Heights
[heits]
Examples
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- From the shining heights she has scaled and taken, she is never absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Amazing heights of upright grandeur. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was the beginning of the electric-light furor which soon rose to sensational heights. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Thornton, above all people, on whom she had looked down from her imaginary heights till now! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To be convinced of this we need only consider the influence of heights and depths on that faculty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The road to Saltillo leaves the upper or western end of the city under the fire of the guns from these heights. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She would ramble to the most unfrequented places, and scale dangerous heights, that in those unvisited spots she might wrap herself in loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- While it seems a pity to destroy this erroneous idea, suggestive of a heroic climb from the depths to the heights, nothing could be further from the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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