surmounted

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Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.—SHARPE.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Surmounted by a mammoth glass dome 460 feet high, constructed on purpose to accommodate the giant Pennsylvania pumpkin we're having raised specially for the Exposition.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry

That never a nun's veil Surmounted eyes so full of earthly fire.

From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Hugo, Victor

Surmounted by towers, as No. 222, which is a “Castle triple towered.”

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.