How To Use High up In A Sentence

Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
From high up in the stand the manager bellowed instructions to the players via the touchline. Times, Sunday Times
During the boat ride, he pointed out the site of a former Maori pa, a fortified settlement hidden in the bush where warriors had hauled their canoes high up the cliffs to protect them from saboteurs.
The six Roman heroes stand high up in the side arches, above the entablature that crowns the actual windows in the wall.
We got caught in it anyway being too high up when it drifted towards us - dense pouring cloud - filling in every clough and gulley between us and the hills over the valley.

From high up in the stand the manager bellowed instructions to the players via the touchline. Times, Sunday Times
It really depends on the range the bird is at how high up I aim. Where to aim on a Turkey?
I was supposed to be in subarctic America, and high up among the buttresses of the Rockies; yet there was that everlasting spread of flowers. The Night-Born
These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed. Confessions of Boyhood
The road train was huge and sat very high up. Times, Sunday Times
From the valley floor the line “could be traced along the mountain sides, following all the angles and sinuosities of the ridges for many miles—always preserving its horizontality—sometimes being high up above the plain, and again intersecting long and high slopes of gravel and sand; on such places a beach-line could be read.” Colossus
Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward. HIGH STAND
Their reward was a seat in the top tier of this towering stadium, so high up that they needed binoculars, but what the hell. Times, Sunday Times
Buskins are presumed by Strutt to have resembled "the shoes of the carpenter's wife in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," which the poet says 'were laced high upon her legs'.
Kostas wore his special protective clothing and took out a big sack and a smoke-box filled with pine needles. A high ladder had to be kept in the air in order not to frighten the bees, which were sitting high up in the tree, one on top of the other, creating a big revolving buzzing bee-ball.
Doug: What happens if you belly flop from that high up?
It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
For instance, some black women may be unable to afford the most effective birth control methods, such as the IUD, which is highly effective over the long-term but has high up-front costs. Sharon L. Camp: Black History Month: Addressing Health Disparities
This type of goat lives high up in the mountains.
There I spent some comfortable days, sleeping much, having myself read to, mostly from the private letters of the Emperors, and from the Anticatones of the Divine Julius; and, from the balcony of the ante-room enjoying the splendid view southwestwards, over the Circus Maximus, the lower reaches of the Tiber and the Campagna, for my apartment was on that side of the Palace and high up. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
One of the bayadères rose with a lithe and supple movement of the body not comparable to anything save the slow separating of a white scud from the main cloud which one sees on a summer's day high up in the cirrus regions.
Flounder can even be found many miles from the sea, high up in rivers where the water is completely fresh.
High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
The two trees with the smoky trunks were blighted high up, and the withered branches domineered above the leaves, Through the whole building white had turned yellow, yellow nearly black; and since the time when the poor lady died, it had slowly become a dark gap in the long monotonous street. Dombey and Son
Placed too high up on a sailboat's mast, the radar might miss seeing a nearby target on the windward side when a boat is heeled over.
Her blond ringlets were piled high up on her head, and winking atop her hairdo was a rhinestone tiara. A Dollar Short
McManus also raised eyebrows with a number of administrative shuffles that promoted some cops and transferred others who had been high up in his predecessor's administration.
More like President Kruger than Prince Albert – that's the best I can do for him; and I see him on a chair, in a black frock-coat, not so very high up either; I can manage a cloud or two for him to sit on; and then his hand trailing in the clouds holds a rod, a truncheon is it? Monday or Tuesday
The ramp and docking umbilicals that would be available at a habitat weren't there and the hatch opened onto the port side of the hull, high up, so it was a long way down.
From high up in the stand the manager bellowed instructions to the players via the touchline. Times, Sunday Times
One puzzle was how the bacteria could survive the intense ultraviolet rays of the sunshine so high up in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
High up on the hills he found another beautiful little bird which he called the "white-booted racket-tail. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
The ball looped high up in the air.
Consider fixing up some bat boxes too, high up on a wall, near the eaves of the house or in a tall tree.
Then, even as it was falling towards the far shore, he shinned as high up its length as possible.
The gut-appendages or caeca in birds, as has been observed, are few in number, and are not situated high up, as in fishes, but low down towards the extremity of the gut. The History of Animals
Lastly, due north, high up, the absurd Giraffe (_Camelopardus_) stands proudly on his ridiculous head. Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
They are domed nests with a little spout like a handle high up at the side, through which the birds come and go. Times, Sunday Times
One of the routes mentioned has quite an exposed move round an arete high up which wouldn't suit every beginner.
