Certes, it is not strange in England, to see oxen whose hornes haue the length of a yard or three foot betweene the tips, and they themselues thereto so tall, as the heigth of a man of meane and indifferent stature is scarse equall vnto them.
I might (if I thought good) speake also of another of no lesse heigth than either of these and liuing of late yeares, but these here remembred shall suffice to prooue my purpose withall.
What should I speake of Artaceas a capitaine in the host of Xerxes, afore remembred, whose heigth was within 4.
Arrhianus saith, that in the time of Alexander the bodies of the Asianes were generallie of huge stature, and commonlie of fiue cubits, and such was the heigth of Porus of Inde, whom the said Alexander vanquished and ouerthrew in battell.
And the heigth being taken here, we found ourselues to be in the latitude of 60 degrees and a halfe, and were fallen with the Southermost part of this land.
It is needlesse to speake of the height of the mountaines that I passed ouer, and of the danger thereof, it is so wel knowen already to the world: the heigth of them is marueilous, and I was the space of sixe dayes in passing them.
Of such a proportion as the common stature might be considered and perfectly seene, notwithstanding the exceeding heigth thereof in the ayre.
The 24 of the sayd moneth at the Admirals direction wee diuided our selues East and West from ech other, being then in the heigth of 43 degrees, with commaundement at night to come together againe.
October, the winde being faire: and the 16 of the same moneth we were in the heigth of Cape S.
The 21 day we found our selues to be in 20 degrees and a halfe, which is the heigth of Cape Blank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heigth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
