high-hung

• “He glared up at the Silent Ones, his hand twitching toward the high-hung pistol holster.”

  The Moon Pool

• “Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “So they went on the high-hung road along the top of the Brow.”

  The Lair of the White Worm

• “Word went abroad to the farthest confines of the Turkey Track neighbourhoods, carried by herders who took sheep, hogs, or cows up into the high-hung inner valleys of Yellow Old Bald, or the natural meadows of”

  Judith of the Cumberlands

• “Never such sunshine, such crystal air, such high-hung clouds!”

  Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers

• “It was a spacious room, with pale, high-hung draperies, a scent of flowers, such things as an etching of Greuze, an ivory and ebon crucifix over the bed.”

  Hilda A Story of Calcutta

• “On one side of this pillared chamber, high-hung heavy curtains drawn apart, disclosed”

  The Coming of the King

• “There was sorrow on Morag's face when she said that, but the sorrow went as the thin clouds go from before the face of the high-hung moon, and”

  The King of Ireland's Son

• “Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages.”

  The Age of Innocence

• “He glared up at the Silent Ones, his hand twitching to-ward the high-hung pistol holster.”

  The Moon Pool

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