of the Riffelberg. [5]
- We had, on the way down, fine views of the snowy Altels, the Rinderhorn, the Finster-Aarhorn, a deep valley which enormous precipices guard, but which avalanches nevertheless invade, and, farther on, of the Blumlisalp, with its summit of crystalline whiteness. [4]
- When we reached the summit, the mist came boiling up after us, rising like a thick wall to the sky, and hiding all that great mountain range, the Vallais Alps, from which we had come, and which we hoped to see from this point. [4]
- After we passed the summit, and began the zigzag descent, we were on a sharp lookout for sunny Italy. [4]
- Just off from the summit, amid the rocks, is a complete arbor, or tunnel, of rhododendrons. [4]
- The view from the summit would have been superb but for the fact that the sun could only pierce the mists at long intervals. [5]
- The view from the summit of those steps has ever struck me as grand and imposing Nelson Column included the fountains I could dispense with. [14]
- The mule-road to the summit of the Riffelberg passed right in front of the chalet, a circumstance which we almost immediately noticed, because a procession of tourists was filing along it pretty much all the time. [5]
- W. Close to the summit of Mont Blanc. [5]
- Was this then the summit of her ambition? [4]
- He had reached the summit of greatness--to command men. [11]
- We paused on the summit of a distant hill and took a final look and made a final farewell to the venerable city which had been such a good home to us. [5]
- We remained on the summit for one hour-- One crowded hour of glorious life. [5]
- We stood on the summit at last--it had taken an hour and fifteen minutes to make the trip. [5]
- The Summit House, the Signal Station, the old Tip-top House, which is lashed down with cables, and rises ten feet higher than the highest crag, were all in the clouds. [4]
- Yes, it was the Rigi-Kulm hotel--the one that occupies the extreme summit, and whose remote little sparkle of lights we had often seen glinting high aloft among the stars from our balcony away down yonder in Lucerne. [5]
- In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor. [5]
- In front of the little church was a monument to the memory of the bold guide Jacques Balmat, the first man who ever stood upon the summit of Mont Blanc. [5]
- You would divest the impressive drop of water on the mountain summit, which might go to the Atlantic or to the Pacific, of all moral character by saying that it makes no difference which ocean it falls into. [4]
- From this position the enemy could be driven from their main position on the summit, because they could be swept now by artillery fire from a point as high as their own. [11]
- The Chaldaean priests, the earliest astronomers, would have allowed him to take his observations from the summit of the great temple of Bel, their own observatory, but he refused this offer decidedly, and persisted in his haughty reserve. [10]
- The brown face, the clear, strong brown eyes and the brown hatless head rose up eighteen inches above his own, making a gallant summit to a robust stalk. [11]
- At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
- The bare summit that day was swept by a fierce, cold wind, and lost in an occasional chilling cloud. [4]
- The second legend tells us how a wonderfully beautiful naked woman could be seen sitting on the summit of one of the pyramids (ut in una ex pyramidibus); and how she drove the wanderers in the desert mad through her exceeding loveliness. [10]
- We saw a tall wooden scaffolding on the very peak of the summit, a hundred yards away, and made for it. [5]
- I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round. [6]
- Seen from the summit, the city of St. Louis would look like a picture in the bottom of it. [5]
- On the farther summit, above Anacapri, a precipice of two thousand feet sheer down to the water on the other side, hangs a light cloud. [4]
- Upon nearing the summit he halted her with a gesture. [13]
- We reached the summit at half past 2. [5]
- There are dark stories of his getting advance payers on the summit and then leaving them there to rot. [5]
- Presently we all stood together on the summit! [5]
- Have you never stood on the wooded summit of a high mountain, and felt, amid the solemn silence of nature, the still and soft, but awful breath of Divinity hovering around you? [10]
- We climbed the steep path to its summit, through breezy glades of thorn and oak. [5]
- And, afterward, one star came out over it, and a bright light shone from the hut on the Grand Mulets, a rock in the waste of snow, where a Frenchman was passing the night on his way to the summit. [4]
- See where he stands now --on the summit of his art in two worlds and it was I who put him there --that partly put him there. [5]
- I wanted to stand with a party on the summit of Mont Blanc, merely to be able to say I had done it, and I believed the telescope could set me within seven feet of the uppermost man. [5]
