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Example sentences for "high order"

  • His talents, as an orator and statesman, were of a high order, but it appears that he was never able to overcome his natural diffidence.

  • Mr. Hopkins appears to have been a man of high order; and his premature death, in the flower of his age, was a loss to be deplored by Virginia.

  • His capacity and intelligence were of a high order, and were adorned by uniform courtesy and dignity, and singular amenity of manners.

  • The Lion is endowed with keen perceptive faculties, reasoning ability and judgment of a high order, and its mind is surprisingly receptive.

  • The wisdom of birds in the selection of nesting sites, the designing of the best nest for their respective wants, and finally the construction of them, indicate instinct, reasoning power and mechanical skill of a high order.

  • The mother quail that pretends to be wounded and feigns helplessness in order to draw hostile attention unto herself and away from her young, thereby displays courage of a high order.

  • He has demonstrated that he possesses also a high order of intellect by his inventive genius.

  • Capacity to organize, maintain, and direct presupposes a high order of mind.

  • The preaching was of a high order, yet adapted to the needs of the people.

  • Accordingly, his poem is, in several places, dry and heavy; but its beauties are innumerable, and of a high order.

  • Moral qualities of a high order, and vehement passions, and virtuous as vehement, the Spaniards have already displayed; nor is it to be anticipated, that the conduct of their enemies will suffer the heat and glow to remit and languish.

  • The history of literature presents us with many specimens of beautiful letters, and of continued correspondence of a high order.

  • His scientific talent was, we think, of a high order.

  • He was no satirist, and his humor was not of a high order.

  • It is reporter's work, though reporting of a high order.

  • But I do not believe one can rise from reading these volumes without being glad of a knowledge of these two men whose patriotism was of a high order.

  • In these he showed qualities of a military historian of a high order.

  • It is a temple in which more sincere recognition, more genuine esteem, is given to the several excellencies of such folk, than to superiority of mind, even of a high order, which obtains from the great majority only a verbal acknowledgment.

  • But Athens, Corinth and Rome could assuredly boast of good, nay, excellent society, and manners and tone of a high order, without any support from the bogey of knightly honor.

  • The poem shows remarkable imagination and a poetic gift of a high order.

  • Mrs. Dargan's first work was in poetic drama in which she revealed gifts of a high order.

  • He was not therefore an untried man, but had an established reputation for learning in the law, for experience in affairs, for intellectual qualities of a high order.

  • He was endowed with a high order of ability.

  • Tried by these requirements, Mr. Roberts has for a third of a century exhibited a high order of ability, with a constantly enlarging sphere of knowledge, a constantly growing power of logical statement.

  • He had inherited talent and capacity of a high order, was rapidly rising in his profession, and seemed destined to an inviting political career in the party to which he had belonged from its first organization.

  • As a young man, Volta was so completely devoted to scientific investigations that there could be no doubt of the bent of his genius for original work of a high order.

  • He was besides accomplishing good work in comparative anatomy and physiology by original investigations of a high order.

  • He was one of the greatest scientists of a period particularly rich in examples of original scientific genius of a high order.

  • Thompson, and Roebuck have been among its political contributors, and many of its literary articles have been of a high order.

  • In a word, I regard the bees in their cells, the ants in their nests, the spiders in their webs, as workers of keen perceptions and a high order of practical intelligence.

  • And truly there was a certain little black-and-tan terrier, whose principles were by no means of a high order, regaling himself with some cold meat that he had dragged on to the floor.

  • At an early period in the history of this State, attempts were made to establish an institution of learning of a high order.

  • His intellectual powers were of a high order.

  • His reports, both as commissioner and secretary, were of a high order of excellence, and they were highly beneficial in promoting the cause of education in the State.

  • The few sermons which I heard him read, or deliver from the pulpit, were of a high order, distinguished for both accuracy of style and power of thought.

  • The great Carthaginian General, Hannibal, invaded Italy by land in the Second War, and after a campaign marked with a high order of daring and ability, threatened Rome herself after a brilliant victory near Lake Trasimene.

  • The possibility of doing this had long been suspected by physicists reasoning from known phenomena; but the actual accomplishment of the liquefaction of gas was none the less a feat of a high order of brilliancy and usefulness.

  • If so, a considerable amount of inventiveness may have been required, besides a high order of constructiveness.

  • No man in history shows more clearly the co-working of a high order of imagination, and a careful and accurate constructiveness; and no man ever secured more intensely practical and beneficent results.

  • Give a most exalted sense and feeling of the moral and religious, with a high order of practical goodness, and the strongest aspirations for a higher and holier state, both in this life and that which is to come.

  • Properly to spend money, implies a high order of wisdom.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brief period; est une; high blood; high command; high commissioner; high education; high life; high mass; high moral; high northern; high order; high potential; high repute; high society; high standing; high station; high tension; high voltage; higher life; higher temperature; higher temperatures; higher type; higher wages; highly seasoned; him out; slightly less