"height" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Southern Alps were named by Captain Cook on March 23, 1770, who described their "prodigious height".
- Mast and sail flew up in an instant together, and I saw them carried up to prodigious height, resembling in appearance a pterodactyle, one of those strong birds of the infant world.
- The mast and sail are carried away bodily, and I see them swept away to a prodigious height like a kite.
- The long swell, coming from the southeast, was of a prodigious height, but without the wind there was no menace in it.
- Michael had grown to almost six feet, a prodigious height for an Irish Channel kid, and a record for his branch of the Curry family.
- Often have I halted on my journey to ride around and admire the prodigious height and girth of these trees.
- The prodigious height of the leap, and the precision with which it was taken so as to enable him to dip his head into the hat, exceeded any feat of the kind I have ever beheld.
- Carter saw that it must be some beacon on a mountain, for only a mountain could rise so vast as seen from so prodigious a height in the air.
- You see, my nephew in spite of his prodigious height is only eighteen, and you really must go through me if you want to establish any sort of relationship at all with him.
- Barely had we reached it when it flamed into the air to prodigious heights . . . a curtain of thick fire.
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