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Sentences starting with higher

Higher things were to be determined here--the weal or woe of her people. [10]
Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd. [2]
Higher wages, material prosperity alone will not suffice to satisfy aspirations for a fuller self-realization, once the method by which these aspirations can be gained is glimpsed. [9]
Higher and higher--hitched his foot over the stump of a limb, and looked up, as much as to say, 'You are my meat, friend. [5]
Higher up the hill, on the very horizon, our guns were visible through the wonderfully clear air, brightly illuminated by slanting morning sunbeams. [2]

Sentences ending with higher

Now here; do you see this narrow belt of fine sediment That was deposited while the water was higher. [5]
The moral law, which has the right to acquit or condemn, always demands restitution, before mortals can "go up higher. [5]
At the top was a plateau, smooth and fine as a parade-ground, where battle could be given, or move be made upon the city and citadel, which lay on ground no higher. [11]
When he came to that point his resentment went higher. [11]
The press grew thicker and thicker in the streets, the excitement grew higher and higher. [5]
But Zorrillo interrupted these declarations, exclaiming, not without dignity, while raising his baton still higher. [10]
In the winter the freights were much higher. [5]
This lava is the accumulation of ages; one torrent of fire after another has rolled down here in old times, and built up the island structure higher and higher. [5]
I know the standard of morality is higher. [4]
You've continued the same policy from the start: with every rise, always holding on for five points higher. [5]

Short sentences using higher

Her voice rose higher. [11]
It introduced the higher education. [4]
I desired no higher commendation. [5]
Higher! [5]

Sentences containing higher two or more times

The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
Imagine yourself there, with that watery doom creeping higher and higher around you. [5]
Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly. [5]
Then, as the voice, in sweet anguish, filled the court-yard, entrancing them all, rose higher and higher, fell and died away, he got to his feet, and called out hoarsely: "Come--come forth! [11]
The moon was up, the stars rose higher and higher, so, simply saying: "Come away," she rose. [10]
It is proposed to reduce the width where excessive by brushwood dykes, at first low, but raised higher and higher as the mud of the river settles under their shelter, and finally slope them back at the angle upon which willows will grow freely. [5]
The crowds continued to come, prices of land rose high, then higher and still higher, everybody was prosperous and happy, the boom swelled into gigantic proportions. [5]
All around us the silent forest threw its encircling arms, spreading up the slopes, higher and higher, to crown the crests with the little pines and hemlocks and balsam fir. [9]
Below the village the road crossed the river by a bridge and, winding down and up, rose higher and higher to the village of Valuevo visible about four miles away, where Napoleon was then stationed. [2]
Some believed that the higher you build your levee, the higher the river's bottom will rise; and that consequently the levee system is a mistake. [5]

