Bravo to Bret Stephens on taking on old Seymour, the woefully misguided journalist who apparently mixes his assertions with air so hot that it's a wonder he doesn't float up into the cloud-topped mist like a balloon " Iran, Syria—and Seymour Hersh ," Global View, June 7. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After making a grueling march through cloud-topped mountains, the “Marsmen” outflanked the Japanese and took up positions along high ground over the Burma Road. ❋ Patrick K. O’Donnell (2002)
He told of the distant lands he had seen, of cloud-topped mountains and deserts, rivers like seas; he told of immense buildings and temples, of trees a thousand years old, of birds and flowers of the colours of the rainbow: he named the cities and the peoples he had visited ... their very names seemed like a fairy tale. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He has heard wonders of its celebrated Peak, but he may remain for weeks together at the town of Santa Cruz without having a glimpse of it, and when its cloud-topped head emerges, the chance is, that he feels disappointed, for, from the point of view in which he sees it, the neighbouring mountains lessen its effect very considerably. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler Heav'n, ... ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)
Skillfully she steered her own way among the chimneys till she was lifted above them, all the while tossing the blue air to either side of her prow exactly as if it were water, so that it rose up in cloud-topped waves, and curled, and broke along her rose-trimmed sides in crystal, from where it fell to lay behind her in a long, tumbled, frothy path. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
On the first day of June they were sighted from the cloud-topped mountain of Chepody, or "_Chapeau Dieu_." ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
"Methinks the jaded Greek felt not otherwise when, leaving behind him the blood-stained plains of Troy, he espied the cloud-topped mountains of Hellas," said the poet, who joined us as we stood. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
He did love New Hampshire -- that old granite world -- the crystal hills, gray and cloud-topped; the river, whose murmur lulled his cradle; the old hearthstone; the grave of father and mother. ❋ Unknown (1852)
It is seldom the rising sun has disclosed to my sight so splendid a view as then presented itself; but in a few minutes, when the sun's disk appeared, the beautiful scene vanished, leaving only inferior cloud-topped mountains visible, together with the rich and undulating foreground. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
When we are told that "Cadwallo hushed the stormy main," and that "Modred made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head," attention recoils from the repetition of a tale that, even when it was first heard, was heard with scorn. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
Rising like a cloud-topped fortress from the rolling landscape of eastern ❋ Unknown (2009)
