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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.

Yesteryear's Courage Is Needed Now 2011

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.

Yesteryear's Courage Is Needed Now 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.

Into the Rising Sun 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.

Dream tales and prose poems 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.

The Expedition to Botany Bay 2003

Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler Heav'n, ...

NATURE 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.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

On the first day of June they were sighted from the cloud-topped mountain of Chepody, or "_Chapeau Dieu_."

The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage 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.

Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess 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.

The American Union Speaker 1852