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  • The sun had been high-a glorious bright L.A. day, the last she was to see for quite some time.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The sun had been high-a glorious bright L.A. day, the last she was to see for quite some time.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • The room contains a narrow desk with two drawers, a wardrobe that stretches nearly four cubits high-a good three cubits short of the heavy, timbered ceiling-two wooden chairs with arms, a full-length mirror on a stand, and a double-width bed, without canopy or hangings, covered with a quilt of green, on which appears silver notes.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • Hundreds of puffins and guillemots with outspread wings darted about in every direction, and beneath the trees strutted ospreys two feet high-a kind of hawk with a grey body, blue beak and claws, and orange-coloured eyes, which build their huge nests of marine plants in the forked branches of trees.

    The Fur Country 1874

  • At a time when unemployment is near an all time high-a whopping 12.4 percent -- it is disgraceful that 2,000 teachers and hundreds of other employees lose their jobs while the district spent $2 million in salaries that were unbudgeted.

    AroundTheCapitol.com 2010

  • The Carnegie Institution for Science, together with California State University recently published a study concluding that high-a

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • I bet he would start in high-a Salem to get some confidence and to avoid the blustery 40 degree Portland weather (wonder how much he has pitched in cold weather / outdoors) but I bet he could move to Portland quickly if we got him.

    Chop-n-Change 2008

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