3,228 feet
above the level of the lake--therefore full two-thirds of our journey had been accomplished.
Thus they in Heav'n,
above the starry Sphear, Thir happie hours in joy and hymning spent.
This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a catalogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain
above one third part of that number.
By a pretty maneuver two of the vessels of Helium gained a position
above their adversaries, from which they poured upon them from their keel bomb batteries a perfect torrent of exploding bombs.
In the spring, when the streams are swollen by rain and by the melting of the snows, the lake rises several feet
above its ordinary level during the summer, it gradually subsides again, leaving a sparkling zone of the finest salt upon its shores.
This dispute, much to the credit as well of the illustrious potentate
above mentioned as of the worthy and enlightened directors of the railroad, has been pacifically arranged on the principle of mutual compromise.
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning -- little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird
above his chamber door -- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust
above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird
above his chamber door-- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust
above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
I have three maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose absolute reliability is quite
above suspicion.
The scattered boulders that had fallen from
above and lay upon or partly buried in the turf, were the only indication that any disintegration of the massive, towering pile of rocks ever had taken place.
I have no stomach to narrate the monotonous events of the tedious days that Woola and I spent ferreting our way across the labyrinth of glass, through the dark and devious ways beyond that led beneath the Valley Dor and Golden Cliffs to emerge at last upon the flank of the Otz Mountains just
above the Valley of Lost Souls--that pitiful purgatory peopled by the poor unfortunates who dare not continue their abandoned pilgrimage to Dor, or return to the various lands of the outer world from whence they came.
In one place, five hundred feet
above the sea, the perpendicular bank on the upper side of the road was ten or fifteen feet high, and the cut exposed three veins of oyster shells, just as we have seen quartz veins exposed in the cutting of a road in Nevada or Montana.
So he moderated the flame of his cylinder, and the balloon, in a few moments, had descended to an altitude only three hundred feet
above the soil.
Upon a low-hanging branch sat Tarzan directly
above the majestic, supple body as it forged silently through the thick jungle.
Above him was the throat of the balloon bunched and tied together, but with an open lumen through which,Bert could peer up into a vast, empty, quiet interior, and out of which descended two fine cords of unknown import, one white, one crimson, to pockets below the ring.
