The very young are free to to crawl to the topmost ridge of the roof on a walkway rigged up for the purpose.

Only the topmost ridges were in the sun now.

But not far behind Sari Bair, the very topmost ridge and the most important objective for the Australians, there are several companies of Turkish reinforcements who are no more than half an hour's marching distance away.

Earl Sawyer now took the telescope and reported the three figures as standing on the topmost ridge, virtually level with the altar-stone but at a considerable distance from it.

At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain, and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them.

Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone.

When they reached the topmost ridge and could see the houses of Wailuku below, Abner paused to wipe away his sweat and thought: "If it is such hard work for us to climb this little hill, how could Urania have bome her journey?"

When he looked back, the whole northern side of the valley had become an inferno, with the flames racing toward the topmost ridge The fire was still a hundred yards from this ridge when Niall suddenly understood why the chameleon men had started the blaze.

Fire-lizards darted in to seek roosts on the topmost ridges, and though Ramoth followed their progress with her brilliant eyes, she no longer bellowed a warning if the creatures entered the Hatching Ground.

There was a lead-lined stone gutter a foot wide just below the window, and once she was standing in that, she turned and clambered up over the rough tiles until she stood on the topmost ridge of the roof.