More example sentences with the word higher in them

He says: "Sink your own will; let it be subject to a higher, and you need take no thought. [11]
Thank you, my young friend--you have strong arms, and you may lift me a little higher yet. [10]
The stars, as you know, proclaim to you, as to me, that a higher power has joined us as light and warmth are joined. [10]
Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
In our senior year the higher classes competed for the Boylston prizes for English composition. [6]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
Nobody in the world can appreciate it higher than I do. [5]
The farther his work progressed the higher rose his admiration for his model. [10]
He spelled the word Soul with a capital likewise, and certainly no higher recognition could be desired than this! [9]
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
The lowest classes will detain us for a very short time, but the higher animals, especially birds, must be treated at considerable length. [1]
The woman to whom Julius Caesar owned his subjugation might well hold her head higher than the unhappy, vanquished Queen who, save the permission to die--" "Do not part with the letters," said Octavianus kindly. [10]
But even one who loved him could not carry through his incompleted work against the assaults of his enemies, who were powerful, watchful, astute, and merciless; who had a greed which set money higher than all else in the world. [11]
It is they who can inspire by their example, and by their pursuits attract others to a higher conception of the national life. [4]
If the judges who awarded the prize agreed with the verdict of the grammateus, he must accustom himself to value his own work higher, perhaps even above that of Myrtilus. [10]
But every one who admits the principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals, which are the same in kind with those of man, though so different in degree, are capable of advancement. [1]
If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
Orthodox though he were, there had been times when his humour had borne him upward toward higher truths, and he had once remarked that promising to love forever was like promising to become President of the United States. [9]
But if I were the Divinity I should prize them no higher than a hoopoe's crest; for He, who sees into the heart of the giver-alas! [10]
James Grayden's directions were peremptory, but it was a case for the higher law. [6]
Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
The room we were in was at least four feet higher than the other, and we looked down on its occupants. [11]
The higher they went, the deeper grew the snow, the more wearisome the wading and climbing. [10]
This lady," Orpheus went on--he not only played the flute but took the higher parts for a man's voice and could also strike the lyre--"desired us to go to her later at her own house, where she would speak with us. [10]
It is fairly well developed in the two lower divisions of the mammalian series, namely, in the monotremata and marsupials, and in some few of the higher mammals, as in the walrus. [1]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
As the love was, so was the success, no higher, no different, since the one, in some deep way, begot the other. [11]
Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. [2]
We wondered what was the matter, but reckoned it would come out all right, so we went on steering east, but went up on a higher level so we wouldn't hit any steeples or mountains in the dark. [5]
Nobody knew which was the higher office; so Lyman had to settle the matter by making the rank of both officers equal. [5]
Dicky's invariable reply was that we couldn't, and that things weren't moving very much towards a higher civilisation in Egypt. [11]
When Captain Burnaby was on his way to Khiva he would tolerate no Oriental exaggeration of his army rank, although a higher title would have smoothed his way and added to his consideration. [4]
This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
The centre seat was higher and more richly decorated than the others. [10]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
The young widow was a great favorite with the old couple, but higher in their esteem even than she, had been the younger brother of her deceased husband. [10]
It has been vouchsafed to many even in the midst of life to be born again to a higher existence. [10]
But these occasional visitors may have been mere wanderers, which, straying along in the woods by day, and perhaps stalking through the streets of still villages by night, had worked their way along down from the ragged mountain-spurs of higher latitudes. [6]
For even in Virginia I had offers from one higher than yourself--and younger, and a peer also. [11]
The longer hairs vibrate sympathetically with the graver notes, and the shorter hairs with the higher ones. [1]
Moor is great, very great in this department, but I take a very different view of art; it has higher aims. [10]
What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
Thus is the utilitarian spirit eating away the foundations of a higher intellectual life, applying to everything a material measure. [4]
He was bent upon a higher duty. [11]
All the way up we have found wild flowers in the greatest profusion; and the higher we ascend, the more exquisite is their color and the more perfect their form. [4]
A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
Those still higher up pursue the same method until the whole space is occupied. [1]
She was in unusually good spirits, her heart beat higher than it had done for years; she felt uplifted by the sense of relief from a burthensome duty, and of freedom to act independently on the dictates of her own intelligence. [10]
Papias was somewhat uneasy for he was alarmed at the thought that Pollux might now betray how small a share his master had in his last works--which had brought him higher praise than all he had done previously. [10]
The fog lay unbroken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. [2]
Throughout the long twelve hundred miles there was never a page that was void of interest, never one that you could leave unread without loss, never one that you would want to skip, thinking you could find higher enjoyment in some other thing. [5]
