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Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surmounted by a mammoth glass dome 460 feet high, constructed on purpose to accommodate the giant Pennsylvania pumpkin we're having raised specially for the Exposition.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
Surmounted by a band of laurel leaves is the inscription, written by Professor Keble; under which the poet's head is sculptured in relief.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
Surmounted by towers, as No. 222, which is a “Castle triple towered.”
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
"Surmounted only for a moment! for even in your letter this morning you confess the regret with which it fills you."
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny
