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Example sentences for "little above"

  • This ridge, which is called Ladhe ke Dhar, rises a little above 9000 feet, that being the elevation at which the road crosses it.

  • The sun shone out brightly, and was agreeably warm to the feel, while the temperature of the air rose nearly to, or a little above, the freezing-point.

  • On the 25th of August we crossed the Piti river, a little above Lio, and ascended to the village of Nako, on a very steep ridge, which descended from the great mountain Porgyul.

  • This river discharges itself into the Tiber a little above Ocricli; it is not navigable for large vessels.

  • A little above it is Pandosia, which is strongly fortified, before which Alexander the Molossian king was overthrown.

  • The breadth of this is irregular, its length a little above 4000 stadia.

  • The carinal half of the basal margin generally forms an angle with the spur of only a little above a rectangle.

  • A prominent adductor ridge runs, from a little above a middle point of the basal margin, along the slightly prominent articular ridge: the articular furrow is moderately wide.

  • Linum trigynum commences at Mahadeb; Scutellaria a little above, but I have found this at the foot.

  • He said afterwards that he threw them into a well or pond near Tinnis, a little above Hangingshaw, and many a well and many a pond has since been vainly dragged for the lost treasure.

  • It is not often that ancient weapons are found in Tweed, but some years ago, when the river was unusually low, a moss-trooper's spear was recovered at a spot a little above Makerstoun.

  • From the south side, a little above Ellemford, there enters a considerable stream, the water of Dye, said to be of good repute as regards its trout.

  • The left wing struck the Great Kenawha, and followed that stream to the Ohio; the right wing passed the mountains of the Potomac gap, and reached the Ohio a little above Wheeling.

  • It is navigable for vessels requiring ten feet of water, to the Falls of the Rappahannock, a little above Fredericksburg.

  • Windsor is situated upon the Connecticut, a little above Hartford, at the mouth of the Farmington River.

  • The ground here rises abruptly from an extensive alluvial flat, about half a mile in width a little above, but here tapering until it forms quite a narrow defile of not more than thirty or forty rods on each side of the river.

  • The army encamped the first night a little above Pittston, near the confluence of the Susquehanna and Lackawanna Rivers.

  • About a mile and a half within this passage another channel leads off to the northward, in the direction of the Canton river, which it enters a little above Shameen, on the opposite side.

  • On the following day, the 20th, the Nemesis was moved close up to the Factories, or a little above them, for the protection of the whole foreign community.

  • And close by is the vine that St. John the Evangelist planted; and a little above is the chapel of Moses, and the rock where Moses fled for dread when he saw our Lord face to face.

  • A little above is the place where the woman was healed by our Lord, by touching the hem of his garment, while he was surrounded by a crowd in the street[82].

  • From the road, at and a little above Punkabaree, the view is really superb, and very instructive.

  • The manner of which their rising, the apostle doth more distinctly branch out a little above in four particulars, which particulars are these that follow--1.

  • Of the same import also is that other passage of the Apostle a little above in the self-same chapter.

  • The first direct obstacle of this kind occurs a little above a small tributary that falls into the Murray from the north, between the Rufus and the cliffs we have alluded to.

  • A little above it we surprised a small tribe in a temporary shelter; but neither our offers nor presents could prevail on any of them to expose themselves to the torrent that was falling.

  • A little above it the river makes a bend to the left, and the angle at this bend was occupied by a large shoal, one point of which rested on the upper part of the island, and the other touched the proper right bank of the river.

  • We were received by a salute from this establishment, and encamped a little above, on the same side of the river.

  • A little above, and on the south side of the river, is the site of an old Konza town, formerly called the village of the Twenty-four.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little better; little dinner; little disappointed; little essence; little face; little figure; little fish; little food; little gesture; little grimace; little groups; little laugh; little man; little masters; little minced; little nearer; little pale; little poem; little rabbit; little season; little seasonal temperature variation; little speech; little surprized; little things; little weary; little wonder