Her brother entered the drawing-room at Grandison Square with his headhigher in the air than ever, while Phoebe looked as usual serenely pretty and contented.
It almost seemed as if she had increased in stature during the last few days; certainly she held her head higher in the air.
Men are never in higher spirits than when they are going to kill, or be killed themselves, or see something else killed.
Nature is more constructive than destructive, and she is ever at work evolving and evolving a higher dream.
Actually, however, it is scarcely more absurd than many similar, if more distinguished, bulls gaily crashing about on higher planes.
This, of course, has its drawbacks, and sets the seal of consumption on many a victim that might have escaped inhigher latitudes.
And this is the curse which I pronounce on thee," she murmured in a hoarse whisper, which, rising and rising to higher tones, finally ended in shrieks which reached to the outermost precincts of the Forum.
Arminius Quirinius, ever grasping for money, ever ready for any act of cupidity or oppression, knew that from the mother he could extract a far higher sum than the girl could possibly fetch in the open market.
I once heard him when his trill was divided into two portions, the concluding half being much higher than the other--unless my ear was at fault, exactly an octave higher.
Up he went, in a large spiral, "higher still and higher" till the cedar cut off my view for an instant, after which I could not again get my eye upon him.
You may hear it continually in the higher spruce forests of the White Mountains; but you will look a good many times before you discover its author, and not improbably will begin by taking it for the call of the kinglet.
Nearly the same might be said of the prairie warbler; but his étude is a little longer and less hurried, besides being in a higher key.
Like the snow buntings and the red-polls, they roam over the higher latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, and make only irregular visits to our corner of the world.
The highergrade mathematics work in Indianapolis is extremely concrete.
While many agricultural anachronisms may be laid to the door of the redskins, planting by the moon and several equally absurd customs are traceable to the higher civilization of Western Europe.
Be that as it may, the facts glower menacingly at us from city, town and countryside,--the overcrowded elementary grades and the higher schools with but a scant proportion of the students.
Higher education at Lowville is education for everyone in Lowville and vicinity who wants it.
With one eye on community needs and the other on the best means of supplying them, the Lowville Academy is giving to the citizens of Lowville a twentieth century higher education.
Smith, the children's clubs have become one of the most aggressive factors in educating rural communities to higher standards of efficiency.
But I have sometimes fancied that the idea we attach to the word brother is higherbecause no commonplace reality has ever stepped in to spoil it.
O what is greener than the gress, what’s higher than thae trees?
Higher up than this they painted the façade of the house where there is the image which is called the Imagine di Ponte, wherein are seen several stories illustrated by them, with the Senatorial Order dressed in the garb of ancient Rome.
De wind, it begin gettin higher en higher en de boat, it go dis way en den it go de other way.
All that family drown out because they wouldn't go to this lady house on higher ground.
My grandpap say no race can rise higher than its women.
When Mr. Trowell got up a littlehigher than what he was, he trade his Lena place for a place at Stafford.
They say Marse Tom promised befo' he left to pass a bill dat no fence was to be higher than five rails, to suit fox hunters.
When one lady is of higher rank than the other, should she offer to shake hands, it would be a compliment and a mark of friendliness on her part.
When Introductions are made between Ladies=, an unmarried lady should be introduced to a married lady, unless the unmarried lady is of a higher rank than the married lady, when the rule is reversed.
Persons still higher in the social scale, give receptions in their honour, and invite them to stay at their princely mansions.
New-comers, even if of higher rank, should not call on residents in the first instance, but should wait until the residents have taken the initiative.
This bowl used to be kept at Higher Combe; it represented a stag-hunt.
Sir Thomas had a hunting box at Higher Combe (called in the district Yarcombe); he occupied one portion of the house when there, a farmer occupied the rest.
The horse was one he coveted, but it was bought at a higher figure than he cared to give for it by Sir Walter C----.
In connexion with these expeditions to Higher Combe, it may be added that the cavalcade of tenants would attend Sir Thomas to the wood where a stag had been harboured.
