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Tall and imposing, German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt has a sweet and easy, high-perched timbre that is sheer ear candy, giving Tito some credibility as a kind-hearted pushover.

Dark and Light Brilliance Judy Fayard 2011

Across the belt of railroad-tracks, factories with high-perched water-tanks and tall stacks-factories producing condensed milk, paper boxes, lighting-fixtures, motor cars.

Babbit 2004

Ten minutes later, in the high-perched bedroom of an hotel overlooking the Casino, he was tossing his effects into a couple of gaping portmanteaux, while the porter waited outside to transport them to the cab at the door.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Ten minutes later, in the high-perched bedroom of an hotel overlooking the Casino, he was tossing his effects into a couple of gaping portmanteaux, while the porter waited outside to transport them to the cab at the door.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Ten minutes later, in the high-perched bedroom of an hotel overlooking the Casino, he was tossing his effects into a couple of gaping portmanteaux, while the porter waited outside to transport them to the cab at the door.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

The cabin at the Grands Mulets is furnished with rough bunks and cooking apparatus, and during the summer a woman, Adéle Balmat, assisted by the guides, acts as hostess for this high-perched "inn," ten thousand feet above sea level.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

From Selency Château, whose thickets fringed the sky-line, on the right, to the high-perched windmill above

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

The moon shines brightly on its high-perched castle, and we have scarce stopped the paddles, when our deck is invaded by a new freightage of passengers, already far too many.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

And so, at a quarter to nine o'clock at night, the detail topped Greensburg's last ice-coated hill and entered the yard of its high-perched Barracks.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

A learned toad shall teach you, high-perched upon his stool;

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 Various