The gasteropodous shells are of but little real assistance, although the Ancillaria belongs to a type as yet only known by one or two species high up in the Cretaceous; the oldest members of the family being in that horizon. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The anticipation is building inside me like a helium balloon, ready to burst from all the pressure high up in the atmosphere.
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile.
Our room was high up in a turret with windows looking out across the rolling vineyards of Beaujolais. Times, Sunday Times
Day one is an uphill climb through beech forest, day two across the tussock high up, day three downhill through podocarps to the Heaphy River, and day four along the gorgeous West Coast beach with nikau palms alongside.
Your fundus, which is the top of the uterus, will be high up in your abdomen, and this can lead to heartburn, inability to eat large meals, and shortness of breath. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
His chief fear had been that the rope-length would give out while he was still high up, but there was still a good bight in Frodo’s hands, when Sam came to the bottom and called up: ‘I’m down!’ The Lord of the Rings
In the drizzling rain the gargoyles which jut out high up on the pillars vomit water down onto our heads.
As we were quite high up from the water we used a landing net with a twelve foot long telescopic handle so that we could safely net any fish that we caught.
And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle.
That was all handled by people high up who were doing this stuff. Times, Sunday Times
A section of boxes climbs from the stage, then rows of benches rise high up the slope of the fan-shaped amphitheater.
So I was led down blind alleys beneath high upturned eaves, through circular gateways and past piles of drying chillies.
Suzanne obeyed her wondering, whereon Sihamba placed the noose about her own neck, then bade Suzanne stand upon the bed and thrust the end of the riem loosely into the thatch of the hut as high up as she could reach, so that it looked as though it were made fast there. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
With his associated doc - trines of the total perversion of man and the incom - prehensible majesty of God, he banned, and had to ban, all ideas of a possible accommodation of God's com - mands to the needs of man: man was simply too low and mean, too near to zero in value and importance to deserve consideration, while God was too high up and too far away to concede it. CASUISTRY
I can not locate the bird, but I have the impression it is flying continuously high up in the sky.
High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest.
he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians
They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up.
It was very high up on a ledge and Andrew packed his dacks, waiting 50 metres back while the rest had a look. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images Despite the risk and warnings from officials, thousands of people who had been evacuated from the danger zone rushed back Sunday morning, piling into trucks, cars and on the backs of motorcycles to check on their livestock high up on the scorched slopes. Mount Merapi Spews More Ash
But from high up in the Huachuca Mountains, the desert valley below just looks like land, not like two different national homelands.
There, high upon her golden throne, draped in her blazoned 'kaf' or robe of state, sat the fair Nyleptha, and when Sir Henry came in a little late, dressed in the full uniform of an officer of her guard and humbly bent himself before her, she merely acknowledged his salute with a careless nod and turned her head coldly aside. Allan Quatermain
he lives high up the river
The main sign of an aortic aneurysm is a lump in the abdomen, high up and a little to the right, that pulses obviously with the heartbeat.
There she saw a bit of a lookout post in the forest… high up.
The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand. Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
I wasn't convinced, and something kept urging me towards a small box that was sitting high up on top of a pile of boxes against the wall.
It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
What Canadians need to know, pronto, is how many were implicated, who they were, and how high up the complicity went. Archive 2009-09-01
She's high up in the management hierarchy.
Consider fixing up some bat boxes too, high up on a wall, near the eaves of the house or in a tall tree.
I was close enough that the oversized screen nearly filled my peripheral vision, but high up enough that there was no need to crick my neck.
Because the car lacked a fuel pump, the fuel tank was placed high up in the engine compartment so that fuel could be fed to the carburettor by gravity; a trade-off of this design is an increased fire risk in front-end accidents. Car beauty is in the eye of the beholder
He had built the railed, shingled-roofed little nest high up in the tree's crotched heart where Ruth kept some of her extra-special notes and jewelry and a book of poems. Archive 2009-03-01
Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles.
He is very high up in the lodge, past Worshipful master.
They are domed nests with a little spout like a handle high up at the side, through which the birds come and go. Times, Sunday Times
More such problems can be expected in the future, but e-crime is not high up the political agenda, according to White.
The moon high up the night I hope my love to you can follow you to faraway places.
Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures.
An interesting feature of the church is the array of gilded heads high up on the walls of the nave.
He wuz as outspoken as a norwester _he_ wuz, but I tole him I hoped the fall wuz from so high up thet a feller could ketch The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
At Highgrove, he careened around the grounds on his bicycle or a skateboard, climbed so high up in trees that he had to be rescued by the local fire department, and totaled his miniature Jaguar XJS cabriolet—a birthday present from the manufacturer. William and Kate
As they walked further inside the park, they saw some witches flying around with broomsticks and wizards chasing them high up in the sky.
