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Sentences ending with heights

The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
It was one which I had rented from Howard Ogilvy, and it stood on the corner of Baker and Clinton streets, near that fashionable neighbourhood called "the Heights. [9]
Hour after hour we slopped along, by the roaring torrent, and under noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights. [5]
In one place the road was tunneled through a shoulder of the mountain; from there one looked down into a gorge with a rushing torrent in it, and on every hand was a charming view of rocky buttresses and wooded heights. [5]
It's a pretty street, sir--perhaps you know it--you take the Fanshawe Avenue cars to Sherman Heights. [9]
But now I see it; it returns: it is the impression of colour in the senses, left from the night that lady-bug Mathilde flashed out on the Heights! [11]
The McAlerys and other older families who had not decayed with the neighbourhood were rapidly deserting it, moving out to the new residence district known as "the Heights. [9]
This is the only country in the world where youth, talent, and energy can reach such heights. [5]
And so his mind was carried far to the northward to the memory of that day in the summer-house on the Meramee heights. [9]
On the 12th it was determined to abandon the city and take possession of Harlem Heights. [4]

Sentences containing heights two or more times

After years of play and work,--play in France and stout work in the Spaniards' country,--he was shipped away to 'Those battle heights, Quebec heights, our own heights, The citadel our golden lily bears, And Frontenac--' But I babble again. [11]
But when he had been on the Semenovsk heights the artillery commander had proposed to him to bring several batteries of artillery up to those heights to strengthen the fire on the Russian troops crowded in front of Knyazkovo. [2]

