“It’s impossible. Asking you and the other Library Olympians to work together for a higher, common purpose? Forget I even mentioned it. Dr. Zinchenko?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But on March I, 1954, a thermonuclear weapons test at Bikini in the Marshall Islands detonated at higher yield than expected. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the water had risen the day before, Frank had moved it from the driveway up to the porch and then to his next-door neighbor’s porch, which was higher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a question is that, Peach? Look—we’re on this rock! We can go even higher if we need to. You’re not about to die.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the wall’s foot the dead and broken were piled like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the enemy came on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This temple was a small structure, not higher in all than a man’s shoulder and made of grey bricks and roofed with tile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

At every meeting the limb seemed higher, thinner, the deeper water harder to reach. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a conference with some soldiers along the road, he became convinced that fruit was now bringing a higher price than white women in the city. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although these instruments are quite similar, the viola has a noticeably "deeper" and the violin a noticeably "brighter" sound that is not simply a matter of the violin playing higher notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A little higher, seemingly no more than a stone’s throw away, was the vertical gash of the Hillary Step, and slightly beyond that the summit itself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk, the pot becomes heavier and heavier in my hands as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems an odd name for a frequency that is two times, not eight times, higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He walked with an upright carriage, both ingratiating and defiant—but one shoulder was higher than the other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps more interesting is the question of higher dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to focus at his big lumpy nose, then a little higher at his eyes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten meters tall or higher, the structure’s entire facade was engulfed in flames. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

What had been lost in the postwar expansion of higher education was the sense that higher education implied privilege. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper lifted the comic higher up in front of his face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The next octave takes you up 2 times higher than that, or 8 times the frequency of the first note, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

With each attempt he floated a little higher and a little longer, and finally Brightbill really did soar. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ten feet above ground, there’s a rope bridge stretching upward from one platform to another, higher platform, across the glade. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick from a higher bush and a sweeter berry. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was well known that absent students were punished with higher tuitions the following term. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He paddled to the pink brick building, where the water met the church’s higher steps, and she lifted herself out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There is some evidence that the average level has risen since then to a consistently higher figure, and individuals with occupational or other special exposures to insecticides of course store even more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s layered in soft white chiffon, which contrasts nicely with my tattoos and rainbow hair, but it rides up higher than I thought it would. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have solid surfaces, interiors made of rock and iron, and atmospheres ranging from near-vacuum to pressures ninety times higher than the Earth’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using a stool, Kendra had reached even the higher shelves, but so far the search had been in vain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For those few moments I was higher, I was grander, than anyone. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“You can’t say that, Dill. The higher you go the colder it gets.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The buggy rolled on and the water rose higher. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and hard now, the last of the mist dissolved, and the sun, stepping higher above the trees, was hot on Winnie’s back. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he’s been choosing to fly a little higher above that evac center. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bird went higher in the air and circled again, his wings motionless. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose we were just playing for higher stakes than the Germans. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But higher rates of imprisonment did have a lot to do with it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

On a stony outcrop of land higher than the surrounding country, they passed a lord's pavilion with walls of heavy sailcloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I watch and wait, not daring to climb any higher. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little man came out of the shadow and stood calmly in the light, on a ledge higher than the children’s heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For officers, professionalization meant more training and implied a higher standard of on-the-job conduct. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun moves higher in the sky; she has to tilt the book out of the glare and then, after several minutes, switch to the other wingback so she doesn’t have to squint. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Speckled grey they rose, and moss-spotted, yet thick and strong and higher than any wolf could hope to leap. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The higher the intensity, the better the high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Well, we are in the same position in space as our puzzled flatlander, only we are flummoxed by a higher dimension. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid,” put in Cutie himself at this point, “that my friends obey a higher one than you, now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The higher your rank, the more special privileges you earn, like unlocking secret pages and online games and puzzles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We’re all awestruck—watching the flames reach higher into the sky, creating snakelike trails. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Marcus wouldn't be in this ordinary school anymore, but in one of the higher education buildings reserved for scholars. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes higher and higher until she is out of sight. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stacked higher than where that nest used to rest in that tree that used to stand by the creek that flows by Axel’s house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was reaching up in her mind to put a piece of wood on a pile higher than her head. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A faint flush crept up his neck, and the pitch of his voice lifted, became a fraction higher. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take one of the golden lifts to a higher floor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As the sun went higher and left the eastern sky, the square of sunshine on the wall grew larger and diffuse, and the bright yellow color of early morning was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is a path that goes in the same direction but is in the woods higher up the hillside. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“That’ll have to be adequate. The water monster song is of higher importance right now. Make arrangements to ensure you are prepared for the journey,” Darkness said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His mouth curved up the same way as Sohrab’s, with one side a little higher than the other. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