Likewise, when Hull gained the ball, theysuffered by only having one forward target and also had to contend withan organised Arsenal back line holding high upfield.
And to the van of them, high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion, the Wolf of Kabul.
I got as high up in the eddy as I could, so I would have enough speed to clear the hole.
The moon high up the night I hope my love to you can follow you to faraway places.
Our course at first lies along the highway under great chestnut-trees whose nuts are just dropping, then through an orchard and across a little creek, thence gently rising through a long series of cultivated fields toward some high uplying land behind which rises a rugged wooded ridge or mountain, the most sightly point in all this section. An Idyl of the Honey-bee
The castle is magnificently sited high up on a cliff.
High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck.
There was a window the shape of a fan over it, too high up though, and a window on each side of it, but they were all crudded up with colored glass. Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Placed too high up on a sailboat's mast, the radar might miss seeing a nearby target on the windward side when a boat is heeled over.
For me, the great surprise was that the name Snoopy the dog made famous by Charles Schulz’s popular comic strip “Peanuts” was not very high up in the list. How to Speak Dog
He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
The front was illuminated, and high up on the roof crouched the dormer windows of the sixth-floor rooms. COVER STORY
His cousin is somebody quite high up in the navy.
And to the van of them, high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion, the Wolf of Kabul.
The iron rimmed wheels of the stagecoach threw a plume of fine dust high up in the air, and the boxy, badly sprung vehicle jounced and bounced on the rutted, hard packed earth that made up the last mile of the road.
He stood high up in the cab, partly obscured by the canopy, beaming proudly behind the steering wheel. TICKLED PINK
We sat high up in the covered stand, towards the City End.
They are primarily nocturnal, live only in forests with a dense canopy, and often rest during the day high up in trees.
Sector: a) Prices at 25 cents/pound are ruling at 28 year high up by more than 80% this year but lower than their all time high of 66 cents/pounds. b) Sugar is only commodity which is a combination of 3 in 1 industry, namely FMCG, Power and Chemical. Moneycontrol Top Headlines
One of the abbey's most famous features is the 14th century Washington Window, which is to be found high up in the choir area near the high altar.
It well deserves its name ossifrage, bone breaker, for "not only does he push kids and lambs and even men off the rocks, but he takes the bones of animals that other birds of prey have denuded of the flesh high up into the air and lets them fall upon a stone in order to crack them and render them more digestible even for his enormous powers of deglutition. Smith's Bible Dictionary
The sap flows from an incision made high up in the tree into a vessel hung there to receive it, and soon hardens into the substance called camphor, but the tree itself withers up and dies when it has been so treated. Still Separate & Unequal
Continuing on, we saw a huge dump of fresh red clay reaching high up the hill like a tremendous anthill.
We are nowhere near the river, let alone becks, and are very high up compared to the village which is flooded at present.
And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town.
From the boxes to the benches high up the slope, the focus shifts from dinner to music as the concert begins.
Invisible larks poured trills over the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble, the peewit wept over the hollows and marshes still filled with brown water; high up the cranes and geese flew with their spring honking. Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
The pastor's house lay so high up on the "fjeld" that corn would not grow on its meadows, where the relentless northern winter seemed to begin so early and end so late. Three Comedies
The lagoon was a shelter from the weather as the ships could be beached high up on the land at high tide.
We hiked every day high up in the mountains, slept in posadas for US $10 a night, breakfast included.
The moon high up the night I hope my love to you can follow you to faraway places.
The design's extraordinary appeal lies in the side straps, fashioned of soft ribbing and positioned high up on the hip.
Already an aasvogel was hovering above; a mere speck, the great bird poised upon widespread wings, high up in the illimitable blue. The Dop Doctor
We can hear, high up, the flustering feral pigeons that haunt the space under the roof. The Other Side of Dark
On the other hand, metal roofing does tend to have a relatively high up-front cost.
Richard Rice was in an office tucked away high up in the dress circle and had left Charlie to organize things.
If you google "Sheep Mountain CO2 strip bark" you will hit the motherwave of denialist froth centered on the dendrology of very old trees high up in the Sierra sampled by Graybill. Archive 2008-03-01
As they walked further inside the park, they saw some witches flying around with broomsticks and wizards chasing them high up the sky.
