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 only for a moment! for even in your letter this morning you confess the regret with which it fills you."

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

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

Surmounted by a band of laurel leaves is the inscription, written by Professor Keble; under which the poet's head is sculptured in relief.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Surmounted by a freighted galleon, with streaming pennant and wind-filled sails, a granite pedestal "remembers" Robert Louis Stevenson in Portsmouth Square, cradle of San Francisco's civic history.

From Fascinating San Francisco by Wood, Andrew Y.