More example sentences with the word heights in them

From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
Had not the wings which, as Nike, belonged to her been lacking, every one would have been convinced that she was flying--that she had just descended from the heights of Olympus to crown the kneeling victor. [10]
Now the paupers were gone, and where the old mansions that had fallen to their use once stood, there towered aloft and abroad those heights and masses of many-storied brick-work for which architecture has yet no proper form and aesthetics no name. [8]
Although the occurrence was unusual,--it might almost be said epoch-making,--Jethro did not speak of it until they had reached the sparkling heights of Thousand Acre Hill the next morning. [9]
Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb of the sun. [2]
I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
Visitors always go up there to look down into the church because one gets the best idea of some of the heights and distances from that point. [5]
This basin of unbroken green rises away to the south and southeast into the rocky heights of Dix's Peak and Nipple Top,--the latter a local name which neither the mountain nor the fastidious tourist is able to shake off. [4]
As I walked towards the heights, the other morning, and passed an orchard, the gardener, who saw my ineffectual efforts, with a very long cane, to reach the boughs of a tree, came down to me with a basketful he had been picking. [4]
They had stood together on the heights of the larger view, whence the whole of the battle-line lay disclosed. [9]
If he were to gain the heights, only to stumble in the sight of all men, to stumble and fall. [9]
From those heights they spy out the land, and from thence have, more than once, descended upon the sea-road between Castellamare and Sorrento, and caught up English and German travelers. [4]
The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
The country between the two mountain ranges was rich and fruitful, and from the heights waterfalls and torrents rushed into the valley. [10]
All the morning the tubes remained directed toward the mountain heights, each with its anxious group around it; but the white deserts were vacant. [5]
As I left the rude taverns of a morning and jogged along the heights, I watched the vapors rise and troll away from the valleys far beneath, and saw great flocks of ducks and swans and cackling geese darkening the air in their southward flight. [9]
Return, return, to the right levels, the right heights, the right depth, the right measure! [10]
I was in the next boat to the General's, for, with Clark and twenty-two other volunteers to the forlorn hope, I was to show the way up the heights, and we were near to his person for over two hours that night. [11]
The heights and the lilies are there, but Frontenac, the great, brave Frontenac, is gone: confusion lives where only conquest and honest quarrelling were--" "Frontenac will return--there is no other way! [11]
Nearer still, from the heights, there was the same strange scintillation; the great promontory had a coronet of stars. [11]
Looking again to the Heights, I saw that the woman had gone. [11]
Far up on the Heights we heard the calling of bugles and the beating of drums; and now I saw the whole large plan, the deep dramatic scheme. [11]
And now from the heights of Sark above there rang out a cry from the lips of the affrighted islanders: "War--war--war--war! [11]
You, Paula, from the heights of Lebanon, know what ice is. [10]
In such weather the heights of Helicon seemed as attainable as the peak of Holdfast; and he had but to beckon a shining Pegasus from out a sun-shaft in the sky. [9]
We were on the heights behind the town,--we were at the back door, as it were. [9]
But many, like the Brinsmades and the Russells, the Tiptons and the Hollingsworths, retired to the local paradise of their country places on the Bellefontaine road, on the cool heights above the river. [9]
Epicurus, who believes that the gods merely watch the destiny of men inactively from their blissful heights, is right. [10]
The telescopulist--or the telescopulariat--I do not know which is right--said a party were making a grand ascent, and would come in sight on the remote upper heights, presently; so we waited to observe this performance. [5]
After dinner we talked with several Englishmen, and they inflamed our desire to a hotter degree than ever, to see the sights of Meiringen from the heights of the Bruenig Pass. [5]
I did not stir when--ineffaceable brutality--the batteries on the heights began to play upon us, the shot falling round us, and passing over our heads, and musket-firing followed. [11]
The sun was still on the heights, which were calm, strong, peaceful. [4]
Jethro did not speak, but slipped his hand into hers, and thus they stood for a long time gazing at the snow fields between the pines on the heights of Coniston. [9]
They receive their soul from the heights of heaven, the seat and source of light; their material body is of the earth; and the appearance or outward form by which one human being is distinguished from another at sight--his phantom or shadow--belongs to the depths. [10]
This one was skipping about the upper great heights of the mosque --skipping across empty yawning intervals which were almost too wide for him, and which he only just barely cleared, each time, by the skin of his teeth. [5]
It was half-past six, and the sun had set, before they saw the lights twinkling all yellow on the heights of Fort George. [9]
At last the setting moon emerged from the grey clouds, and her peaceful light silvered the heights of Baal-zephon and the shore of the bay, whose bottom was once more covered with tossing waves. [10]
In short, he set Jake to thinking deeply as his horse walked up the western heights of Coniston on the return journey. [9]
As though the salute were meant for him, Doltaire bowed twice impressively, and then we stepped forward, the great fire over against the Heights lighting us and hurrying us on. [11]
Part of the Russian force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack and regarded as the key to the position. [2]
Sorrento, ancient and romantic city, lies at the southwest end of this plain, built along the sheer sea precipice, and running back to the hills,--a city of such narrow streets, high walls, and luxuriant groves that it can be seen only from the heights adjacent. [4]
There is a quality of refinement in their granite robustness; their desolate, bare heights and sky-scraping ridges are rosy in the dawn and violet at sunset, and their profound green gulfs are still mysterious. [4]
When we had proceeded some yards and were entering darkness, we turned about and had a dainty sunlit picture of distant woods and heights framed in the strong arch of the tunnel and seen through the tender blue radiance of the tunnel's atmosphere. [5]
The Heights of Pratzen are before you. [11]
About the little porch were carved initials and dates, at various heights, from the stature of nine to that of eighteen. [6]
Our sentries already patrolled the streets, and our bugles were calling on the heights, with answering calls from the fleet in the basin. [11]
I mention it only to show to what heights of folly the young men had gone. [9]
The canal abandoned, one red night fleet and transports swept around the bend and passed the city's heights, on a red river. [9]
She looked back once towards the heights of Quebec and saw the fires of many homes--they scorched her eyes. [11]
All was still on the wooded heights and in the wide valley. [11]
Leaning against one of the timbers and half seated, with the softened roar of the city in his ears, the lights gleaming on the heights, the river flowing dark and silent, he began to be conscious of his situation. [4]
