After two days climbing and bivouacking for one night at a great height, we were only about five or six hundred feet or so from the summit, when we were caught up by a messenger bringing us the captain's orders to get back as fast as we could.
A huge cloud of smoke white above, black below, rose from the fort, slowly to a great height above it.
He has fallen from the mizzen rigging this time; not from a great height, luckily.
After the breaking of a higher wave than usual, great masses of water would be dashed up the sides of a cliff to a great height.
And I passed by that rough jagged pillar of rock which was of a great height, in the middle of that very narrow part of the gulch.
There is no evidence of the distance from which the hay was brought, but as it had been carried to a great height, it was in a position to be conveyed to almost any distance by a violent wind, had such occurred at the time.
They appeared floating slowly down from a great height, as if falling from a dark cloud which hung overhead.
There is a rose window at the west end, and a carved stone chancel screen of great height.
The interior of the cathedral is of great height, and the light stone arches are supported by pillars of polished Aberdeen granite.
The sides of the bay were white cliffs of great height; the middle was low land, with hills rising behind and terminating in a chain of lofty mountains.
It showed a surface of great height, everywhere covered with snow.
Several times during the day the smoke from the burning mountain of Toofoa was seen; at night the flames were observed bursting forth, but to no great height.
The diameter of the base was about sixty feet, the sea within which was much agitated, and foamed up to great height.
In mid-channel both coasts can be seen; the mountains on the north shore rise to a great height in a continuous range, their peaks capped with eternal snows.
This tree sometimes rises to a great height, and is covered with a roughish bark.
It rises to a great height, sometimes fifty or sixty feet.
It grows very fast, and sometimes attains a great height.
One type was square, and of no great height; it had its top ornamented with gradines, below which the sides were either plain or fluted.
This consists of a pole of no great height, fixed upright at the front of a chariot, between the charioteer and the warrior, and carrying at the top a circular frame, within which are artistic representations of gods or sacred animals.
These rise to a great height, and terminate abruptly near where that strange isolated rock called the "Old Man of Hoy" rises straight from the sea as if to guard the islands in the rear.
They appeared to be most numerous on and about two or three perpendicular rocks which rose from the sea like pinnacles to a great height.
It is a grand sight to see these colossal butterflies by twos and threes floating at a great height in the still air of a tropical morning.
There was something human-like in its appearance, as the lean, shaggy creature moved deliberately among the branches at a great height.
One does not realize what a Fourth of July racket we live in and employ in our business till he has been the guest of a monarchy of Europe between whose toes the timothy and clover have sprung up to a great height.
In Ouray, Colorado, the baggageman allowed his trunk to fall from a great height, and so the lid was knocked off and the bust which the professor used in his lecture was busted.
He would fly at a great height, fifteen thousand or more feet, thus assuring himself that there was no enemy above him.
But these latter were of comparatively little avail, for flying over the Channel or the North Sea the invaders naturally flew at a great height.
The Nummulitic limestone forms, in the chain of the Pyrenees, entire mountains of great height; in Egypt it forms strata of considerable extent, and it is of these rocks that the ancient pyramids were built.
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