It was such a scene as a man in the very height of prosperity and comfort would hesitate to plunge into, even if there had not risen before him those ghosts in the newspapers which one day or other, if not now, Helen must find out.
Her sense that he had somehow defrauded her by not mounting at once to the very height of his profession, seemed to endow her with a power of judgment a hundred-fold more than was justified by her knowledge of art.
Perhaps, however, the greatest height of Drummond's triumph was reached when, the year having crept round from summer to autumn, his friend Dr Maurice came to call one evening after a visit to Haldane.
For this motion the rising and settings of stars in every Horizon, as well as their culminations at the height of the heavens, are shifted so much that the stars which once were vertical are now some degrees distant from the zenith.
This motion of the waters is incited and the seas rise and fall no less when the moon is below the horizon and in the lowest part of the heavens, than if it had been raised at a height above the horizon.
The little wigwam was just wide enough for a person of ordinary height to lie down in, and in the centre was the fire, so that it may well be imagined that there was not much room to turn round.
When we reached the Landing, the Indian superintendent, to our great satisfaction, invited us to join him in an expedition to the "Height of Land" where he was going to pay the wild Indian tribes their annuity money.
A strange and impressive sight was it when we at length hove in sight of the "Height of Land," a huge rocky eminence like an upturned basin, literally swarming all over with Indians, in every position and every imaginable costume.
In the midst a gigantic porphyry column rose from a massive pedestal, and bore on its summit, at a height of a hundred and twenty cubits, a bronze statue of Apollo by Phidias, which had been carried off from a Phrygian city.
Drawing herself up to her full height with outstretched arms she sighed deeply, as at some remembered joy fled away for ever.
He remembered the story of pupils--that one night the divine master during prayer was upraised by some invisible force to a height of twelve cubits from earth, wrapped in a golden glory.
This foie gras with saffron sauce is theheight of perfection!
Then all fell back again into silence, and in the intent pause large drops of rain could be heard splashing from the height of the roof upon the ringing flagstones.
He lifted the mighty stone to the height of his shoulder, and sent it spinning through the air.
And Flosi marked him, and said to his men: 'I like not the height of the woman who went yonder, nor the breadth of her shoulders.
Its walls to a height of several feet were lined with bookshelves filled to overflowing, the whole representing no less than three or four thousand books; Roberta could hardly guess at their number.
Even in the height of summer doors and windows had to be barred to keep out the smoke, the odour of which would cling to clothes and furniture long after the kelping season was over.
And what no one can fail to appreciate is the situation of the gardens, which rise in terraces from very little above the sea-level up to the height of 100 feet.
It is a low-lying, sandy tract, serpentine in shape, rising towards the north to a height of sixty feet, and surrounded by dangerous rocks.
Menavawr, with its three jagged peaks, is one of the grandest of the barren rocks, and towers up to a height of 140 feet, on one side almost sheer from the sea.
The poor dears had to leap off the wreck into the water--a height as great as from the top of the church tower.
He had entered the wood, and the trail seemed to cleave through a far-stretching, motionless sea of ferns that flowed on either side to the height of his horse's flanks.
In spite of the height of these clear shafts, they seemed dwarfed by the expanse of the wood, and in the farthest perspective the base of ferns and the capital of foliage appeared almost to meet.
The high partitions, leaning forward on their base, grew into a vaulted roof bearing the shape of an immense funnel turned upside down, the height being about five or six hundred yards.
While I watched this phenomenon, two jets of steam and water were ejected from its vents, and rose to the height of 120 feet; thus I ascertained its way of breathing.
The mountain did not rise more than seven or eight hundred feet above the level of the plain; but on the opposite side it commanded from twice that height the depths of this part of the Atlantic.
Enormous trees, the trunks of which attained a height of 200 feet, were tied to each other by garlands of bindweed, real natural hammocks, which a light breeze rocked.
But our upward march was soon stopped at a height of about two hundred and fifty feet by impassable obstacles.
At a height of about 31 feet the nature of the ground changed without becoming more practicable.
Dreams were they; less than dream, the noblest height And farthest; and the chilly woodland wept.
This proceeding, which, even in our own days, would be in the eyes of the world the height of wisdom, was in Luther's eyes the height of folly.
Through the forest they went, and then along the banks of the sluggish river, for many a league, to the height of land which marked the line between King Siegmund's country and the country of the Burgundians.
The roots of this tree are eight inches in diameter, and they sometimes shoot out from the trunk at the height of fifteen feet above the soil.