In her heart of hearts she was sure he had done it directly or indirectly for her sake; and that was infinitely more to her than that he should stoop from the heights to pick her up. [11]
These Alpine heights of extravagance climb up from the humble valley where shillings and sixpences are all that are required to make you a purchaser. [6]
The vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand's and Gibrard's divisions, which under his leadership will be directed against the redoubt and come into line with the rest of the forces. [2]
I can see now the tall shining heights of Quebec, the pretty wooded Island of Orleans, the winding channel, so deep, so strong. [11]
There flashed through my mind the remembrance of Mathilde in her scarlet robe as she stood on the Heights that momentous night of my arrest. [11]
He casually asked Mr. Dickinson if he had ever noticed a tract lying on the river about two miles beyond the Heights, opposite what used to be in the old days a road house. [9]
His requirements raised mountain after mountain in my path, but the thought of being compelled to scale these heights not only did not repel me, but seemed extremely attractive. [10]
There is nothing more beautiful than the moderate, finely rounded heights at these peaceful spots rich in vegetation and in water, when gilded by the fading light of a lovely summer evening or illumined by the rosy tinge of the afterglow. [10]
He had a mind, an intellect, he must possess stores of the knowledge for which she thirsted; he appeared to her as one who had studied and travelled, who had ascended heights and gained the wider view denied her. [9]
These rich mountain meadows are found on all the heights of this region. [4]
It lifts a man away from the fret of life, and sets his feet on the heights where lies repose. [11]
He never took longer and swifter steps than when his mind was occupied with such meditations, and when he reached Stephanus' cave he thought the way from the oasis to the heights had been shorter than usual. [10]
I came to know afterwards that it was he who had induced Montcalm to send the battalion of Guienne to the heights above the Anse du Foulon. [11]
After five o'clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade (delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our retreating forces. [2]
From the Chaussey Isles the filibuster saw the signal light which the traitor Olivier Delagarde had set upon the heights of Le Couperon, where, ages ago, Caesar built fires to summon from Gaul his devouring legions. [11]
How delicious it is to breathe the pure, light, aromatic air on the heights, before the rays of the sun acquire their mid-day power, and the shadows of the heated porphyry cliffs, growing shorter and shorter, at last wholly disappear! [10]
Its summit, divided into seven peaks, towered majestically aloft in the distance, dominating the heights and valleys far and near, glowing before the people like a giant ruby, irradiated by the light of a conflagration which was consuming the world. [10]
There was little interchange of friendliness and trade between the rival colonists; and Frenchmen were as rare on Manhattan Island as Englishmen on the heights of Quebec--except as prisoners. [11]
A lover, who hopes everything and fears everything, who goes in an instant from the heights of bliss to the depths of despair. [4]
Then, pursing up his lower lip, and with a growing amazement which carried him to distant heights of reckless language, he said again: "By the head of John the Baptist on a charger! [11]
He had believed himself to be the happiest of mortals, and he had suddenly become the most miserable; no one, he believed, had ever experienced such a fall from the loftiest heights to the lowest depths. [10]
Eventually, he hid himself away, on the heights of Mount Pilatus, and dwelt alone among the clouds and crags for years; but rest and peace were still denied him, so he finally put an end to his misery by drowning himself. [5]
Thrown back upon himself and denied an airy soaring in the heights of a prosperous fancy, he had come to know himself and his limitations. [4]
There were no higher heights to climb in that boarding house. [5]
From its dizzy heights superb views of the forests, streams, bluffs, hills and dales below and beyond for miles are brought within its focus. [5]
So from the heights of Will Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each widening torrent bends, From the same cradle's side, From the same mother's knee, --One to long darkness and the frozen tide, One to the Peaceful Sea! [6]
As from the heights of Hampstead he looked down on the multitudinous area called London, something throbbed at his heart which seemed like hope; for what he saw was indeed inspiring. [11]
On up the heights filed the strange procession until at last it came to Dalgrothe Mountain. [11]
Presently from the Heights above came the woman's voice again, so piercing that the crowd turned to her. [11]
The next morning he left his camp at Mount Pleasant and marched out and crossed the Ingogo river with 270 men, started up the Ingogo heights, and there fought a battle which lasted from noon till nightfall. [5]
This wonder completed, he led his wife thither; from its top she could look down into the plains below, as from the heights of Rachined, and with this costly gift he presented her. [10]
That was where he knew, without making any decision, he must go, to the haven of the house of his order, on the heights beyond Harlem. [4]
In bygone years he had not seen the chaos, but the illusion of an orderly world, a continual succession of sunrises, 'couleur de rose', from the heights above Bremerton. [9]
The painter would have preferred to walk up meeting-house hill with Cynthia, and from the cool heights look down upon the amphitheatre in which the town was built. [9]
How often he had walked through these charming valleys, climbed these heights, stopped in these villages! [10]
None of the Governors soldiers were in sight, but up the Heights we could hear the steady tramp of General Montcalm's infantry as they came on. [11]
I let six go by and reach the heights, and then I drew myself up. [11]
He shrank instinctively from the humdrum, and sought the heights, stormy though these might prove. [9]
As he turned from the heights, made his way along the cliff and down Mountain Street, his thoughts were still upon the same subject. [11]
Though he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, did not wish to, believe that. [2]
It left Mrs. Frederick Grierson--whose residence on the Heights had hitherto been our "grandest"--breathless with despair. [9]
For the very first day I had crossed the river with Terence, climbed the heights to the old fort, and returned with my drum. [9]
Did Their Pilgrimage end on these autumn heights? [4]
They were again encouraged to the attack; but by this time all the baboons had reascended the heights, excepting a young one, about six months old, who, loudly calling for aid, climbed on a block of rock, and was surrounded. [1]
He was not easily moved, he viewed life from the heights of a philosophy which could separate the petty from the prodigious. [11]
This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries stationed on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
An Afterword: I doubt not we shall come to the heights where there is peace, though we climb thereto by a ladder of swords. [11]
This made her doubly dear, and from the depths of dull despair her soul, ever prone to soar upwards, rose swiftly to the heights of hopeful exaltation. [10]

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