Rich, that is to say independent; unmarried, that is to say unattached; free to come and go, he stood high up in that great army of the czar's, which I call the uncredited diplomatic corps, because the phrase "secret service" always puts into my mind a picture of the wild-eyed, bearded anarchist, whom I most heartily detest. Man on the Box
The action is visible through wide gaps in the wall from waist high up, as if we were staring at them through two-way mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
I am trying to separate living and working and I found this room high up in a parsonage, in an administrative building attached to a church.
People whose lives, and those of their parents before them, have been spent in dingy tenements, and whose only garden is a rickety soap-box high up on a fire-escape, share this love, which must have a plant to tend, with those whose gardens cover acres and whose plants have been gathered from all the countries of the world. A Woman's Hardy Garden
This type of goat lives high up in the mountains.
They'd love to have a repug-fellator like Emmanuel that high up in the WH. Election Central Morning Roundup
Sinai hills clouded over: cirri strata high up; nimbi in fragments below. The Land of Midian
The moon high up the night I hope my love to you can follow you to faraway places.
But as last I was brought before some old josser who was high up in the force, and who seemed to have no end of a head on his shoulders. The Man Who Was Thursday
If I had to list my personal attributes, ‘common sense’ would be very high up my list.
The problem with sailing in strong winds with light crews, is that we're both so high up above the boom, we can't see much to leeward, as the sails block our view.
All of the larger lakes in Gran Canaria are situated high up in the mountains.
One day in the Zoological Gardens, the Formosan deer (Cervus pseudaxis) approached me in a curious attitude, with his muzzle raised high up, so that the horns were pressed back on his neck; the head being held rather obliquely. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
High up between encroaching walls of rock a single star shone. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
SUSPENDED, after a swoop from Professional standards d***heads, sorry department. this chief inspector is reasonably high up in the disposal and management of offenders, and shes allowed to remain at work, despite the arrest and allegation being that of a dishinesty offence????? yep, the world has gone mad and im reminded of it everyday … … … on December 2, 2009 at 10: 43 am Olivers Army The Stereotyped World of WIN. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Was the pain high up or low down? What Katy Did
Magic is a running thread throughout, from storytellers in travelling canoes and a door that leads to strange adventures, to a Snow Man and a massive zoetrope and the Ladies Of The Light, dancing high up in the trees. This week's new events
Passing the hulk of a man - even now Charlie couldn't quite see his face, it was too high up and obscured in the dim lights - the boy went up the stairs and back into the main area of the rest stop building.
Robert, who gave the lands for ever, "as high up as heaven, and as low down as hell," to the individual named in the grant, which was witnessed "by Meg, my wife, and Marjory, my nourice."' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852
A gray gull carries some sea creature high up over the beach, drops it from its beak.
Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view.
The ceiling was high up from reach; oil drums and metallic cases were situated at nice positions, perfect for hiding.
These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
There was a kite high up in the sky.
For example, if your gastrocnemius muscles are bunched high up on your lower legs, do more seated calf raises, which target your soleus, a muscle that travels the length of your calves.
We are using radio wave signals, so we need to be high up to have a clear view - radio waves lose about 60 per cent of their power when they hit a wall.
Was the pain high up or low down? What Katy Did
It was mounted on the box seats very high up, where it looked conspicuously happy, and sounded a little hysterical; and it was packed, tight and warm and anticipant into every available seat. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
That was all handled by people high up who were doing this stuff. Times, Sunday Times
M.ntmartre -- rooms high up on the fifth floor -- where, between two pictures, supposed to be by Angelica Kaufmann, M. Duval had written unactable plays for the last twenty years, and where he would continue to write unactable plays until God called him to a world, perhaps, of eternal cantatas, but where, by all accounts, _l'exposition de la pièce selon la formule de M. Scribe_ is still unknown. Confessions of a Young Man
Excision, either of articular bones or of pieces of bones, when not high up in the body, but about the foot or the hand, is generally followed by recovery, unless the patient die at once from deliquium animi. Instruments Of Reduction
It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.
High up, silver-winged gulls curved and dipped and called their creaking signals. Angel Island
The existence of forsterite in a star like HOPS-68 is not entirely without precedent; the crystals have been found in the vicinity of young stars before, but never so high up - and never behaving like rain before. TIME.com: Top Stories
Salamandra atra, which lives high up among the mountains, brings forth its young full-formed. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
Hopefully the place will be empty and they have a multidirectional hand drier that's not too high up on the wall, so you can dry it off.
Because we are high up, we have uninterrupted views of the countryside. Times, Sunday Times
He spun it around with his tongue as she threw the saddle high up on his withers, pulling it back so none of his hairs were in the wrong direction.
But surveys show that the environmental benefits of riverscapes are high up on people's list of priorities, with flood defences, understandably, of particular concern.
