Lowlands and the Highlands; Loch Lomond skirts the western border, and on the northern Loch Katrine, stretching into Perthshire; Ben Lomond and lesser heights rise in the NW.
The very varied heights afford all kinds of vegetation, from wheat and maize to tropical fruits.
British Legation, besides many of the bazaars and wealthy merchant's houses; heat during the summer drives the court, foreign embassies, and others to the cooler heights in the N.
They were large, and to look into them seemed like looking into the transparent depths of an unfathomed sea--into the transparent heights of an inexhaustible heaven.
Men and women who had climbed the heights had leisure to glance down at those nearer the foot of the hill, and to send back a cheering hail.
Looking back from the unclouded heights of mature age, I see that my childish valuation of him was correct.
Another essay of the same year, "on the different style in Goethe's earlier and later works," shews with what a discriminating eye the young critic had already scanned all the heights and the depths of this wonderful poet.
The Emperor, half identified with the Deity, had alone the privilege in ancient times of offering on the sacred heights the great sacrifice to God.
The professors of physical science have been busy making important observations on the condition of the atmosphere in the higher regions; geographers have noted their heights and mapped their leading contours.
Some are too steep for the snow to rest upon them, and therefore remain bare at heights much greater than the so-called "limit of perpetual snow," and that limit varies considerably.
The great heights reached by some mountains produce such a powerful impression on our senses that we hardly realise how very insignificant they really are.
Made a demonstration by forming two lines upon the heights over the Hormuza at Isar.
Sidenote: 23rd] The Division moved and assembled upon the heightsnear Horquera.
Don Manuel Freyre, with his Spanish Division, fought very spiritedly in the town, and also upon the heights of San Marcial, when the French attempted to crown them.
The army we saw formed upon the heights in the rear of this place, and this was called the position that we were to fight upon—at least, we fully expected it from present appearances.
The heights and village of Cazal Nova were spiritedly attacked by Major Stewart with the left wing 95th Rifles, and the other wing soon followed.
The 17th Portuguese occupied theheights for the night and we returned to our encampment near the Bidasoa and Vera.
We found the army all collected; several commanding heights were strengthened and breast-works thrown up.
Sidenote: 14th] Remained quiet here until the afternoon of the 14th; moved out of the town and marched and encamped upon the heights above Sumbilla.
General Graham was ordered forward and the Light Division was directed to clear the heights in our front.
Sidenote: 6th] Moved to the heights between Flores de Avila and Peñaranda.
Sidenote: 19th] Moved to the heights of Monte Rubio near the village of La Lengua.
Even on mountain-heights of similar altitudes, where not only climate, but other physical conditions would suggest a recurrence of identical animals, we do not find the same, but representative types.
The sound of the battle of to-day dies; the fresh blood-stains fade; and I seem to wake upon the heights of Tusculum, in the days of Tiberius.
But with Browning, as with Shakspere, as with Victor Hugo, it is difficult for our vision to penetrate the glow irradiating the supreme heights of accomplishment.
But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest with, borne on Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
But the heights shall reward you, if not with mayflowers with greater and more lasting joys.
The spring seeking motorist finds his first mayflowers there as the grade leads up Manomet heights and may expect them by the roadside anywhere, after that.
I had seen pilgrims of one kind or another stumbling on their way many times previous to that stormy afternoon that I climbed the heights behind Vailima, but always without comprehending what it was that urged them forward.
A froth-white lace collar of surf reveals the outer reef, and across the cloud-mottled indigo sea loom the fantastic heights of the mountains and cliffs behind Tautira.
Last year a hose company was formed on the heights for fire protection.
He stands to-day a lonely but alluring figure, on whose heights those who choose to follow may find in him the charming companion, the accomplished scholar, the earnest inquirer, the inspiring instructor.
He is also a charter member of the Washington Heights Chemical Engine Co.
Captain Jackson was with his regiment at the battles of Harlem Heights and White Plains.
While this elevated range is severed by many deep glens and valleys, the Alpine heights hold within their rocky crests, ponds and lakes of pure water, which glitter like diamonds in the noontide sun.
To stop this 120 cannon were placed on Stafford Heights overlooking Fredericksburg, and began firing shells into the city and among the sharpshooters.
From this point are seen, to the most striking advantage, the two mountainous elevations on which Constantinople and Pera are built, and other heights surrounding.
Or, suppose the traveller to have bent his steps in a north-easterly direction, towards the foot of that gentle slope which terminates at the base of the heights of Highgate and of Hampstead.
To those thus dowered, the heights of rapture are accessible, the abysses of despair yawn threateningly; only the dull monotony of contentment is denied.
He who would climb the heights of life must leave even the pleasantest valleys behind.
In order, therefore, to compare with each other with exactness barometric observations made at different temperatures, it is necessary to reduce them to the heights at which they would stand at some uniform temperature.
Not only are columns of various heights and diameters made to do duty in the same colonnade, but even different orders stand side by side (e.
In the "cistern barometer" the tube is placed with its open end in a basin of mercury, and the atmospheric pressure is measured by the difference of the heights of the mercury in the tube and the cistern.
They are surmounted by two cylinders, of unequal capacities--this inequality bearing a given proportion to the difference in the heights of the rising and falling branches of the Syphon.
Fearful stories were told of the gulfs, sullen waters, and dizzy heights upon that terror-haunted mountain.
In his dreamy moods his fancy spread a broader, a stronger wing, and soared with new daring to heights unexplored before.
He had not believed it possible for mortal to love more wholly--more madly than he had loved the little Virginia before that sacred ceremony, but after it he knew there were heights of love of which he had not hitherto had a glimpse.
From theheights of the Acropolis the growing army might be seen.
It had three lines of circumvallation, and upon the heights which surrounded it there extended a wall fortified with towers.
From the bottom of the Mappalian quarter, from the heights of the Acropolis, from the catacombs, from the borders of the lake, the multitude came in haste.
In fact four hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans, and Spartans had gained the heights at the beginning, and had remained there in uncertainty until now.
He rises to his greatestheights in addressing cardinals.
You walk on the cliff side, steep verdurous heights above and below, looking through tree-tops on the shimmering sea and the purple mountains beyond, for ten miles at a stretch, wondering why nobody else is there.
Few British heights have the striking outline of Croagh Patrick, which may be called the Matterhorn of Ireland.
One by one it liberated from the enmeshments of its tangled wooded heights the constellations to gladden the eye and lure the fancy.
All at once the contour of the place was plain to him; the ledge led behind the cataract that fell from the beetling heights above.
He could have made the sovereign heights resound With questions of the wherefore of her state: He on far other but an hour before Intent.
From labours through the night, outworn, Above the hills the front of morn We see, whose eyes to heights are raised, And the world's wise may deem us crazed.
We have then the key-note for debate: A Senate that sits on the heights Over discords, to shape and amend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
