Use level in a sentence
Sentences ending with level
- Well, then, are you willing to try it out, on the level? [9]
- Wherein the wanderers were right, and the heads of the same were level. [5]
- At night there were great stories of achievement told by the cavernous fireplace; great latitude was permitted in the estimation of the size of particular drifts, but never any agreement was reached as to the "depth on a level. [4]
- 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]
- You have seemed to concede that you place Man and the rat on A level. [5]
- And now, in the Essay we have just been looking at, I find that "his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. [6]
- All at once the circle had vanished, and the two men were standing not five paces apart with their rifles clutched across their bodies, each watching, catlike, for the other to level. [9]
- Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars that divide the beautiful landscape like the squares of a checker-board are set with line and plummet, and their uniform height determined with a spirit level. [5]
- By morning the snow is drifted in banks, and two feet deep on a level. [4]
- The Nile begins slowly to rise early in June; between the 15th and 20th of July it suddenly swells rapidly, and in the first half of October, not, as was formerly supposed, at the end of September, the inundation reaches its highest level. [10]
Short sentences using level
- She is level with them. [4]
- We start level there. [9]
Sentences containing level two or more times
- They always find their level, no matter what's done for them, and Marchand's level is the ditch. [11]
- Below, was the broad, level plain of Esdraelon, checkered with fields like a chess-board, and full as smooth and level, seemingly; dotted about its borders with white, compact villages, and faintly penciled, far and near, with the curving lines of roads and trails. [5]
More example sentences with the word level in them
- At first the young man was awed by the presence of the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up to the classic level of the old meteorologist's speech. [11]
- How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
- Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
- When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
- It was level with the ground, a crumpled heap of ruins. [11]
- In a region with scarcely any level land or intervale, farmers are at a disadvantage. [4]
- It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
- I do not wish to see any more places like Esdraelon, where the ground is level and people can gallop. [5]
- For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
- Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered. [11]
- It was "Save who can": they were all on a dead level of misfortune. [11]
- I think that when you are down on its level it seldom inflames you with an ecstasy which you could not get out of a sand-flat. [5]
- We were then well down under the precipice, but still considerably above the level of the river. [5]
- What line have we written that was on a level with our conceptions? [6]
- Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
- 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]
- Presently a match was struck, and Elise came forward with a candle raised level with her dusky head. [11]
- Their entire being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in this life. [5]
- The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
- When I got up stairs I looked out at the window and see Tom doing his level best with the lightning-rod, but he couldn't come it, his hands was so sore. [5]
- We stirred them up and redisposed them in such a way as to make our bed as level as possible. [5]
- His head just topped the level of sage-brush, and the burro could not have been seen at all. [13]
- I have helped to wear these stairs into hollows,--stairs which I trod when they were smooth and level, fresh from the plane. [6]
- From this level to that of Unitarianism the outlet is freer, and the subsidence more rapid. [6]
- I am going to purge myself of the last vestiges of artificiality and pretence, and then start fair on your own honest level and be worthy mate to you thenceforth. [5]
- The Indians used to hold their "powwows," or magical incantations, upon a broad mound which rose out of the common level, and where some old hemlocks and beeches formed a dark grove, which served them as a temple for their demon-worship. [6]
- We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I'd never struck a comet before that could lay over me, and so I was bound to beat this one or break something. [5]
- For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist. [5]
- We were four thousand feet above the level of the sea. [11]
- Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
- Ahead of me there might have been a floor or a precipice, as the ground looks level at night. [9]
- Their breeding brings them to the average level, carries them more nearly to the heart, makes them a simpler expression of our common humanity. [6]
- Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
