There was a cresting of politics on Sunday night, and everyone expected it.

The apogee of its bloody cresting may therefore still lie ahead.

Yet he felt this cresting, flooding hope-almost like a great joy.

To cover the cresting, we had to glue linen on the carved pine.

Although still intact in some examples, this original cresting has often deteriorated and been removed.

He felt the cresting of his past as though he rode a surfboard.

The cresting is pierced and punctuated with stylized foliage.

The bridge features decorative cresting and lattice lateral bracing.

The laughs and discomforts emerge from the spiking and cresting of paranoia.

A cresting, mountainous dune of sand turns out, on closer inspection, to be the pages of an opened dictionary, shot up close.

Limestone pilasters separate each bay on the central section, which features a projecting cornice topped with decorative cresting.

The silver mace-heads were mostly plain, with a cresting of leaves or flowers in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The columns support a full classical entablature with an ornamented cornice and floral cresting.

Most of the enormous building is now gone, but what remains of the luxurious design includes a tall mansard tower topped by lacy cresting.

In downtown Portland, where major flooding had been expected, residents escaped the cresting of the Willamette River with little damage.

The visible beams are ovolo moulded and feature brattishing, a form of decorative cresting.

The entire corner tower is angled, with a tall rectangular mansard pavilion on top, and the roof line still has much of its original, lacy cresting.

"We just might have won," said Larry Black, a water-flow specialist for the National Weather Service here, looking over river readings that documented the cresting.

Decorative cresting will be restored to the parapets and the copper globes atop the twin towers will be highlighted in gold leaf.

This cresting is flanked by two corner merlons which are capped by limestone moldings and antefixes.

Predictions for high-water cresting were scaled down slightly, the water was receding upstream and even if more rain comes, as forecast, it will not worsen the flood significantly.

But "Breaking the News" represents the cresting of a recent tendency to accept people who have been in the political world as arbiters of what constitutes good journalism.

The roof cresting is missing, the slate roof and dormers are slathered in old tar and the wire-glass transom over the door is shattered.

The house's design exhibits Victorian influences and includes a gable roof which originally had ornamental cresting, a porch with decorative woodwork, and decorative window sills.

In architecture, brattishing or brandishing is a decorative cresting which is found at the top of a cornice or screen, panel or parapet.

He studies at Crest high school from 1873 to 1875.

For years, the red hand was only used to present the crest.

They also have a crest at the back of their head.

But it seems to me his crest is high enough.

For a moment, they stood at the crest and looked out.

It has a short crest on the top of its head.

The team used this crest for two years until 1927.

There is also a short crest on the back of the head.

The thing made her think suddenly of a family crest come to life.

Yet if help were brought us we might hold the crest until it comes.

The next year, the old school crest was changed to its present form.

He reached the crest again and got to his feet.

After we reached the crest he decided to go on his own.

When they reached the crest, he moved into the lead.

In her mind, she was seeing the crest on the high school building.

And then finally the crest of the hill was above him.

I wanted her to crest more slowly and higher than ever before.

I looked back to the men at the crest of the hill.

The current club crest was first used in the 1988-89 season.

I turned around and looked at the face on the crest of the chair myself.

And on the crest of the hill, I could see them.

That's an old one at the end of the crest there to the right.

She stood up on the crest, looked beyond for cover.

The crest on the stone was one she knew well.

Up the hill, over the crest, and down the other side.

He crested the top and saw the two young men.

I think they've crested and they're on their way down.

At last they crested and were back on safe land.

They crested the hill and started down the other side.

When he crested the hill, however, the woman was gone.

His International rating crested at 2485 around the same time.

He crested the rise and moved out onto level ground.

I crested the top of the cliff and looked down.

They crested the mountain as he spoke and started down.

A wall of water crested ten feet above the dam!

Five minutes later, they saw him cresting the second ridge.

If only Washington had done half as much before this human flood crested.

It crested a rise and found itself at the edge of the Heart.

He led him along the trail as they crested the pass.

He soon crested the hill and was down the other side, out of sight.

I looked west just as the sun was cresting the Divide.

They continued across the bridge and quickly crested the hill.

"The river crested four or five feet from right here.

They crested the rise and were back among the crowds.

They crested the far wall of the valley and saw that this would not be a long race.

He looked across and saw the new enemy cresting the hill.

I crested the top of a hill and stopped for breath.

Then came the period of explosive growth that crested this summer.

This time, public interest is again cresting as the debate begins.

We crested the ridge and headed down the far side.