Which of us twain, this ruin-starred queen or I, is of higher stature? [11]
We will now turn to the more intellectual emotions and faculties, which are very important, as forming the basis for the development of the higher mental powers. [1]
But in serious truth, we have been drifting about, for several days, using our eyes and our ears more from a sense of duty than any higher and worthier reason. [5]
And isn't marriage truer and higher when man and wife start with difficulties and problems to solve together? [9]
It seems there's trouble in the shops,--in our shops, of all places,--it's been going on for some time, grumbling, dissatisfaction, and they're getting higher wages than ever before--ruinous wages. [9]
From the first trenches on and on to the second trenches higher up! [11]
She has been trained and taught as young persons of higher position in life are brought up, and does not belong in the humble station in which we find her. [6]
Together they sped towards the mine, little groups running beside them, muttering those dark sayings which, either as curses or laments, are painful comments on the relations of life on the lower levels with life on the higher plateaux. [11]
She also glanced toward the richly decorated portal of St. Martin's Church, standing diagonally opposite to the sedan chair, and tried to look up to the steeple, which was higher than almost any other in the world. [10]
You made yourself too cheap at court here people will surely know how to put a higher value upon a man who is equally skilful in Netherland, Italian, and German music. [10]
Are your cushions to your mind, or would you like a higher seat? [10]
Yet from time to time, as he rested, he saw the massive red walls growing higher and wilder, more looming and broken. [13]
When they came to the higher banks covered with dense scrub, Angers paused, and told Marie where they were. [11]
I came again to the castle the next day at noon, and was conducted to the great dining-hall and seated by the side of the governor at a small table which was raised a couple of steps higher than the general table. [5]
Presently they began to taunt him and mock at him, purposely to goad him into a higher and still more entertaining fury. [5]
We stepped in, to see how much higher broken German would raise the price. [5]
This brought him to remember while alone, that he quietly left behind the hospitality of a father's house, and gladly entered the world, with higher hopes than are often realized. [5]
I will undertake to prove by the record here that he made that charge against more and higher dignitaries than the editor of the Washington Union. [7]
Does a license to preach transform a man into a higher order of beings and endow him with a natural quality to govern? [6]
On the ride to Nuremberg he had perceived in Heinz a pious heart and a keen intellect which yearned for higher things. [10]
Macrinus then proceeded to inform the higher and lower officers of the course of action he had agreed upon with the emperor and Zminis. [10]
And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
It is not to give the possessor vegetables or fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy and the higher virtues, hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation and sometimes to alienation. [4]
It seemed advisable to give me a year of higher training, and for that end some public school was thought to offer advantages. [6]
Flower have shewn to exist uniformly in the higher and lower apes. [1]
You know how to do it, and when you confirm its sincerity with a handsome cheque the limit is reached and compliment can no higher go. [5]
His trousers seemed to creep higher up his legs, and he could feel his very ankles blush. [4]
It was hard to believe that that lofty wooded rampart on the left which so overtops the Jungfrau was not actually the higher of the two, but it was not, of course. [5]
The Monument is to be finished, some day, and at that time our Washington will have risen still higher in the nation's veneration, and will be known as the Great-Great-Grandfather of his Country. [5]
Yes, beauty--was entitled to a higher place than truth, and if it again unfolded itself to his gaze, how gladly and gratefully he would pay homage to it with his art! [10]
For the first time she had felt the pleasure of interposing, like a higher power, in the destiny of others. [10]
Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces. [2]
He felt as though some wizard had borne him into a higher and more beautiful world, where he was entirely at home in his magnificent garb, with his perfumed curls and limbs fresh from the bath. [10]
In the Vaterland those who seek for higher and better things--for liberty, and to be rid of oppression --are so called. [9]
But everybody does those things, the practical things, the charities; I mean to do things for the higher life. [4]
This was fame, this was the omnipresence of a god; there could be no higher aspiration for him, who had obtained such honor. [10]
Of course, all this could not remain permanently concealed from the higher authorities. [10]
My object in this chapter is to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. [1]
It has, I think, now been shewn that man and the higher animals, especially the Primates, have some few instincts in common. [1]
But I don't think it was wise or judicious on the part of Mr. Choate to show this higher education he has obtained. [5]
The curriculum in these was that in colleges generally,--the classics, the higher mathematics, science, philosophy, the modern languages, and in some instances a certain technical instruction, which was being tried in some Northern colleges. [4]
If I called these two stories Studies of the Reflex Function in its higher sphere, I should frighten away all but the professors and the learned ladies. [6]
It is by these standards that he knows whether to class the city higher or lower than the other municipalities of the world. [5]
To have invaded these precincts, the muddy, turbulent river of individualism had risen higher than he would have thought possible . [9]
Do not throw these enlightenments aside, but study them, let them raise you to higher planes and make you better. [5]
There's no life there--little to feed a man's higher nature. [5]

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