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Examples
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They were laying a-top a corrugated tin roof on the ground.
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They were laying a-top a corrugated tin roof on the ground.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Here, we enjoy our first nip of the day, accompanied by oat cakes and the eerie presence of standing stones a-top the horizon.
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Oh Frances – you are so funny – I love your drawing of yourself a-top a ladder, especially the pink camera.
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Here, we enjoy our first nip of the day, accompanied by oat cakes and the eerie presence of standing stones a-top the horizon.
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It is made more agreeable and peculiar by some of the solemn houses that are rooted in the deep streets below, bursting into a fresher existence a-top, and having doors and windows, and even gardens, on these ramparts.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The great difference in appearance between these packets and ours, is, that there is so much of them out of the water: the main-deck being enclosed on all sides, and filled with casks and goods, like any second or third floor in a stack of warehouses; and the promenade or hurricane-deck being a-top of that again.
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And standing in one of those Kilns nearly full, and seeing a free crow shoot across the aperture a-top, and learning how the fire would wax hotter and hotter by slow degrees, and would cool similarly through a space of from forty to sixty hours, did no remembrance of the days when human clay was burnt oppress you?
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The republicans had stuck huge pine-wood torches into the green sods a-top of the trenches, which gave a ghastly glaring light immediately in their own vicinity, though they did not relieve the darkness at a few paces distant.
La Vend�e 2004
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There were large wooden, gates at each, which were usually left open, but each of which was guarded by two white-washed lions — not quite so much at ease as those on the pedestals, for they were fixed a-top of pillars hardly broad enough to support them.
La Vend�e 2004
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