But his brief glance at the top-most sheet told him all he wanted to know.

The wood was still, save that in the top-most branches the wind moaned.

The top-most bud waits only through the twelve hours of a single day to open.

The nursery was on the top-most floor of the great stone house—this for sunshine and air.

The citizens were seated next after the equestrians, and in the top-most rows, on benches, were gathered the Roman rabble.

And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song.

Seated among the top-most limbs, he adjusted his glass and looked away to the northeast.

The birds were filling the top-most branches, a gathering of the clans, evidently, for the day's start.

But Washer, having reached the top-most branch of the tree, bit off a twig and threw it down at them.

In a thick tuft, where the leaves disappear, I thrust In my hand, and the bite of the thorns betrays the top-most stem.