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Example sentences for "its height"

  • Sire, my joy is at its height, at having the honor to salute your majesty in your own palace of St. James's.

  • The curiosity of the Parisians was at its height, and, as we have said, an immense crowd waited with feverish impatience the hour fixed for the execution.

  • His joy was at its height on that day when called upon to share the secret of Cropoli the younger, and to paint the famous sign.

  • Near midnight, the revelry was at its height.

  • It was in 1795, while the popular affection for France was at its height, that a merchant-vessel flying the British flag sailed into Boston Harbor, and made fast to the Long Wharf.

  • While the popular clamor against the hateful right of search was still at its height in America, Great Britain unwisely added yet another outrage to the already long list of grievances complained of by the Americans.

  • At first, as in all these gambling mania, confidence was at its height, and every body gained.

  • All those suspected of illegal profits at the time the public delusion was at its height, were sought out and amerced in heavy fines.

  • The impatience of the army was at its height.

  • Russia's intention to resume hostilities was now plainly evident, and in the first excitement of the news the Emperor's astonishment was at its height.

  • A great battle with the French was talked of; enthusiasm was at its height in the Russian army, and every soldier had fastened to his cap a green branch.

  • Its height, by this circumstance, was neither increased nor diminished apparently.

  • The taste of powdering was at its height in this island.

  • The largest house I saw was about sixty feet long, eight or nine feet high in the middle, and three or four at each end; its breadth, at these parts, was nearly equal to its height.

  • The impiety of men being at its height, was regarded as a great sign that the consummation was at hand.

  • The day is at hand, for the abomination is at its height.

  • The offence was now at its height: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

  • The fear of the appointment by the crown of a governor-general for New England was at its height, and so the application, though it met with favor from the majority of the deputies, was rejected by the court of assistants.

  • At this time the war between De la Tour and D'Aulnay was at its height, and the Dutch complaints added to the general alarm.

  • The storm of theological rancor was at its height.

  • They reached Boston from England in July, 1637, when the Antinomian quarrel was at its height, and Davenport was a member of the synod which devoted most of its time to the settlement, or rather the aggravation, of the Antinomian difficulty.

  • Thus Britain found herself faced with an imperial problem of apparently insuperable difficulty, which reached its most acute stage just at the time when the American trouble was at its height.

  • During the whole course of the terrible scene which was now at its height, one man in the jail suffered a degree of fear and mental torment which had no parallel in the endurance even of those who lay under sentence of death.

  • This Observation on the Commonwealth, when it was in its height of Power and Riches, holds good of all Governments that are settled in a State of Ease and Prosperity.

  • However, to avoid publick Blood-shed, as soon as his Passion is wrought to its Height, he follows his Sister the whole length of the Stage, and forbears killing her till they are both withdrawn behind the Scenes.

  • The indifference of the egoist farmers in the country is at its height; they pay no respect whatever to the laws, killing the poor by refusing to sell, or unwilling to sell their grain at a price they can pay.

  • As long as bran lasted the people ate that; none can now be found and despair is at its height.

  • The popular hatred of Hébert is at its height.

  • The privations of the department with respect to subsistence cannot be over-stated to you; the evil is at its height.

  • In the time of Herodotus the fame of Babylon was at its height, and the father of history has left us a most entertaining account of what he saw when he visited the wonderful capital.

  • Alexandrian science was at its height, but that the second century produced also in Hipparchus at least one investigator of the very first rank; though, to be sure, Hipparchus can be called an Alexandrian only by courtesy.

  • He announced that the mischief was at its height, and the people urged to every kind of excess.

  • The tumult was at its height; each only answered the dictates of his own passions.

  • The public denounced, under the name of comité Autrichien, a secret committee, the very existence of which could not be proved, and mistrust was at its height.

  • But the day that raised his popularity to its height put a term to it.

  • Consternation reigned; and when it was reported that a woman had been killed in Dutoitspan Road, the excitement was at its height.

  • When the blaze was at its height a few small shells fell amid the gesticulating throng of sight-seers.

  • The work had been inaugurated when the bombardment was at its height, and the muscular energy it brought into play was magnificent.

  • Module, its height is half a Module, comprising the Dorick Cymatium, which is under it.

  • Frise, with a Jetting equal to its height.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blank space; colored persons; grandfather said; inner pocket; its application; its body; its character; its contents; its course; its effect; its effect upon the; its first; its full; its inhabitants; its length; its original; its owner; its power; its proper; its true; its use; its walls; its work; school hours; suddenly came; third base