ERAs, he asserted authoritatively, could never be higher than 27. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped back on the board and continued, slower now as she looked carefully for whatever might fit Shay’s clue, remembering to stick on a sunblock patch as the sun rose higher. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The tree I choose seems to jut higher into the air than the others. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, it’s difficult for you, who knew him best,” said Slughorn, who like Harry could reach no higher than Hagrid’s elbow, but patted it all the same. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I linked my finger through his as we rose higher, higher. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When it comes to best practices in usage, there is no higher authority. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Apparently a surgeon was of a higher status than a doctor. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promonto-ries and snow on their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When given a choice, readers tend to attach phrases lower in the tree rather than higher. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was two hours higher now and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the east. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to ease the pressure was to boost the total of paid admissions to far higher levels. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not, Haldeman granted, but he was working for people higher up, including John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While the turnout of West Oakland High attendees was higher than Moss expected, an unease crept through him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her mom had warned her that it was higher than it looked, but nothing could dissuade her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The bees zoomed among its bright and sticky leaves, higher and higher toward heaven, and a rope ladder disappeared among the foliage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the soldiers turned, Louie ran to the flag and immediately realized that it was much higher than he had thought. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It won’t be so easy as you get higher,” Grandma warned. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“What about that one?” she asked, turning quickly away to point at a big book on a higher shelf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the longer he stared at that water, that foaming green water, rising higher every second, the more certain he became: The Titanic was in trouble. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel doesn’t think much of termites, needless to say, and insists that the word has some other, higher meaning. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to spend the afternoon traveling to higher ground, hunting as we go. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s washroom graffiti raised to a higher order. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“God, I feel like I’m high enough already to be climbing a rainbow. This thing is a lot higher than it looks from the ground.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a kindness we remove our friends from the domain of the gravity machine before we dial higher gravities still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses higher on his nose and then squinted. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In a long flash of lightning, I see another wave coming at us from behind, higher than all the others—and at the wave’s crest, I see too many fiery red eyes to count. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And the turn-in value is higher than that of automobiles because there’s a ready market for used homes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sound from a source speeding toward a listener would become compressed and register at a higher pitch, while sound speeding away would be heard with a drop in its pitch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The closer together the waves are, the higher the frequency or pitch; the farther apart the waves are, the lower the pitch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt a lot higher than it had looked from the ground. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In January 1997, Bayona advised Farmer that if they wanted to get around the political roadblocks in Peru, they had to go to higher authorities. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed knocking them around a little bit; it gave her a certain satisfaction to be able to kick higher than the guy’s head. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their new, higher rents meant that they'd have to cut back on their spending, to work longer hours, or try to wean themselves off their costly psychiatrists. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He moved happily about the crowded room, one shoulder held higher than the other, mopping his face with a white silk handkerchief. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Let’s start with the positive correlation: books in the home equal higher test scores. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Over the green higher hills to the south, the evening fog rolled like herds of sheep coming to cote in the golden city. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places the snow was higher than he was, and the big direwolf had to stop and shake it off after plunging through the thin crust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The baby monitor on the table beside them crackled, and she adjusted the volume slightly higher. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No higher pleasure...even compared with the happy event that, I hear, has taken place in your family this week?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mom had asked me over and over that summer and fall as my skirts got shorter, my heels higher, my lipstick darker, my heart angrier and angrier at her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners or by upstart would-be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded at intervals with the fog whistle from the lighthouse, a higher note, more desolate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It was higher quality than that. Not so pixelated. It looked like a yearbook portrait.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The bellows wheezed in and out while the sun rose higher in the sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She coasted for a bit and then began to pump her legs, rising higher and higher. