If you come by carriage one way, you skirt it for a long distance; if you come the other, you see it as you pass through the narrow streets every now and then at the end of them, closing the prospect and Overtopping the lesser houses.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"Not he," said the Major, Overtopping the General's quiet, restrained voice with his falsetto.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
North of the town, on the extreme point of the land, stands the famous castle of Kronborg, with its three tall towers, the central one Overtopping the others by forty or fifty feet.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou