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Example sentences for "still higher"

  • Such a man, too, before long, was raised to a still higher level in the estimation of his fellow-monks.

  • There is a still higher pagoda (332 feet high) at Pegu, and the most ancient of all is at Arakan.

  • But if the whole is not given, and can only be given by and through the empirical regress, I can only say: "It is possible to infinity, to proceed to still higher conditions in the series.

  • They enjoyed a clear sky and a mild climate, and their pursuits as shepherds favored long-continued observations; while the admiration and respect accorded to the profession, rendered it an object of still higher ambition.

  • Might we, then, join these two in a still higher unity, expressed under a more comprehensive law?

  • It is always possible that a still higher member of the series may be found; and that being so, it is our duty to search for it.

  • And there is still higher evidence, not only that the framers of the Constitution meant by this clause to protect slavery, but that they did this, knowing that slavery was wrong.

  • If the growth of population be attended by an increase of capital, this happens in a still higher degree.

  • The high wages paid in young colonies are frequently made temporarily still higher, by a large influx of capital in the shape of money, brought by emigrants, and by government outlays.

  • But, indeed, when the danger attending any kind of work is made glorious by the romantic light of honor, or by still higher motives, it ceases to have any influence on wages.

  • Sacred as that relic of the devotion of our ancestors deserves to be kept, there are temples of Nature, temples built by the Almighty, which have a still higher claim to be left unviolated.

  • It starts from a high point of imagination, and comes round, through various wanderings of that faculty, to a still higher--nothing less than the apotheosis of the animal who gives the first of the two titles to the poem.

  • Above is a window corresponding with those in the clerestory; and, still higher, a row of interlaced arches, also semi-circular.

  • That death, so-called, is but the change from one form of life to another, which is still higher in the scale of progress.

  • Quickened by such an added potency of perfect, co-operative, mental, conditions, our inventors would naturally aspire to still higher achievements.

  • Then, still higher, still and ever higher, did it roll until it finally reached what seemed to be the very fringe of heaven.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already observed; fatal mistake; lighted lamp; return from; still alive; still another; still called; still continued; still existing; still extant; still further; still going; still have; still held; still holds; still later; still living; still possible; still remember; still the; still think; still tongue; still very; still visible; still water; still worse