"Summit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spectators on the hill proclaimed that the Zouaves, who always led the French attacks, had gained the parapet. Then, from within, a host of figures surged up against the sky, and a curious conflict raged on the very summit of the work. Soon, however, the increasing mass of the French, as they streamed up, enabled them to maintain the footing they had gained, and pouring down into the fort, they drove the Russians from it, the French ...
— Jack Archer • G. A. Henty
... actually flowing down on one side exactly as it flowed up on the other, leaving Simon's Yatt as a sort of wedge inserted in its course; and presents the extraordinary effect of the same river at the same moment running both north and south. The summit of Simon's Yatt is not above fifty feet wide, and the descent on one side is perpendicular, showing the river directly under your feet, and on the other is nearly precipitous, leaving only room, between its base and the river, for a most picturesque assemblage of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... Xodar, Tars Tarkas, and I stood gazing at the magnificent vessel which meant so much to all of us, we saw a second and then a third top the summit of the hills and glide ...
— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... another Indian appeared on the summit and looked for a little while into the valley, but like the others he went away. Henry had felt sure that ...
— The Keepers of the Trail - A Story of the Great Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler
... steep hill of rather rough ice, found his dogs suddenly increasing their speed, but in the right direction. To this he had no objection, though it was very doubtful what was beyond. However, the dogs darted ahead with terrific rapidity, until they reached the summit of the hill. The ice was here very rough and salt, which impeded the advance of the sledge: but off are the dogs, down a very steep descent, furiously tugging at the sledge-halter, till away they fly like lightning. The harness ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 • Various
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