Yet it remains true that Hesiod's distinctive title to a
high place in Greek literature lies in the very fact of his freedom form classic form, and his grave, and yet child-like, outlook upon his world.
This was no more than a whim, however, prompted by pride in such exclusiveness of diet only possible to one in such
high place. In truth, he cared no more for megapode meat than for any other meat.
It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this
high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery.
No remonstrances shook the iron resolution of the man who had hewed his way through the rank and file of political humanity to his own
high place apart from the rest.
The landed property of Hartfield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of Highbury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Woodhouses had long held a
high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr.
I left England to win a
high place in my profession, before I dared to win her .
Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him--a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high--a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a
high place before the eyes of all.
When the Master of Evil took Christ up on a
high place and showed Him all the kingdoms of the earth, he was doing what he thought no other could do.
I had no idea that Miss Morse felt so strongly about it or I should not have presumed, even here and amongst ourselves, to criticise a person who holds such a
high place in her esteem.
Everywhere else it had been ploughed under when the highways were surveyed; this half-mile or so within the pasture fence was all that was left of that old road which used to run like a wild thing across the open prairie, clinging to the
high places and circling and doubling like a rabbit before the hounds.
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from
high places and hastens downwards.
How often (to take another example) have I denounced the mercenary and material spirit of the age--the habitual corruptions and dishonesties of commerce, in
high places and in low!