Elevated

Examples

• Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Especially in your elevated station of society, miss, says Mr. Bucket, quite reddening at another narrow escape from my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When the gas holder is full it is buoyed up by the lighter gas, and occupies an elevated position, and as its supply is used up, the gas holder settles down into the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was evident that subsequen tly to the formation of the basalt that portion of the coast containing the white stratum had been elevated. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Looking into the orb of light, he sees nothing, but he is warmed and elevated. Plato. The Republic.
• In her confusion she stumbled against a man who was hurrying down the last steps of the elevated station. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But at first I must confess, my vanity only was elevated by it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the elevated came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Instantly he elevated the planes of his machine, and his aeroplane obeyed his touch, shot upward, and flew over the Antoinette. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Some years later, also, Daft again tried friction gear in his historical experiments on the Manhattan Elevated road, but the results were attended with no greater success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A dog, when elevated with joy, runs naturally into love and kindness, whether of his master or of the sex. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The raw materials for the open-hearth furnaces are received on elevated railroad tracks graded and piled preparatory to sending to the furnaces. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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