sun-crowned

• “Eye-restful solace came however with the sight of the ever-nearing glorious sun-crowned peaks of the mighty "Rockies," sharply silhouetted against the dazzling blue of the sky.”

  The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

• “Gladys stood still amidst the lights and shadows of the sun-crowned trees, and looked the colonel steadily in the face.”

  Gladys, the Reaper

• “But truth, character, skill, the many gifts and great labor which must unite to lead an artist to the foot of his shadowy, sun-crowned mountain, can then carry him no step farther unless ideal Beauty join him, and he comprehend her nature and follow to her height.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

• “His loving heart, gentle and forgiving spirit, broad humanitarian sympathies, loyalty to truth and justice, and unswerving devotion to the right stand him yonder upon a pinnacle, pure and white, sun-crowned, with his head and heart lifted to God.”

  Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D. with a Short History of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism

• “Up on the dazzling, sun-crowned peak a wreath of smoke was ascending beyond the tops of the highest trees.”

  The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists

• “Even sun-crowned Olympus would be a desolate place to me if I had to live all alone.”

  The Spartan Twins

• “His gaze did not remove from the half-averted head with its sun-crowned, red-gold aureole.”

  The Opened Shutters

• “I must say with undying gratitude to all connected with the Institution, that it is to them I am indebted for the might and the mastery; for while many a daisy was crushed in my path, many a rose bloomed upon a thorny stem, and these kind ones led me at last to the sun-crowned mountain-tops and clear blue skies.”

  The World As I Have Found It

• “Once more, with a final effort, he raised his heavy hand and pointed to the sun-crowned head of the immortal youth while he softly murmured:”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

• “Before Darius led his conquering hosts from realm to realm, or ever Caesar knew life, or Christopher Columbus framed mast and spar to discover America, this sun-crowned monarch had over-topped his fellows, and met the challenge of the blasts of heaven, and drunk of the wines of the dews of an immortal youth, and dieted on the ambrosial ether of gods, and sent his seedling offspring sailing ten thousand airy seas with the wind for master pilot and never a craft but the gypsy parachute of a seed with wings shaken out from the cones purpling to the autumn heat!”

  The Freebooters of the Wilderness

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