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were moving among many two-legs, and behind these were big cliffs of stone that had caves in them where two-legs were passing in and out, or standing in the higher ones, looking out. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You boys will regret it if you move any farther up the ranks. Trust me. It’s just more hassle and higher tuitions.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He moved his legs like a gaited horse and held his chin just a bit higher than most men do. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The higher their position in the hierarchy, the deeper their resentment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the foolish logic of this program of social reform: Because many Hispanics were absent from higher education, I became with my matriculation an exception, a numerical minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paused in their preparations to watch it climb higher and higher, now black against the rapidly darkening sky, until it vanished over a nearby mountain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hilly’s never given me higher than a four. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Our projections had Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all at a 70% or higher chance of going blue, but latest returns have them too close to call. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Armstead had been ranked higher than Granger in some national magazine a few years earlier and officially became the school with the best facilities, the best teachers, and the most Ivy League acceptance letters. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The icy trenches rose around them, knee high, then waist high, then higher than their heads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the night wore on and the moon got higher, we were backed up foot by foot until we were only a block from the Empire State Building in any direction. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I fly higher into the blue, hovering beneath clouds. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Time for another day of higher learning,” Aech said, standing up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more lag- gardly I moved. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Powders to turn fire green or blue or silver, powders to make a flame roar and hiss and leap up higher than a man is tall, powders to make smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He demanded that every trader in Malawi hang his picture in his shop, and no other photo could dare hang higher. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They chuckled, and he lifted the arm linked with hers a bit higher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They felt that she was translated to a higher order. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The high parts of the reflected waves would meet the high parts of the oncoming waves and make them even higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He got ahold of another huge gear and hauled himself higher. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, higher in the mountains, we came across a baby VC water buffalo. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raised the tin up higher so that it was in front of my heart like a shield. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is still scandalously high, higher in fact than my aftertax weekly pay will amount to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steve Jobs, too, gave credit to his arts training, which was just about the sum total of his higher education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like people who attack when their opponent’s back’s turned,” growled Moody as the ferret bounced higher and higher, squealing in pain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The island was about the size of two tennis courts side by side, and no part of it rose higher than the height of Malcolm’s waist above the flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I reeled back with a groan of disgust, then forced myself to raise the door even higher so I wouldn’t have to lean over to look inside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The higher the frequency of a note, the higher it sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Emerging from his goblet, coughing, sopping wet but still grinning, he saw something calculated to raise his spirits even higher: Draco Malfoy being dragged by the ear toward them by Argus Filch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The number of them was much higher than I could count at the time. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the rains had fallen, the grass had grown higher than any other grass she had seen, and now it waved golden brown in the wind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as they climbed higher and higher, London unfurling below them like a gray-and-green map, Harry’s overwhelming feeling was of gratitude for an escape that had seemed impossible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I am amazed, because it does fly just like a little bird, flitting up and down and around, higher than I can reach. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It hopped to a higher blade of grass, preened, and sang its morning song. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane swooped down off the porch, then suddenly caught an updraft and climbed higher than their heads, looped and glided smoothly to the grass. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He no longer lived there, but he had a little operation there—he would bring drugs into the county because he could sell them for a higher premium than in the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Zigzag across the ground floor, make for the higher ground. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Smasher’s one good ear stood up higher than a collie’s ear should. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, playing for higher stakes than he could afford in some rather steep bridge games with his New York connections, he had held cards and won several hundred dollars. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Traditional restaurants generally provide a product of higher average quality but of much greater variability, especially on the downward side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself upward, pushed again—he was higher now than Lina had been—but suddenly his hands slid and he came plummeting down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Baltimore City residents increasingly bled into it, exchanging the city for the county’s spacious neighborhoods, quality schools, and higher per capita income. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The nearest peaks rose ten thousand feet higher than the valley floor, with Whitney, the highest, just off to the south. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A note that is an octave higher or lower than a note named "C natural" will also be named "C natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The two of them on the swings at the park, kicking their legs higher and higher. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Because he worked so slowly, he made far fewer pieces than the other potters, and consequently had to sell each of them at a higher price. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At last he spoke, and his voice though resonant was higher and clearer than Treebeard’s. