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Definition of Surmounts
1. surmount [v] - See also: surmount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmounts
Literary usage of Surmounts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"As, by force Of a strong wind, that to its wont impels The billows, out upon the
broad-spread sea A climbing wave surmounts a galley's sides, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"1 Let London's burghers mourn her lord And Croydon monks his praise record,' The
eager Edward said; ' Eternal as his own, my hate surmounts the bounds of ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"It surmounts the vulva, and is covered with hair at the time of puberty.
The External Organs of Generation in the female are the mona Veneris, ..."
4. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"Hither in fearful haste the image of ^Eneas flying throws itself into a hiding-place :
and Turnus with no less speed pursues ; surmounts all obstacles, ..."
5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1881)
"... said deceased for which no grant for sale of real estate hath been heretofore
made surmounts the moveable estate of said deceased the sum of £1.4: 10«. ..."
6. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"... WITH THE FIGURE WHICH surmounts THB SOLDIERS* MONUMENT. Another distinguished
sculptor who spent some years of his early manhood in Waterbury, ..."
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