- He can reduce the valleys and the show "freaks" of nature to his own moral level, but the vast bulks and the summits remain for the most part haughty and pure. [4]
- And back of the town, far around and abroad over the miles of level campagna, were scattered rows, and circles, and clusters of lights, all glowing like so many gems, and marking where a score of villages were sleeping. [5]
- I saw crossing the street a middle-aged woman,--a decent body, who looked as if she might have come from the lower level of some not opulent but respectable household. [6]
- My notion about the stage is, that it keeps along pretty evenly with the rest of the world; the stage is usually quite up to the level of the audience. [4]
- So far as the Saturnians can be said to have any pride in anything, it is in the absolute level which characterizes their political and social order. [6]
- I have stood the other infamies and insanities and that is enough; I am not going to have man and the other animals put on the same level morally. [5]
- They said that the Neckar road was perfectly level, so we must be going to Switzerland or some other rugged country; and asked us if we did not find the walking pretty fatiguing in such warm weather. [5]
- With what majesty the monarch held his lonely state above the level sea! [5]
- That part of the line was not entrenched and in front of it the ground was more open and level than elsewhere. [2]
- It lay in the level plain right under our feet--all spread abroad like a picture--and we looked down upon it as we might have looked from a balloon. [5]
- You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
- If, for instance, the landlord's wife at Burnsville had traveled with her husband, her table would probably have been more on a level with his knowledge of the world, and it would have contained something that the wayfaring man, though a Northerner, could eat. [4]
- He had asked the landlady the altitude of her place above the level of the lake, and she told him fourteen hundred and ninety-five feet. [5]
- His birthplace was the hill town of Plainfield, over two thousand feet above the level of the sea. [4]
- He objected that the first two miles was a dead level, with plenty of room, and that the rope was never used except in very dangerous places. [5]
- As far as the eye could reach, in the moonlight, there was no desert visible, but only a level waste of shining water. [5]
- In five minutes the boat was level full, and we was setting on the lockers buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and could hardly breathe. [5]
- Like a flash the blue barrel of his rifle gleamed level and he shot once--twice. [13]
- Thus the picture that raised Caracalla to the level of an Achilles made Melissa shrug her shoulders over the man she dreaded; and while she even doubted Caesar's musical capacities, Diodoros's young, fresh, bell-like voice rose doubly beautiful and true upon her memory's ear. [10]
- I tell you, that if, instead of raw Boston sailors, ploughmen and merchant captains, and fishing craft and trading vessels, I had three English war-ships and one thousand men, I would level your town from the citadel to the altar of St. Joseph's. [11]
- It is true that a democracy is intolerant of variations from the general level, and that a new society allows less latitude in eccentricities to its members than an old society. [4]
- The enemy had tacked and was standing west, with ensign and jack and pennant flying, the level light washing his sails to the whiteness of paper. [9]
- But those who surrendered, while remaining in the same pitiful plight, would be on a lower level to claim a share in the necessities of life. [2]
- At their foot stretched rows of olive, citron and plane-trees, plantations of mulberries and vines; at a higher level grew firs, cypresses and nut-tree copses. [10]
- There was a stretch of level valley with silent farm houses, the occupants all at rest, without trouble, without anxiety. [5]
- In both you stand on middle ground, and hold the ship level and steady. [7]
- It was a sort of breath-taking surprise; for we had not supposed there was anything behind that low-hung blanket of sable cloud but level valley. [5]
- Stored within her, sometimes rising to the level of consciousness, was that experience at Silliston in the May weather when she had had a glimpse--just a glimpse! [9]
- This was the snuggest little croquet-ground imaginable; it was perfectly level, and not more than a mile long by half a mile wide. [5]
- There was no snow where we were, consequently it was proven that the eternal snow-line ceases somewhere above the ten-thousand-foot level and does not begin any more. [5]
- He'd yank a sinner outen (Hades),** And land him with the blest; Then snatch a prayer'n waltz in again, And do his level best. [5]
- He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, And lie and steal--all one to him-- He done his level best. [5]
- Patches of red showed clear against the purple of sage, and farther out on the level dotted strings of red led away to the wall of rock. [13]
- It was almost sheer; its top was flat and level. [11]
- At last, however, she gave the final turn to the handle, and every screw was in its place, its top level and smooth with the iron of the cross. [11]
