out-topped

And, of late, the single shaft has out-topped the glamorous Wagnerian halls.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

The sheep that bore it across the grassy moors must have out-topped the horse.

Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906

And our ultimate loss out-topped our gain; for essayists and ambassadors are more numerous than poets.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

That tower rises from the bottom of the cup and shoots straight upwards, nor stays till it has out-topped the proudest belfry on the hills about it.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

For the noise of them seemed almost mirthful, as it out-topped the other noises of the night; or if not mirthful, yet instinct with a portentous joviality.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I dare not dwell upon the hours that followed: they fled all too fast; and presently the moon out-topped the eastern range, and my father and Mr. Aspinwall set forth, side by side, on their nocturnal journey.

The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

For the noise of them seemed almost mirthful, as it out-topped the other noises of the night; or if not mirthful, yet instinct with a portentous joviality.

The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Alaric had out-topped him in everything, and it was sweet to

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

Is not this the very point in which my career has most out-topped my lofty hopes?

The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

An immense casuarina tree far out-topped the rest, and its branches were loaded with a vast number of blackish creatures, which we took for crows at a distance, but which proved to be bats when we came nearer.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784