He cast a longing look over the flat-topped summit. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
The president was seated at a flat-topped mahogany desk. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Only a few instances of these flat-topped mounds are found in. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Fruit flat-topped, 2 in. long, red; pulp reddish; seeds black. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
At the end, they reached a meadow surrounding a large flat-topped rock. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Corymbosely arranged in corymbs, i.e., flat-topped flower clusters, 56. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
At the far end of the room the teacher, Miss Scattergood, sat at her flat-topped desk. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Hidden in the trees we came to the buildings -- three or four flat-topped adobe houses. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Those enormous, flat-topped heads held ready to present their steely surfaces as shields!. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
He went to the battered, flat-topped dresser a few feet from the bed and pulled open a drawer. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
It was high and flat-topped, and the stone door was still upon its hinges, standing half open. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
A large, flat-topped, adobe building, apparently deserted, stood off at one side of the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
He laid these out on a flat-topped stone by the stream, seating himself cross-legged beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
When the diamonds failed to burst like glass, they spat them out into their flat-topped kettle-helmets. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The two girls watched the other members of the group, scramble up the steep ledge to the flat-topped hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
Fastigiate: flat-topped and of equal height: also applied to elytra that extend a little beyond the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
A mile to the east of Lauro's walls lay the sea, while to the west there reared a high but flat-topped hill. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In the distance is the flat-topped hill or mesa on which the rectangular ruin previously described is located. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference
Having passed Tanjong Labu at a distance of 3 1/2 or 4 miles, get the flat-topped hill called Bulu Tanna ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
At the bottom of this inlet was some higher land than usual, and among it two flat-topped hills were very conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
At the bottom of the opening was a remarkable flat-topped hill under which the waters of the inlet appeared to flow in. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
At the first flat-topped desk in one corner of the room sat a small, fair woman with a sweet, sunshiny face that quite won. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
The thin, gray-haired man who was stooping over the flat-topped desk, looking at a card file, glanced up at her and smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
The occurrence of a cylindrical flat-topped helm in monumental sculpture is, of itself, sufficiently rare to merit a notice. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
In northwestern New Mexico there is a remarkable flat-topped rock known as the Enchanted Mesa, which rises with precipitous walls to. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
These eminences, which appear like natural, flat-topped hills, were constructed with an almost incredible expenditure of human labor. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
It was only a few hours into the new day that we reached the flat-topped mount from which Tameera had slaughtered the remaining sheq. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
So, when he had persuaded them to throw down their swords, he put off his flat-topped helmet and seated himself with the Grangioia men. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
The level ground below was populated by the flat-topped roofs of a substantial village surrounded by olive groves and cultivated fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Before we entered this narrow part of the valley, it was curious to see below the peaked mountains a flat-topped effusion of basalt, called. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
A year or so ago I witnessed a Sokol display on that flat-topped height called Letna; it is, as it were, an eastward prolongation of the Castle. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
A high-collared man with eyeglasses and an ingratiating smile arose from behind a flat-topped desk facing the door and rubbed his hands as he addressed the two girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
Peeping out from amongst the trees were the flat-topped roofs of the village, at the entrance to which in the most commanding position stood the ruins of an old castle. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
It was too hazy for more than glimpses of the Atlas and their snows: as far as we could see stretched only illimitable drab-coloured plain, broken by the flat-topped hills. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
In the history of art there is no other spot in the world possessed of such interest as the flat-topped rock, already described, which constituted the Athenian Acropolis. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
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