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Definition of Surmounting
1. surmount [v] - See also: surmount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmounting
Literary usage of Surmounting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"His meeting-house, rebuilt 1780, was fitted with a sloping floor, to improve the
auditorium ; Field excited some comment by surmounting the front of the ..."
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1876)
"... a man may happen to that may possible; but, from the causes that have been
mentioned, or surmounting * •_ . ... prejudices be disposed not to relish it. ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The signal box is placed so high on the LAMP POST surmounting A post that the
ordinary small boy can- FIRE SIGNAL BOX. not reach it to turn the handle. ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The signal box is placed so high on the LAMP POST surmounting A post that the
ordinary small boy can- "IKE SIGNAL BOX. not reach it to turn the handle. ..."
5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"... of the de- ceas'd as shall satisfy the surmounting debts aforesaid: Re- solved
by this Assembly, that the memorialist, with the assistance of Capt. ..."
6. The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc (1902)
"find a low point suitable for surmounting it, such summit roads are rare, but
when one does get them they are the finest travel in the world, ..."
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