For altare, derived from alta res, or alta ara, is that on which {34} the priests burnt incense.
The authority, it may be said, of that writer must be very small who can give such absurd derivations as cemeterium from cime, altare from alta res, allegory from allon and gore.
When a governor of Alta California rose in the morning he did not know whether he was the representative of an emperor, a king, a president, or a dictator.
Alta Perry snatched eagerly at the chance to bring order out of chaos.
The pretty Junior, whose name was Alta Perry, raised her eye-brows in surprise.
You made yourself very forward and, it seemed to some of us, bold, by going up and advising Alta Perry how to do things.
It was McMurtrie, the mining engineer in charge of the Big Bonanza at Alta Vista.
When I was making the coffee over Jim Bryant's stove here at Alta Vista, it struck me all at once that I'd forgotten the cups.
In the mean time, Bartrow had an inspiration which was importunate enough to send him afoot to Alta Vista in the wake of the swinging passenger train.
It came up from Alta Vista by the hands of one of the workmen who had been down to the camp blacksmith shop with the day's gathering of dulled tools, and was considerably the worse for handling when it reached its destination.
Constance had spoken to her father about the return to Denver, and Stephen Elliott was racking his brain for some excuse reasonable enough to satisfy Bartrow, when a man came up the trail from the direction of Alta Vista.
Thenceforward, the history of Monterey was the history of Alta California.
Upon his departure he conveys his impressions of Alta California in a few striking sentences: "Those who traverse it [the California coast] .
They had but four hours to do the distance across a very broken and hilly country, but they were at Alta a quarter of an hour before the coach was due.
There is a coach that passes through Alta at twelve o'clock.
But the time was too short; the Quaker City would sail on the 8th of June, and in the mean time the Alta correspondent was far behind with his New York letters.
He made this final decision when he heard that the chief editor of the Alta wanted the place, and he now threw his influence in that quarter.
John McComb, of the Alta California, and was startled by McComb's vigorous endorsement.
He decided to go to San Francisco and see "those Alta thieves face to face.
Your only instructions are that you will continue to write at such times and from such places as you deem proper, and in the same style that heretofore secured you the favor of the readers of the Alta California.
I wrote fifty-two letters for the San Francisco Alta California during the Quaker City excursion, about half of which number have been printed thus far.
The author agreed to make proper acknowledgments to the Alta in his preface, and the matter was settled with friendliness all around.
While waiting for attention in the shipping-office, with the Alta agent, he heard a newspaper man inquire what notables were going.
Astyanax is infected with Stoic passion for suicide (1090): nec gradu segni puer ad alta pergit moenia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