- In a second species of the same genus a terminal scale forms a minute horn on the summit of the flexible appendage; and in a third species (C. Stoddartii, fig. [1]
- I shall not soon forget how I felt when, having reached its summit, we all sat down and looked over the city--towards the sea and Leith, and the Pentland Hills. [14]
- This was a something which caught our eyes as we struck the summit of a small hill--a red glow, a good way off. [5]
- The summit is six thousand feet above the sea, but only forty-five hundred feet above the lake. [5]
- I knew how she feels, and that there is no other satisfied ambition, whether of king, conqueror, or poet, that ever reaches half-way to that serene far summit or yields half so divine a contentment. [5]
- A man can shake it so that the movement shall be shown in a vessel of water nearly seventy feet below the summit, and higher up the vibration is like that of an earthquake. [6]
- I can still see the trees and bushes growing smaller and smaller as I followed them up its huge slant with my eye, till they became a feathery fringe on the distant summit. [5]
- When we reached Salt Lake City on our way home he made a point of calling on Brigham Young, then at the summit of his power. [6]
- But later Hay rose, and you know what summit Whitelaw Reid has reached, and you see me. [5]
- On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. [5]
- Looking neither to right nor left, she climbed the long hillside, and at last reached the summit, where, bundled in a steep corner, was the Rock of Red Pigeons. [11]
- After the melancholy procession had passed around a steep mountain whose summit was crowned with a small Egyptian temple of Hathor and a number of monuments, it approached a bend in the valley which led to the ravine where the mines were located. [10]
- On the wooded plain at the summit of the Kolm, a mountain which belonged mainly to the institute, war was waged during the summer every Saturday evening until far into the night, whenever the weather was fine, which does not happen too often in Thuringia. [10]
- Norway Rat was perched upon the summit engaged in thrusting his tail into the cylindrical projection, drawing it out dripping, permitting the struggling multitude of laborers to suck the end of it, then straightway reinserting it and delivering the fluid to the mob as before. [5]
- But for it, people could never have had summer homes on the summit of Mont Blanc; before its day, property up there had but a nominal value. [5]
- While all the others of us in the garden rest and sit in comfort a moment, upon the summit of the summer, it is as rampant and vicious as ever. [4]
- We were sitting on the porch of the farmhouse, on the summit of the hill, and "Aunt Rachel" was sitting respectfully below our level, on the steps-for she was our Servant, and colored. [5]
- In the center of the stony plot on the summit lie the remains of Mitchell. [4]
- At the summit of the pass Joshua and Miriam had met again, but found time only for a hasty greeting. [10]
- Later again, one of the mountain's sides was clean and clear, and another side densely clothed from base to summit in thick smokelike cloud which feathered off and flew around the shaft's sharp edge like the smoke around the corners of a burning building. [5]
- At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began. [2]
- From the summit of the first low-swelling ridge he looked back. [13]
- The lofty crest of the bell-tower was hidden in the folds of falling snow, and I could no longer see the golden angel upon its summit. [5]
- Portion near summit of one of the secondary wing-feathers, bearing perfect ball-and-socket ocelli. [1]
- A heavy block of granite forms the summit of this pier, and on this block rests the equatorial telescope. [6]
- The soothing sense of freedom and purity raised his soul, and the air that he breathed was so fresh and light, that he sprang up the path to the summit of the peak as if he were borne on wings or carried by invisible hands. [10]
- The real Hall of Eblis stands on yonder summit. [6]
- The summit is occupied by a handsome private residence, and from this ridge the view, which has the merit of "bursting" upon the traveler as he comes over the hill, is captivating in its extent and variety. [4]
- It will be noticed that in skeletonizing a list of the qualities which have carried her to the dizzy summit which she occupies, I have not mentioned the power which was the commanding force employed in achieving that lofty flight. [5]
- I grow to nobler use beneath her eyes-- Eyes that smile on me so serenely, will They smile a welcome though my best hope dies, And greet me at the summit of the hill? [11]
- There was (apparently) no real need for hurry, for the guide-book made the walking-distance from Waeggis to the summit only three hours and a quarter. [5]
- We bore away nearly horizontally for about four hundred feet, then ascended directly toward the summit for about sixty feet, then doubled back to the ridge which descends toward Zermatt. [5]
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