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  • This was almost certainly the high-water mark of her career.
  • The debacle coincides with what could be the high-water mark for listings. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the period of its composition, he had fallen, perhaps for the first time in his life, sincerely in love with the woman he ultimately married; and it is appropriate to notice here the synchronism of the event with his high-water mark in fiction. Balzac
  • This was the high-water mark of political engagement. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The music industry has had its high-water mark. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The bonanza is likely to be a high-water mark for the industry as recession looms. Times, Sunday Times
  • We pulled the boat up the beach above the high-water mark.
  • Nineteen eighty-two was probably the high-water mark both of the fascination and the frustration with literary theory in this country.
  • The debacle coincides with what could be the high-water mark for listings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The music industry has had its high-water mark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maslin on Audition by Barbara Walters: If any single thing keeps 'Audition' from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's 'Personal History,' the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
  • It was the high-water mark of his ministry. Christianity Today
  • The second area is between Christmas Rock and Gxulu River Mouth extending three nautical miles seawards from the high-water mark.
  • The bonanza is likely to be a high-water mark for the industry as recession looms. Times, Sunday Times
  • We pulled the boat up the beach above the high-water mark.
  • This was the high-water mark of political engagement. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The year 2006 – the last year of GOP control – marked a high-water mark for congressional spending, at $29 billion.
  • Note that I'm taking this as a high-water mark: go further back and you will find a baroque mixture of naff and the unpleasantly unlistenable.
  • Instead he castes Heffernan as the honourable innocent, his ‘wholehearted and unreserved apology… set a political high-water mark’.
  • It was the high-water mark of his ministry. Christianity Today
  • The British retreat to Boston was the high-water mark for American militiamen during the war.
  • Two hundred and twenty-four families in the ward live below the sidewalk, many of them _below high-water mark_. American Woman's Home
  • In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • We now have a more reasonable definition of what the high-water mark is, and what the marine area is on the landward side.
  • This was the high-water mark of political engagement. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We pulled the boat up the beach above the high-water mark.
  • The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • It was the high-water mark of his ministry. Christianity Today
  • The music industry has had its high-water mark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Michele Bachmann was able to reach her high-water mark without being unduly encumbered by her gender; nor was she advantageously buoyed by it. Michele Bachmann and the glass ceiling of American politics | Cheri Jacobus
  • The soils are developed on marine or estuarine alluvium found between the normal high-water mark and the limit of highest spring tides.
  • It is in this sense that what this representation is is not only as to mean high-water mark, but it is saying something about a swimming pool and a brick house and it saying it is within the curtilage of the land.
  • The bonanza is likely to be a high-water mark for the industry as recession looms. Times, Sunday Times
  • We pulled the boat up the beach above the high-water mark.
  • The soils are developed on marine or estuarine alluvium found between the normal high-water mark and the limit of highest spring tides.
  • The Upper East Side Historic District was the high-water mark of preservationism in the age of Ed Koch. City Journal
  • I shall engrave it in _alto-rilievo, _ make the words with pebbles on the turf just above high-water mark. Foul Play
  • The second group, mainly a distempered and impassioned crew that just so happens to include myself, extols 10,000 Hz Legend as the band's true high-water mark.
  • The debacle coincides with what could be the high-water mark for listings. Times, Sunday Times

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