Example Sentences
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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 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
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
A shimmering air the golden calm was weaving, All filigree'd with dawn, that like a braid Surmounted her pure brow, which still was hidden Half in the shade.
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Verhaeren, Emile
That never a nun's veil Surmounted eyes so full of earthly fire.
From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Hugo, Victor
