Rock -- Annoyance; (to surmount) difficulties overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
And what means did she possess to surmount these difficulties?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Ipopaya was an obstacle which I could not in any way surmount. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
What are the obstacles, and what will it take to surmount them?. From Wordnik.com. ['We Need to Change the Social Norms'] Reference
This is one challenge our hospitals might not be able to surmount. From Wordnik.com. [‘Potentially Devastating’] Reference
They surmount -- well, not very big obstacles, come to think of it. From Wordnik.com. [In Love In London Town] Reference
It seemed that the freshmen could not surmount the fatal two points. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
There was every reason to hope that such a one as she was would surmount it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
I felt the strongest urge to tackle them, to surmount them as soon as possible. From Wordnik.com. [We Will Elevate (Part Two)] Reference
"When an entire society is built around it, it becomes very difficult to surmount.". From Wordnik.com. [Bias Begins At Home] Reference
Kroomen, whose canoes sever and surmount the billows in spite of their terrific power. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
There are some beings gifted with energy, who can surmount all the difficulties of life. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The dramatic problem Jordan can't quite surmount is that there isn't a whole lot at stake. From Wordnik.com. [A Feast Of Rats, Blood And Wild Rice] Reference
That colony had had many difficulties to surmount before it could be considered established. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
It's the greatest challenge, and subsequently, the greatest reward, to surmount our own fears. From Wordnik.com. [Nikki Stone: Even Country Leaders Have to Learn to Take a Risk: Prince Albert's Most Moving Experience] Reference
Ivy runs thickly over their deep arched recesses, and over the stags 'heads which surmount them. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
This shows that through energy and perseverance you will surmount obstacles and carry all before you. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
Each struggled to extricate itself from the rest, to surmount its neighbors, to wriggle toward the apex. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
A little later on, when playing on his school nine, he had obstacles of a different character to surmount. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
So he took them high up the valley, to a ridge which the bears had to surmount before descending to the bay. From Wordnik.com. [Polar Bear] Reference
His natural resilience had already helped him to surmount the terror just past, and he was almost himself again. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
There was a bank of clay, some few feet high, and he could not round it at either end or surmount it in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Pennsylvanians, having fewer obstacles to surmount than their southern neighbours, prospered in a more rapid manner. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The borderings are of amber-colored satin, and heavy cornices, over which eagles in gilt are perched, surmount the whole. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
But, he added, "we have so many difficulties to surmount anyhow that one more possibly wouldn't swell the total very much.". From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
Hope now filled her breast and gave her courage to surmount all difficulties, which might befall her in effecting her escape. From Wordnik.com. [Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer] Reference
All these figures are placed under the light architectural designs above described, which seem intended to surmount a terrace. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The greater the difficulties were with which the settlers had to struggle, the more encouragement was requisite to surmount them. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
And albeit that herein he hath vanquished me in ciuilitie and courtesie, yet I will not faile if I can to surmount him in amitie. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Ideally, jurors are forced to confront their biases and the limits of their experiences and surmount them in the pursuit of justice. From Wordnik.com. [Will Race Taint The Jury Pool?] Reference
We need to talk to each other, to learn from each other, to focus on how we surmount the significant challenges we face as a nation. From Wordnik.com. [Angela Glover Blackwell: Are We Seeing the Same America?] Reference
Above all, can he surmount the "character" questions that, fairly or not, make his toughest race the one he must run against himself?. From Wordnik.com. [Can He Beat Bush?] Reference
The harassment on this new side gave the first band of the enemy the chance to surmount our front wall, and they were not slow to take it. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Although born in Boston and living in Philadelphia, he yet managed to surmount both obstacles, and to achieve considerable note in his day. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
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