Besides, the difficulties which atop us here are peculiarly of a psychological order.
The trumpeters atop the great outer gates were now differently dressed, and there were not two but a dozen lined along the deep palace walls.
There was the tight-clenched old bureau, receding atop like a bad and secret forehead; there was the cumbersome old table with twisted legs, at the bed-side; and there was the box upon it, in which the will had lain.