Above all else

Usage examples of topmost.

I told Alake to keep an eye on the floating human, took Devon to deck two, the topmost part of the waterlock.

In the other a stately araucaria, a thriving, straight-grown baby tree, a perfect specimen, which to the last needle of the topmost twig reflects the pride of frequent ablutions.

Intelligibles, have set as it were a footprint there but must still advance within the realm--lasts until they reach the extreme hold of the place, the Term attained when the topmost peak of the Intellectual realm is won.

With the horned moon hooked round the topmost limb, And the owl awatch on the branch below, What is the song of the winds that blow Through your boughs so mysteriously?

Though that front guard post was a good vantage point for seeing the terrain clear to the sea on clear days, one could hear very little there of what went on inside and to the rear of the castle, because that topmost sentinel tower was situated directly above the noisy rushing waters of the Blabbermouth River, which kept up an endless, senseless stream of chatter day and night.

Perhaps in a while--a month or two--a certain shoot in the topmost branch would take the hint and the uneven flow of moisture up through the cambium layer would nudge it away from that upward reach and persuade it to continue the horizontal passage.

So while his nine fellows stood round about the Speech-Hill, the old warrior clomb up to the topmost of it, and blew a blast on the horn.

The lowermost was shapen cuboid, the topmost a smooth cylindrical shaft against the pure Spanish sky.

Your hasty judgments stay, Until the topmost cyme Have crowned the last entablature of Time.

As it gained the topmost step a final report sounded in the saloon, and the figure checked, revolved slowly on a heel, tottered, and plunged headforemost down the steps again.

Instead they showed Aejys hanging in chains on the topmost tier of the altar of hecatomb as Margren shoved a dagger into her stomach.

And at dawn before them as they journeyed rose Athos, the Thracian mountain, which with its topmost peak overshadows Lemnos, even as far as Myrine, though it lies as far off as the space that a well-trimmed merchantship would traverse up to mid-day.

CHAPTER IV ON THE TRAIL With Bud in the advance, urging his pony to topmost speed, Nort and Dick followed.

The tree burned with unconsuming fire in the candlelight, the birds and animals glowed like jewels, the dove seemed to be truly about to alight on the topmost branch, the words on the orphrey gleamed and seemed to stand out from the dark red silk behind them, but it was the morse, which showed the Cross supported by two angels, which pleased, Father Warmand the most.

Borne up on roots, or rather walls, of twisted board, some twelve feet high, between which the whole crew, their ammunitions, and provisions, were housed roomily, rose the enormous trunk full forty feet in girth, towering like some tall lighthouse, smooth for a hundred feet, then crowned with boughs, each of which was a stately tree, whose topmost twigs were full two hundred and fifty feet from the ground.