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• The balloon rose high in the sky.
• I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
• She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
• Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
• My bank charges me a high interest rate.
• The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
• The note was too high for her to sing.
• The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
• Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
• The tailor liked his meat high.
• a high wind; high passions
• Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
• Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
• with rather a high manner
• An high look and a proud heart [...] is sin.
• His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
• to hear and answer such high things
• Plain living and high thinking are no more.
• high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship
• High time it is this war now ended were.
• High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
• How high above land did you fly?
• Costs have grown higher this year again.
• I certainly can't sing that high.
• They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
• That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown.
• No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
• The sun higheth.
• Men must high them apace, and make haste.
• high quality