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Example sentences for "high and"

  • The other party is sneeringly called the "Low and Slow," and corresponds with a similar faction within the High Church which enjoys the sobriquet of the "High and Dry.

  • We are in danger, therefore, of judging them unjustly, especially from the great mixture of high and low, clear and obscure in them.

  • And ever the kindly sun rose high and higher, and ever the staring concourse grew.

  • But Betty Cruise, his widow, was known to all of them, high and low.

  • High and low, they fell to in a frenzy of comradeship, and worked side by side in whatsoever capacity they were needed, whether fitted for it or not.

  • Now grows his mane of billows, high and hoar.

  • Is caught in the blaze, which mounts up high and higher!

  • What is this Greater--this which is to meet The planets and ascend high, high and higher?

  • It is about fourteen or fifteen leagues round, high and mountainous, and very woody.

  • This coast is high and mountainous, and not so thick with trees as that on the other side of Cape Orford.

  • The east part of New Guinea is high and mountainous, ending on the north- east with a large promontory, which I named King William's Cape, in honour of his present Majesty.

  • High and low, blackberries hung in multitudes, swelling to purple ripeness.

  • By the mighty strokes they gave with the coman he guessed that these were the twelve sons of Bawr Sculloge, for none but them could drive the ball so high and far.

  • All the courtiers, the generals, the officers, and every man and woman, high and low, who lived in the palace came in turn to look at the picture.

  • Half-way he was baulked by a hedge, high and thick, which was new to him, but he found a way through a gap.

  • The chief of these are watchmen, they have power To mount on high and to ascend the tower Of this brave fabric, and from thence to see Who keeps their ground, and who the stragglers be.

  • The first time she, by her restlessness, bespake the waters to be high and mighty.

  • But to cut a man off for this, as you forwardly urge, would argue that church, at least I think so, a little too bold with so high and weighty a censure.

  • The land on the west side, being a part of this chain of hills, is high and rocky.

  • One ridge of mountains that bore south was very high and rugged, and from the white patches in it was concluded to be rocky and barren.

  • On the 3rd of January they left the Derwent, and proceeded to the northward, coasting the east side of Frederick Henry Bay, which was for the most part high and steep to the sea.

  • Pulo-Condore is high and mountainous, and surrounded by several smaller islands, some of which are less than one, and others two miles distant.

  • This island is high and woody, and has several small ones lying off to the westward.

  • South of Achachinskoi, the land is not so high and broken as between that bay and the mouth of Awatska, being only of a moderate elevation toward the sea, with hills gradually rising farther back in the country.

  • And another thing, the rock's high and dry--up on the land.

  • There is something like a yard at the back," he announced, "but the fence which shut it in is so high and so protected by means of prickly underbrush that you would have difficulty in climbing it.

  • The look which had awed them at the window was gone, and in its place was one so high and so full of religious faith that for an instant they were conscious of the reversal of all their ideas.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dull green; good works; high angle; high consideration; high crimes and misdemeanors; high dudgeon; high estimation; high explosive; high grass; high importance; high northern; high peak; high plateaus; high polish; high quality; high society; high standing; high station; high velocity; high water; higher degree; higher vertebrates; highly civilized; highly improbable; highly polished; pressed forward