1 From its summit there fluttered a little wisp of pink, showing up hard and bright against the grey rocks behind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 Her eyes now rested on the white summit of a cloud.
3 ; but her only offer of exchange was addressed to Miss Crawford, as they gained the summit of a long hill, and was not more inviting than this: "Here is a fine burst of country."
4 They stood now, on the summit of a little hill, commanding the open fields in every direction for three or four miles.
5 They stopped at the summit of the stairs.
6 As the resting man looked at the barrow he became aware that its summit, hitherto the highest object in the whole prospect round, was surmounted by something higher.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 7 The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 8 On the summit of the latter stood Charley, sufficiently elevated by its height to see into the room.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One 9 From a distance there simply appeared to be a motionless figure standing on the top of the tumulus, just as Eustacia had stood on that lonely summit some two years and a half before.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 10 On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 11 I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson 12 But I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown me the man himself standing upon the summit of the Black Tor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 13 The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and gray shadow on the other.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 14 From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx.
15 I was just upon the point of reaching the summit of bliss, when an old marchioness who had been mistress to the Prince, my husband, invited him to drink chocolate with her.