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He capped with a hundred caustic-degraded, once Alemannic stockingcaps, He in buckled shoes, in a linen smock: a hundred times He, coming and going.

The amphitheater was a white inferno capped by a shield seething at maximum output.

She started for the cargo hatch while Bigfoot shut down, jerked the umbilical out of the fuel receptacle, capped it, and closed and secured the latch.

Occasionally a voice blatted out a command the watchers could not understand, and one or more entered one of the buildings that capped the avenue.

Out on the flat sediment of the chasma floor there stood aical Greek temple, six Dorian columns of white marble, capped by a round flat roof.

So here at Christchurch a seal is in existence on which the church is represented with a central tower of two storeys, the lower plain, the upper lighted by two round-headed windows and capped by a low pyramidal spire or roof with a tall cross on the summit.

Crested heads capped in drifts, and cold eye sockets scalloped with crusts of rimed ice, the carvings aligned their uncanny awareness and sampled his stalking presence.

His head was shaven and always capped by an outrageous wide-brimmed hat feathering the gigantic plume of a diatryma bird.

They skirted Puebla, its church spires etched against the background of twin volcanoes, still capped with snow.

She stared blankly at the figure who stood before her, resplendent in a turquoise velvet frock coat shimmering with elaborate silver embroidery, with splendid lace cuffs blooming out from the sleeves, breeches of the snowiest satin over white stockings, and delicate black shoes with diamond buckles, his head capped with a magnificent silvery white wig, his slender hand idly holding a crystal glass half-filled with brandy.

This was capped off with the East Africa Groundnut Scheme, which turned a three-million-acre swath of Tanganyikan outback into a vast state-run peanut farm that collapsed in fiasco.

It moaned in the passes, weatherworn cuts between peaks capped with snow that never melted.

Decorated and sometimes capped with statues of the saints and of all the father abbots, and with many other carvings, the great walls served as a testament to the Abellican Order, a symbol of lasting strength, for some comforting, for others .

Now it was colorless, beautiful in a skeletal way, the bandshell empty, the fountain turned off for the winter, the brownstone city hall capped by white snow.

But where the dolmens I had seen were made of three or four upright stones capped by a large table stone, on the whole no larger than the height of a man, this dolmen was easily twice the height of a man.