Indeed cabinet-making never attained a higher degree of delicacy and perfection than at this period.
Near the base of the mountain will be found a tropical climate, above that a temperate climate, while in still higher regions, the climate of the Arctic region.
These curious jets of molten rock certainly cannot be due to the pressure of higher columns of lava, since the crater itself is near the top of a high plain.
In some cases these fissures or fractured parts of the crust are left with one of their sides at a higher level than the opposite side.
As they rise higher and higher they become less solid and finally expand into fused masses that can flow out of the crater or opening in the earth's surface.
This occurred in the Bengal earthquake in 1762, when an area of some sixty square miles suddenly sank, leaving only the tops of the higher points above water.
Its formation is, probably, due to the gradual sinking of a volcanic mountain until its crater has been almost completely submerged, only the higher parts of the edges of the crater being left above the surface of the waters.
Moreover, as in the case of the eruption of Krakatoa, there were the same after glows or red sunsets and sunrises due to the presence of fine volcanic dust in the higher regions of the air.
At higher elevations, such as on the slopes of mountains, or on high plateaus, water boils at a lower temperature.
But leaving these inconspicuous craters, let us briefly examine some of the higher mountain peaks of the United States that are of volcanic origin.
When these patches are examined by a higher power of the microscope they are seen to consist of small solid particles of definite forms known as microliths and crystallites.
In some cases houses were suddenly raised a great distance in the air, and were afterwards brought down again to a position of rest, at a higher level without any damage occurring to them.
You might go over all the coasts of the island without seeing anything larger than a birch bush, not much higher than six feet.
Its floor, viewed from above, appears to be composed of a series of flat surfaces occupying two distinct levels, the higher upon the surface of the black ledge, the lower lying within the ledge.
The special models were generally higher in price.
It consisted of reeds, canes, and scrub, much higher than a man's head, so that we had to guide ourselves by means of a compass.
But just as I was about to commit myself to the waves, I saw a black, triangular object cutting through the water between me and the higher portion of the shoal I had just left.
And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine, God's Presence and His very Self, And Essence all divine.
This is sung three times in successively higher keys by the celebrant, unaccompanied, and each time is repeated by the choir in the same key as taken by the celebrant (with accompaniment, if preferred).
But a still higher rank in the same class is occupied by Sigismondo Benini, a scholar of Massarotti, the inventor of beautiful methods in his landscapes, with well retiring grounds, and with all the accidents of light well portrayed.
In his figures he was extremely studied, and admirable in his method of grouping them in the distance, so as to throw the low grounds back, and bring down the higher parts with a gentle gradation.
Such a fact is calculated to bring into still higher estimation the geniuses who adorned it.
Giovanni Bazzani, a pupil of Canti, was endowed with a higher genius for the art than his master, and laid a better foundation for excellence by the cultivation of his mind, by careful study, and by copying from the most esteemed models.
Early in my religious life I became conscious that the law of development is written in the Christian heart, and that this law, if given full scope, will raise us year after year into higher degrees of perfection.
I attended many churches, heard many noted preachers, my soul suffering the while from awful convictions and desires for a higher life, but without a ray of light.
The two girls placed themselves in front of the only vacant box, and I sat behind on the second bench, which was a foot and a halfhigher than the first.
But we are never to forget that the differences are real as the resemblances, and that it is reserved for the higher form of our experiences in a future life to 'enter into the joy of the Lord.
So the reference is obviously to higher orders of beings, either higherby creation as angels, or higher because they have died, and are glorious saints before the Throne.
It has become a commonplace thing now to say that the bravery which dares to do right in the face of all opposition is higher than that of the soldier who flings away his life on the battlefield.
And even he who thirsts for nobler occupations and lives for higher aims is often obliged to admit, in weariness, that 'this also is vanity.
The deeper down we go into the depths, the surer is the rebound and the higher the soaring to the zenith.
