mountain-summit

These latter reefs have been formed whilst the land has been stationary, or, as appears from the frequent presence of upraised organic remains, whilst it has been slowly rising: atolls and barrier-reefs, on the other hand, have grown up during the directly opposite movement of subsidence, which movement must have been very gradual, and in the case of atolls so vast in amount as to have buried every mountain-summit over wide ocean-spaces.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It was dawning in exquisite, icy rose upon the long mountain-summit opposite.

Twilight in Italy 2003

These latter reefs have been formed whilst the land has been stationary, or, as appears from the frequent presence of upraised organic remains, whilst it has been slowly rising: atolls and barrier-reefs, on the other hand, have grown up during the directly opposite movement of subsidence, which movement must have been very gradual, and in the case of atolls so vast in amount as to have buried every mountain-summit over wide ocean-spaces.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

A snow-storm on a mountain-summit is very different from a snow-storm on the plain, on account of the different degrees of moisture in the atmosphere.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

From the front-windows of the mansion the eye reached a far blue mountain-summit, -- no rounded heap, such as often shuts in a village-landscape, but a sharp peak, clean-angled as Ascutney from the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

Deprived of his bow and his cars, the brave Nakula, taking up a sword, jumped down from his vehicle like a lion from a mountain-summit.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

The path clambered up the rocks which covered the entire area of the mountain-summit.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

He came to a mountain-summit at last: Hindfell, where the trees fell away, leaving a place open to the sky and the winds.

The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926

Resolutely striding from the sleeper, he summons Loge, and commands him in his original form of elemental fire to surround the mountain-summit.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

These latter reefs have been formed whilst the land has been stationary, or, as appears from the frequent presence of upraised organic remains, whilst it has been slowly rising: atolls and barrier-reefs, on the other hand, have grown up during the directly opposite movement of subsidence, which movement must have been very gradual, and in the case of atolls so vast in amount as to have buried every mountain-summit over wide ocean-spaces.

Chapter XX 1909