See 26-Across

Usage examples of higher.

I had discovered that the majority of Wraeththu rarely passed to a higher level than Acantha, which is the first of Ulani.

Come, grant the Trojans victory after victory till the Achaean armies pay my dear son back, building higher the honor he deserves!

In two sweltering weeks, their popularity and confidence never higher, the Federalist majority in Congress passed into law extreme measures that Adams had not asked for or encouraged.

No one will ever know, but it is perfectly possible that as the sun rose higher that cloudless morning, Adams felt contentment of a kind he had not known for years--once he got over the fact that traveling with him on the same stage, as chance would have it, was Theodore Sedgwick.

But, more significantly, AR can be aet off in higher creatures by any kind of stress-psychic stress in particular.

There were six men about on the deck, watching the sail or keeping lookout, rand the steersman on the steerboard side of the aftercastle raised a hand to Thorsten to signal all was well as he and Aylwin climbed the ladder to the higher deck.

I really can hardly conceive a higher enjoyment than a botanical tour among the Alleghany mountains, to any one who had science enough to profit by it.

She could smell a sweet almondlike scent and wondered if it was sap from a plant higher up the terraces.

She was not thoughtful and painstaking for the poor, because, though accustomed to a species of almsgiving, she heard nothing, saw nothing of nearer or higher association with her neighbours.

Poor Aloysia was attracted to the higher and more real glories of the virtuous lives of these holy men.

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms.

The victims who could scream did so, others only burbled through the gashes in their necks or elsewhere, and those yet unassailed were bawling and bleating and trampling each other, trying to swarm higher along the tiers as the Blues hacked their way up one side of the amphitheater and the Greens up the other.

Chittagong are much higher in the scale than the Andamanese, but they are nevertheless savages of a low type.

We have never been of those who advocate the wholesale performance of experiments by students, especially on the higher animals, if they are of such a kind as to require any degree of skill for their performance.

We believe, on the contrary, that many, if not all, of the higher species of animals, especially those nearest to man in structure and intelligence, receive, when subjected to the torment of fire or steel, precisely the same sensations that, under a like infliction, a human being would suffer.