Christ has taught us here to put this petition after these loftier ones, and He has taught us to pass quickly by it to the more noble and higher needs of the soul.
We must rise higher than that; we must feel, if we would understand the 'unspeakable gift,' that it is the gift of Himself to dwell within us by His Spirit as the very spirit of our lives.
We claim, of course, no such authority for present utterers of that eternal message, but we do claim for our message a higher authority than the authority of this ancient Prophet.
The higher the dam is piled, the deeper the water that is gathered behind it, and the surer and more destructive the flood when it bursts.
There is no reference to the truth which is sometimes forcibly inserted into this saying, that man has a higher than bodily life, and needs more than material bread to feed the hunger of the soul.
Even smoke needs but a higher temperature to flame; and fear which is mingled with faith needs but a little more heat to be converted into radiance of trust.
This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in the history of the pastime.
The team average of the Giants was 50 points higher than that of Boston.
Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen for years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as pitcher.
Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to batting it would have rated higher among the organization of the National League.
The general tone of the players is far higher than it was and there has come into evidence a marked improvement in the spirit of the men who own Base Ball clubs.
You know, of course," the doctor went on quietly and deliberately, "that everything in this world is insignificant and uninteresting except the higher spiritual manifestations of the human mind.
The younger flung up the cockerel with all his might; the bird flew upwards higher than the house and turned over in the air like a pigeon.
The lower the organism, the less sensitive it is, and the more feebly it reacts to stimulus; and the higher it is, the more responsively and vigorously it reacts to reality.
They thought of that in man which is higher than good birth, higher than rank and wealth and learning, of that which brings the lowest beggar near to God: of the helplessness of man, of his sufferings and his patience.
Even the educated class do not rise above vulgarity; the level of their development, I assure you, is not a bithigher than that of the lower orders.
Nay, but the highermob do not expect such success.
Sir, when one lives to our age, one feels that in a higher degree than from their change of place!
The affixing a higher value to the Pietro Cortona than to the octagon Guido is most absurd--I have often gazed on the latter, and preferred it even to the Doctor's.
Thus, being quite out of the question, I will explain my maxim, which is the more wholesome, the higher it is addressed.
But surely you have higher and more sacred duties than the government of a mole-hill!
There is a stretch of surf in the foreground and beyond the islands rise higher and higher to the peak of Mount Desert.
Of course this sentence would have been overthrown in any higher court, but the man had no money.
I seemed at those times to be in a higher mood than usual.
A man, who had chosen cooking as a career and cooked passionately, threw all his energy into soups and souffles ranked higher with her than a listless, perfunctory poet.
He had accepted the theory of evolution end higher criticism.
The form is somewhat like Stainer's, but higher and heavier in construction.
A more fitting present or higher compliment could not have been offered.
Enjoying the friendship of those who moved in the higher circles of society, where his polished manners and high attainments ever made him a welcome guest, he was enabled to command such patronage as to make his laudable ventures successful.
Christie and Manson, in the year 1857, a well-known amateur purchased the Violin for the sum of seventy pounds, the loss of its scroll preventing the realisation of a higher figure.
The execution of chamber compositions belonging to the higher walks of counterpoint is frequently disappointing, but seldom or never is the failure so gracefully and agreeably accounted for.
I saw a head protruding which augured well for the body, and led me to think it belonged to the higher walks of Fiddle-life.
His instruments are either copies of Amati or of Stainer; there is, of course, a strong Italian flavour about his Stainer copies, which lifts them above the German school of imitators, and hence their higher value.
But for this deviation, the works of the early Amati and a few others would have occupied a higher position than that which they now command.
The instruments of this maker will, at no distant date, be valued higher than they are at the present time.
Labels used as the trade marks of many deserving makers have from time to time been removed from their lawful instruments in order that others bearing a higher marketable value might be substituted.
Forster's instruments were the favourite equipment of Robert Lindley, and their value in his day was relatively far higher than at the present moment.
They are higher modelled, the sound-holes less elegant, and the scroll heavier.
