out-topping

You know your Homer: ‘Far to excel, out-topping all the rest!’

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

You know your Homer: ‘Far to excel, out-topping all the rest!’

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

The silk-cotton trees, which rear their enormous trunks to a stupendous height, far out-topping all the other trees of the forest, are regarded with reverence throughout West Africa, from the Senegal to the Niger, and are believed to be the abode of a god or spirit.

Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 1. Tree-spirits 1922

The silk-cotton trees, which rear their enormous trunks to a stupendous height, far out-topping all the other trees of the forest, are regarded with reverence throughout West Africa, from the Senegal to the Niger, and are believed to be the abode of a god or spirit.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

But the responsive spirit, reaching ever outward into new forms of feeling, can thrill at sight of those Titanic structures out-topping the Palisades themselves, thrusting their squareness adventurously into the smoke-grayed air, and telling the triumph of man's mind over the forces of nature in this fulfillment of the needs of irrepressible activity, this expression of tremendous actuality and life.

The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911

Higher and higher sped those two dark specks, far out-topping the scattered remnant of the flock.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

The silk-cotton trees, which rear their enormous trunks to a stupendous height, far out-topping all the other trees of the forest, are regarded with reverence throughout West Africa, from the Senegal to the Niger, and are believed to be the abode of a god or spirit.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

But as the British generals saw their officers go to jail, and found that their impudence and assumption were met by keen reproofs, they gradually comprehended that Washington was not a man to be trifled with, and that in him was a pride and dignity out-topping theirs and far stronger, because grounded on responsibility borne and work done, and on the deep sense of a great and righteous cause.

George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889

This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others -- some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform and sad.

Treasure Island 1883

I ... will plant it upon an high mountain -- Zion; destined to be the moral center and eminence of grace and glory shining forth to the world, out-topping all mundane elevation.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871