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And as a forum without a permanent secretariat, it is agile enough to bring the international community together quickly, as it did in November 2008, at the
height
of the financial crisis.
Of medium height, thick-set and with a loose gait, Mikhaylov in his brown hat, olive-green overcoat and narrow trousers (at a time when wide ones had long since come into fashion), and especially his commonplace broad face, expressing a combination of timidity and a desire to be dignified, created an unpleasant impression.
While correcting the foot he kept glancing at the figure of John in the background, which the visitors had not even remarked, but which he knew to be the
height
of perfection.
I am not doing it of myself...''I cannot help thanking you.''But, my dear friend, do not give way to that feeling you were speaking about – of being ashamed of that which is the utmost
height
of Christianity!
But it was absolutely necessary for Karenin to think thus; it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least this imaginary exaltation, from the
height
of which he, the despised of all, was able to despise others, that he clung to this mock salvation as if it were the real thing.
CHAPTER XXVI'WELL, KAPITONICH?'SAID SEREZHA, as on the day before his birthday he returned rosy and bright from a walk, and gave his overcoat to the tall old hall-porter, who looked smilingly down from his
height
at the little fellow.
To be the wife of a man like Koznyshev after her difficult life with Madame Stahl seemed to her the
height
of bliss.
Having come close up to her he looked beyond, and from his
height
saw with his eyes what she had found with her nose.
Again, as on the previous occasion, he suddenly, without the least interval, felt thrown from the
height
of happiness, peace, and dignity into an abyss of despair, malevolence, and degradation.
But it's the
height
of absurdity.]
Anna had come out from behind the screen to meet him, and Levin saw in the dim light of the study the woman of the portrait, in a dark dress of different shades of blue, not in the same attitude, not with the same expression, but on the same
height
of beauty as that on which the artist had caught her in the portrait.
He felt as if he were on some unattainable height, from which he painstakingly descended in order not to hurt the feelings of those with whom he was conversing.
The handsome old man, with a black beard turning grey in places and thick silvery hair, stood motionless with a bowl of honey in his hand, gazing kindly and calmly down from his
height
at the gentlefolk, clearly neither understanding them nor wishing to understand.
And he had still to climb the
height
of two cuttings!
The bed was one metre ninety in height, and the men could work standing.
It was like a flat chimney, seven hundred metres in height, between the wall of the shaft and the brattice of the winding-cage, a damp pipe, black and endless, in which the ladders were placed one above the other, almost straight, in regular stages.
At the lawyer's especially the terror was at its height, for he had just received by post an anonymous letter warning him that a barrel of powder was buried in his cellar, and that it would be blown up if he did not declare himself on the side of the people.
And in this justification, in this reasoning, in which he tried to fight against his remorse, was hidden the anxiety that he had not risen to the
height
of his task; it was the doubt of the half-cultured man still perplexing him.
As for its height, not even Ned Land, with his great stature, was able to determine it.
Fore and aft stood two cupolas of moderate height, their sides slanting and partly inset with heavy biconvex glass, one reserved for the helmsman steering the Nautilus, the other for the brilliance of the powerful electric beacon lighting his way.
There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, sea tangle stretching out their young and edible shoots, twisting strings of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a
height
of fifteen meters, bouquets of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, and a number of other open-sea plants, all without flowers.
At the moment of our noon sights, we passed fairly close to the island of Aurou, which looked to me like a mass of green woods crowned by a peak of great
height.
The islet of Aphroessa was circular in shape, measuring 300 feet in diameter and thirty feet in
height.
There the mountain rose only 700 to 800 feet above the plains; but on its far slope it crowned the receding bottom of this part of the Atlantic by a
height
twice that.
Slanting inward over their base, these high walls converged to form a vault shaped like an immense upside-down funnel that measured 500 or 600 meters in
height.
Now then, since these ice mountains don't exceed a
height
of 100 meters, they sink only to a depth of 300 meters.
This
height
had tripled since the moment the Nautilus had dived beneath the waves.
To the south, ten miles from the Nautilus, a solitary islet rose to a
height
of 200 meters.
They measured up to fifteen meters in
height
over a length of 150 to 175 meters, and the speed of their propagation (half that of the wind) was fifteen meters per second.
His waistcoat now never wanted lining, nor his shirt buttons, and it was quite a pleasure to see in the cupboard the night-caps arranged in piles of the same
height.
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