We expect to see the horizon level with the eye; but, instead of distinguishing at this height a marked limit between the two elements, the more distant strata of water seem to be transformed into vapour, and mingled with the aerial ocean.
The path leading to the spring is so steep that we could touch with our hands the tops of the arborescent ferns, the trunks of which reach a height of more than twenty-five feet.
We may say, that in active volcanoes the frequency of the eruptions is in the inverse ratio of the height and the mass.
Column 3: Lowest height in metres at which snow falls.
We were here again struck with those ligneous excrescences, which in the form of ridges, or ribs, augment to the height of twenty feet above the ground, the thickness of the trunk of the fig-trees of America.
The reddish vapour clouded the horizon anew, and rose to the height of 14 degrees.
The same lianas which creep on the ground, reach the tops of the trees, and pass from one to another at the height of more than a hundred feet.
Having reached half the height of the cone, he fell, and rolled down as far as the small plain of Rambleta; happily a heap of lava, covered with snow, hindered him from rolling farther with accelerated velocity.
There is nothing less impressive from a height of two hundred feet than a pot-bellied man in black broadcloth walking on the ground.
They went in over the edge of the field less than man-height high.
From this height it stretched out for miles, and Bootstrap could be seen as a series of white specks far away with hills behind it.
Her anguish at the prospect of the consequences had reached its height when the emperor, informed of the real state of the case, sent to reassure her.
The Spaniards occupied the heightaround the castle.
Looking over the fork of a tree-trunk, perhaps twice the height of his head above the ground, Anthony beheld a ravishing face and two very bright eyes.
XIX "LA TOSCA" The winter season was at its height now.
In the centre box of the first tier, ornately hung with flags and a coat of arms, Anthony beheld a giant black man of majestic appearance, drawn to his fullheight and flanked by a half-dozen aides in uniform, all at a stiff military salute.
But when we have ascended to such a height what does the word Father mean?
It rose steeply from the water to a height of from ten to fifteen feet.
From the height of Copp's Hill it could be seen that the British had suffered terribly.
In addition to the ladder we shall want a length of rope long enough to go from this window to the ground, and another length of thin rope more than twice the height of the wall.
To propose an abolition of slavery in this country would be the height of madness.
The Cid was now at theheight of his power and lived in great magnificence.
When the battle was at its height the blind king had his followers lead him into the thick of the fight, and he dealt heavy blows upon his unseen foes until he fell mortally wounded.
In the height of the season, steamers leave Southampton for Cowes on the arrival of every Railway train,--and Cowes for Southampton in time to meet every Train: and between Portsmouth and Ryde run about every hour from 7 to 7.
The column of water thrown up to a height of five hundred feet falls in rain with a deafening uproar.
My uncle, whose height had not been thought of in building the house, of course hit his head several times against the beams that projected from the ceilings.
The heat was increasing in a manner to cause us the most fearful anxiety, and certainly the temperature was at this moment at the height of 100 deg.
You might have thought yourself under the rays of a vertical sun in a tropical region at noonday and the height of summer.
It will be easily conceived that after an imprisonment of forty seven days in a narrow gallery it was the height of physical enjoyment to breathe a moist air impregnated with saline particles.
Above our heads, at a height of five hundred feet or more, we saw the crater of a volcano, through.
The islet resembles, with a most deceiving likeness, an enormous cetacean, whose head dominates the waves at a height of twenty yards.
This is a shrub which grows to the height of twelve feet or more.
The plant should not much exceed the height of a man when used for this purpose.
A platform of thick twigs was made among the branches of a tree, at the height of several feet from the ground, near to some one of those plants upon whose leaves or fruit these animals feed.
The mutamba is a small tree, having a straight stem; it grows to the height of eighteen or twenty feet, and to the diameter of twelve or eighteen inches.
One night when the moon was not at a sufficient height to afford a tolerably clear view of the objects around, we were passing through this wood.
The paths are easily distinguished, being very narrow, and the wood uniting above, leaving open below only a shady walk, of the height of the animals which made it.
She floated at the height of the tide, and proceeded to Recife without much damage.
A person who can read, write, and keep accounts has attained the height of perfection, and is much respected; or rather of late years, one who does not know how to do these things is looked down upon.
In the course of the night I had an attack of ague, which would have delayed me at St. Anna even if the height of the waters had not prevented me from proceeding.
One disadvantage, however, attends soil that is low and quite new, which is, that the canes run up to a great height without sufficient thickness, and are thus often lodged before the season for cutting them arrives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "height" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
