The top of her head barely cleared his shoulders.

As the top of the table cleared a point two feet below the floor, the sides of a trap came bobbing up with spring-like action.

The log was between himself and the boat, yet the top of it cleared the water by no more than six inches.

He'd forgotten how petite she was; the top of her head barely cleared the center of his chest.

The top of her thigh just cleared the duvet.

Pete Crenshaw, tall and muscular, now worked the See-All up slowly, until the top of it cleared the highest piece of junk outside.

It stood looming in the bay, so tall that the top of the helmet barely cleared the bay's overhead.

The top of the desk cleared to transparency and they looked through at a non-scale map of the Sir-ian system.

The top of a ladder cleared the palisade.

At this moment Damon was at the mizzen top, unteth-ered, clearing the block and weeping with silent terror.