All 3 Uses of
apex
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- The waggon was laden with household goods and window plants, and on the apex of the whole sat a woman, young and attractive.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- He at once sat astride the very apex, and began with his crook to beat off the fiery fragments which had lodged thereon, shouting to the others to get him a bough and a ladder, and some water.†
Chpt 4-6
- Bathsheba was sitting almost on the apex of the stack, her feet gathered up beneath her, and resting on the top round of the ladder.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(apex) the highest point or most important level of something