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He said, One, Two, Three, he sure could count the three days of After School Detention I had now and he wanted to know if I’d like to see him count even higher. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And they immediately understood it for what it was—a signal that they needed to do what was impossible, to go even higher. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The strikebreakers’ pay was fifteen times higher than the strikers’ had been. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The only way to get the higher yields was to buy seed from seed companies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but hope she had a tent pitched out here somewhere on some little piece of land two feet higher than everything else, keeping the rain off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rocky Gustano held one eyebrow higher than the other, as if he hadn’t expected the picture to be taken just then—Chess always looked surprised in pictures, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But with both superpowers now holding nuclear weapons, the stakes had gotten much higher and the battlefield even larger. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That man, who had a higher standing in society, was guilty before God for abandoning her to keep his social status. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying higher higher higher or some other metaphorically resonant moment. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The moon climbed higher and the air returned to stillness and waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example a bass trombone4l has a lower range than a tenor trombone, and an alto saxophone42 sounds higher than a tenor saxophone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Large societies of food producers have not only more members but also higher population densities than do small bands of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down once more, back against a gravestone, and began to drift slowly away, turning his mind away as you shift a field of vision with your glasses, moving to focus on higher ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Observers on higher platforms bustled up and down ladders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We’d try and joggle the other higher, or joggle them off the board altogether. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her skirts are a little higher than a real lady would wear, midcalf just like the rest of us, modesty leggings underneath. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She was a shy woman, so courteous she spoke in a voice barely higher than a whisper and she would not raise her pretty hazel eyes to meet my gaze. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he uncurled his stiff limbs and got up quietly, shivering; and with the knife at his waist he set off higher up the mountain, to calm his restlessness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, their key signatures will look very different, but music in D sharp will not be any higher or lower than music in E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By early afternoon there was a stillness of heat, and a herd of cows from the higher fields slowly grazed their way down into the shade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You can,’ the BFG said, and he lifted her to a higher shelf. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The probability that he’d hit safely in at least forty-four straight games is about four times higher still. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By slowly feeling her way around—and scrambling back onto shore when a large wave came through—Nhamo staked out a sizable area where the water reached no higher than her chest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Socioeconomic status is a strong indicator of success in general—it suggests a higher IQ and more education—and successful parents are more likely to have successful children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Few researchers today accept Dobyns’s estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few men pulled the shark up higher by ropes and pulleys, and I followed the length of the shark’s white belly from nose to tail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They rose upward in circles, higher and higher, until at last, slightly dizzy, Harry saw a gleaming oak door ahead, with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And never did the stakes seem higher than on waffle day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never particularly cared for Spencer; his house is at the very top of the hill—higher and bigger than ours, but technically ours is taller. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the year 1936 introduced a string of technical improvements yielding higher energies, higher currents, and unprecedented reliability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The moon was higher now and not as bright, but Neel squinted into the trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today, more than half of college students accepted in any program of higher education are women. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ship was a lot higher than I figured. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The red Thorndike dictionaries were going to need some help; most of their covers had come off when we stepped onto them to climb higher up the bookshelves. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She said hello to me and her voice surprised me with its pitch, clearer and higher than I was hearing those days. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything you do, every attempt you make to climb higher, I feel taller. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was Chess lifting the phone higher. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A piece will also sound higher or lower once it is transposed. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

May these, as we go to still higher energies, in turn be found to be made from still smaller particles? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instrument with a slightly higher fundamental will have a slightly higher range; an instrument with a much lower fundamental will have a much lower range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And during the second half of the season, Babe Ruth again hits for a higher average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Shanti soared higher, her handler shouted, “You are on your own! A girl without a tribe is no one. No one!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One of his shoulders was much higher than the other, and he stooped over his trencher like a vulture over carrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The car climbs higher and higher, groaning up the rickety wooden tracks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa read the papers and studied the changeless peaks, while all around us other families were moving out, forcing our name ever higher on the list. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first great strike of 1919 began on January 21, when thirty-five thousand Seattle, Washington, shipyard workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The hydrofoils kept the Dauntless above much of the chop, but as the waves grew higher, the prow of the ship was starting to bury itself in foam. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s basic math: the better a competitor’s result, the more points she’s awarded, and the higher her ranking becomes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And, critically, the higher the stroke rate, the harder it is to keep all the many individual movements of the crew synchronized. