Sentence examples for surmounted with a from inspiring English sources

The backs of chairs were still panelled and decorated with carving and inlay or surmounted with a wide and richly carved cresting.

They passed the cardinal's mortal remains in a coffin draped in a white pall — symbol of the joy of resurrection — and surmounted with a gold crucifix.

Its holder is appointed by royal letters patent, and his title is derived from his staff of office, an ebony stick surmounted with a gold lion.

This must be surmounted with a serious dose of pride and an awareness that, as Condou said, "role models really make a difference".

The exhibition will begin with a recreation of an Indian royal procession with a life-sized model elephant adorned with animal jewellery, textiles and trappings, and surmounted with a silver howdah.

I stood in front of the Dutch seventeenth-century nautilus cup — a pearly shell the size of a softball, surmounted with a golden Neptune riding a whale, out of whose mouth Jonah emerges (must not have been against the rules to mix mythologies).

Some examples contain drawers at the base; others have three sides of the upper shelf surmounted with an ornamental board.

This is one hurdle you can easily surmount with a little studying.

Conventionally, this problem is surmounted with placement of a plastic tracheostomy tube, which is uncomfortable for the patient, potentially traumatic, and can interfere with vocalization via a tracheal esophageal puncture.

Mr. Montagnon, of OverBlog, said the move to scuttle a takeover of DailyMotion showed that the administration did not "get" the Internet, where national borders can be surmounted with the click of a mouse.

According to The Times account, written when the cornerstone was laid, the building was to be surmounted with three pedestals, the center one with a full-size statue of a fireman, "the same one who has stood sentry for so many years in front of the old Hall," which had been on the same site.