crests

With nine turns to a hundred steps, it winds round the ledges of the mountain crests.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Sometimes the road dipped into a canyon of poplars, and the sky between their crests was a tiny strip of mottled blue and white.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909

On the slopes and in the bottoms were patches of magnificent forest; on the crests was the jungle, and occasionally an outlook over extended views.

The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

Sometimes the road dipped into a canyon of poplars, and the sky between their crests was a tiny strip of mottled blue and white.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The ripples are up to 2.3 metres high and span 43 metres between crests, which is triple the height and double the wavelength of the largest previously known on Earth.

New Scientist - Earth 2009

Avoid locations such as crests which are exposed to extreme winds.

3. Shape of the roof 1993

His cousin Lord Stanhope, also eccentric beyond bounds, so loved our Revolution that he gave up his title and crests, called himself Citizen Stanhope, and lived thus in Chevening, the governor’s old house.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

His cousin Lord Stanhope, also eccentric beyond bounds, so loved our Revolution that he gave up his title and crests, called himself Citizen Stanhope, and lived thus in Chevening, the governor’s old house.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

His cousin Lord Stanhope, also eccentric beyond bounds, so loved our Revolution that he gave up his title and crests, called himself Citizen Stanhope, and lived thus in Chevening, the governor’s old house.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

"crests" is the crest which does not mean family at all, but is a device supposed to give an idea of the art or taste of the individual.

How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence Mary Owens Crowther