1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 79:There was a single birch tree that overtopped the other trees on the island, and was now picked out against the moon-drenched sky.
February 20, Ye's InGaAs devices, for example, work splendidly when switched on, says materials scientist Paul McIntyre of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; but ... try to switch one off and current still leaks through, like water overtopping a levee.