- Only in our self-confident day of the popularization of knowledge--thanks to that most powerful engine of ignorance, the diffusion of printed matter--has the question of the freedom of will been put on a level on which the question itself cannot exist. [2]
- We got front seats, and while the train moved along about fifty yards on level ground, I was not the least frightened; but now it started abruptly downstairs, and I caught my breath. [5]
- It is so searching and so effective that it keeps the general level of Russian intellect and education down to that of the Czar. [5]
- But presently this sea upon dry ground was to lose its "rolling" character and stretch away for seven hundred miles as level as a floor! [5]
- And beyond that river rises beautiful Farewell Mountain of many colors, now sapphire, now amethyst, its crest rimmed about at evening with saffron flame; and, beyond Farewell, the emerald billows of the western peaks catching the level light. [9]
- If I remember rightly, we passed high above wagon roads or through tunnels under them, but never crossed them on their own level. [5]
- He raised the revolver again, till it was level with Shon's forehead, till it was even with his hair! [11]
- If he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off-and-on-the same-- He done his level best. [5]
- Emerging from the recessed vestibule on a level with the street were the Watling twins, aglow with health, dressed in identical costumes of blue. [9]
- The stories they read, if they read at all--the novels, so called, that they have been brought up on--are the diluted and feeble fictions that flood the country, and that scarcely rise above the intellectual level of Jimmy and the absorbed pig. [4]
- High above the ravine where the spring was lay a level plateau of moderate extent, and behind it rose a fissured cliff of bare, red-brown porphyry. [10]
- Jean Jacques had raised the cage on a level with his face, and was evidently speaking to the bird in the way birds love--that soft kissing sound to which they reply with song. [11]
- Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through the level fields, for no water was visible. [6]
- There are viceroys, princes, governors, sub-governors, sub-sub-governors, and a hundred orders of nobility, grading along down from grand-ducal archangels, stage by stage, till the general level is struck, where there ain't any titles. [5]
- If he was preachin' on his beat, He'd tramp from east to west, And north to south-in cold and heat He done his level best. [5]
- From this airy porch among the shining groves we look down upon Heidelberg Castle, and upon the swift Neckar, and the town, and out over the wide green level of the Rhine valley--a marvelous prospect. [5]
- Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
- A vast level plain stretched before them, watered by a sinuous stream; and beyond there towered up against the sky along and lofty barrier of some kind, they did not know what. [5]
- Ireland is no place for a sane and level man to fight for honour, fame, and name. [11]
- After leaving the picturesque highlands about Lewiston, the country is flat, and although the view over the lovely sheet of blue water is always pleasing, there is something bleak even in summer in this vast level expanse from which the timber has been cut away. [4]
- The plain is perfectly level, and seems to stretch away and away and away, dimming and softening, to the uttermost bounds of nowhere. [5]
- The fourth day passed, and we left behind us the patches of forest and came into the open prairie,--as far as the eye could reach a long, level sea of waving green. [9]
- It was an overhanging rock which made a kind of canopy over a sweet spring, where, in the days when their labours sounded through the valley, the flaxbeaters from the level below came to eat their meals and to rest. [11]
- It often runs over ragged rocks with a smooth surface, and is vexed with ripples as it slides over sands that are level as a floor. [6]
- A few miles out from Invercargill, passed through vast level green expanses snowed over with sheep. [5]
- I think, for one, that they are very much above the level of the ordinary gossip of the country. [4]
- He had sunk one part of himself far below the level of activity or sensation, while new resolves, new powers of mind, new designs were set in motion to make his career a real and striking success. [11]
- The explanation is on the surface, and need not be sought in the fact of a difference of social and political level in the two countries at the start, nor even in the further fact that the colonies were already accustomed to self-government. [4]
- We were sitting on the porch of the farmhouse, on the summit of the hill, and "Aunt Rachel" was sitting respectfully below our level, on the steps-for she was our Servant, and colored. [5]
- You never was on the Panama level, of course? [11]
- They take it on the level. [9]
- The colors, meantime, on the level water, never were on painter's palette, and never were counterfeited by the changeable silks of eastern looms; and this gorgeous spectacle continued till the stars came out, crowding the sky with silver points. [4]
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