His boot were high up to his knees and his cloak hung disarrayed behind him.
Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows. The Witch of Prague
We had turned our backs upon the volcano of Orizava; on our right the black summits of the Cordillera stood out against the red sky; the _urubu_ vultures were whirling round and round high up above us -- the only living creatures we had set eyes on since the evening before. Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
The hotel owns a small chalet high up the side of an adjacent mountain. Times, Sunday Times
Then the glen turns and widens, and Castel d'Andraz – a shattered, blank-eyed ruin perched high upon a pedestal of crag – comes suddenly into sight. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
They are domed nests with a little spout like a handle high up at the side, through which the birds come and go. Times, Sunday Times
He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Because PCBs bioaccumulate, they are found in large quantities in animals high up the food chain, especially those with lots of body fat.
When you are high up on either wall you can catch the plan of all this, but to avoid a confused description and to help you to follow the marvellous, Hannibalian and never-before-attempted charge and march which I made, and which, alas! ended only in a glorious defeat -- to help you to picture faintly to yourselves the mirific and horripilant adventure whereby I nearly achieved superhuman success in spite of all the powers of the air, I append a little map which is rough but clear and plain, and which I beg you to study closely, for it will make it easy for you to understand what next happened in my pilgrimage. The Path to Rome
A gray gull carries some sea creature high up over the beach, drops it from its beak.
His cousin is somebody quite high up in the navy.
High up in their canopies flyers leapt from branch to branch, chittering and squeaking at the intruders below.
He would stare dumfounded at the erudite personage at the head of the class; Leander's bare feet were always carefully adjusted to a crack between the puncheons of the floor, literally "toeing the mark"; his broad trousers, frayed out liberally at the hem, revealed his skinny and scarred little ankles, for his out-door adventures were not without a record upon the more impressionable portions of his anatomy; his waistband was drawn high up under his shoulder-blades and his ribs, and girt over the shoulders of his unbleached cotton shirt by braces, which all his learning did not prevent him from calling "galluses"; his cut, scratched, calloused hands were held stiffly down at the side seams in his nether garments in strict accordance with the regulations. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
In primates the larynx is located high up in the windpipe and prevents solids and liquids from entering the lungs.
'stoep', under the trees in his garden, or high up on the mountain side, where he had his favourite nooks. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
She was so high up now that she didn't dare look down.
I looked away immediately, through the window high up in the corner. THE EXECUTION
The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree.
And then high up in the firmamental darkness we heard the clamant cries of some great, passing birds. Sixes and Sevens
Now the foretop is a place high up in the rigging of the ship, a very giddy height indeed, and when a man is there he is really almost out of sight and it is impossible to see what he is doing from the deck. Susan A Story for Children
He set his teeth with the pain as they pulled him up: there was a wound festering high up on his right arm, on the inner side. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
A rendering of a sundeck high up on "World One", a residential tower to be built by Lodha Developers in Mumbai. Indian Homebuyers Struggle with Bubble
High up under the sloping roof, exercise rooms are located in a glass enclosed attic that overlooks the main hall.
Here and there, towers were perched high up on acclivities which seemed almost inaccessible.
She's high up in the management hierarchy.
The lawyers were alerted by a journalist who said that Operation Torison was part of a major British intelligence gathering exercise involving a mole high up within the republican movement.
High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat -- a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2. Chapter 29
But earlier he sounds effortful and strained, especially high up. Times, Sunday Times
We were so high up we were level with the clouds.
Even last October I thought nothing of travelling, illegally and in disguise, high up into the Khyber Pass.
The window was much too high up for her to reach, but unlike the one in the bathroom, it was large enough for her to squeeze through.
Golf stands accused of being a bewildering sport and the latest witness for the prosecution is Andrew Coltart, who last year commentated on the Open Championship and today found himself high up its leaderboard. The Open 2010: Rejuvenated Andrew Coltart is talk of the course again
They rose high up its sides before dragging back, to leave the oarweed limp and glistening in the sun. THE MAIN CAGES
The glossy grass rolled in gentle waves mimicking an ocean they would never see even perched so high up upon the rounded hill.
To avoid these the ligature should be applied as low down on the vessel as possible, and, in point of fact, the operation called ligature of the third stage of the axillary is, anatomically speaking, really ligature of the brachial high up, and where there is room at all, there will be the less chance of secondary hæmorrhage, the greater the distance is between the ligature and the great subscapular branch. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
What he was looking for was high up in one corner, just below the cornicing: a laser-activated motion sensor. It's October, 1956.

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