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yet even that number somehow feels remarkably low, and the fact that it isn’t higher is a miracle—or at least, that’s what people have been reaching for. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fangor and Shed could easily leap ten feet in the air, and the sparkling ceiling of the cavern over the beach was not much higher. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I must act before they get any higher. Only an onager such as this can make the shot. I will singlehandedly -’ ‘Centurion,’ said a voice behind him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The harder she hit him, the higher she jumped, the more fiercely the squirrel clung. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s because I’m not at their level any more: I’m higher, so the sound comes up to me filtered. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was the snarl of an engine somewhere, not the heavy thump of a zeppelin but something higher like the drone of a hornet It drifted in and out of hearing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we entered hill country, climbing higher and deeper into the Appalachian Mountains, stopping from time to time to let the Oldsmobile catch its breath on the steep, twisting roads. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was glad to have help, though working with his wife only raised the stakes higher. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When dinner was through, the dishes would pile even higher than the mountain Mom and I had washed after Nowruz. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know there was that much sky, as we flew, Barnie and me, in stuttering circles higher than birds, over the patchwork fields. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My rates might be a little higher than average, but my guests do not have a single complaint. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of it is a large metal sculpture that the Dauntless climb after school, daring each other to go higher and higher. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For hamstring stretches, one person lies on the grass on his back with his leg straight up, while the other person leans in and slowly presses the leg a little higher. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In one case, the scores on tests where cheating was possible were 50 percent higher, on average, than the “honest” scores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the pond, on higher ground, was a grove of trees, hundreds of them, all about ten feet high and six feet wide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then a little wave would come up higher than the others and wet our canvas shoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Those with higher numbers shift impatiently in their seats as they wait for the man with the notebook to reappear and politely call out the number on their respective slips of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bronn blew gently on the fire, and the flames leapt up higher. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his ruff a little higher up on his neck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As he coaxed the flames higher, his thoughts again focused on escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His broomstick was still rising higher and higher, and started to drift lazily toward the forbidden forest and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Even academics on the Left who criticized the ‘elitism’ of higher education seemed not to recognize how different they themselves were from the socially disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was while he was at the Military School at Breda that Descartes met the mathematician Isaac Beeckman, of Dordrecht, who introduced him to higher aspects of mathematics and became a long-term friend. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Betas would process less material but at higher intensities, leaving less flexibility for loss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When he stepped off his bike, the waistline of his slacks was way higher than normal, but somehow he still managed to look manly and stylish and not like a total goober. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some have become symbionts in more specialized, local relations, living as working parts in the tissues of higher organisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women could not attend college; higher education was considered unnecessary for women, who were expected to manage the home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meryra would have a sorry and crooked bowl, he reflected, if he did not hold his elbow higher, and he must stiffen his wrist or that sharp-edged hammer would leave marks all over the gold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He stood erect, several inches higher than the inspector, with his head lifted up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are bales of hay lining the entire surface of the trailer, stacked up higher along the back, and red bandanas knotted together like streamers all around the border of the frame. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I stared as water rushed toward us, growing higher and higher, closer and closer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

So the two-spheres theory was abandoned, even while efforts were made by some conservative thinkers to preserve the traditional claim that the seas are higher than the land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The humidity inside the Hab is a lot higher than it was designed for, so the water reclaimer is constantly filtering it out of the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In foster homes, holidays always had a way of making me feel like an outsider—and now the stakes were higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A woman spoke, and the sound of the voice wound Harry’s fear to an even higher pitch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The raft climbed higher and higher, aiming for the circular hole in the ceiling, until we shot out of the darkness of the Thicket and into the red-orange glow of the afternoon sun. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ged did not stop, but slowed his pace, and as he went forward he raised his staff up a little higher. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The diving board is even higher than it seems from the floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Why haven’t you spoken to us sooner?” screeched the owl, from higher up in the tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was high on the summit of Round Top, higher than any man in either army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way she looked at the king—looked down at him, she was a good hand higher, though Renly was near as tall as his brother had been—was painful to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The top of the arch was about twelve feet off the ground, higher than was convenient for jumping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For example, the closer together those evenly-spaced waves are, the higher the note sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sefia and the boy didn’t have time to climb any higher. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Until then I had had no thoughts of anything but my own pleasures, no higher ambition than to eat well and become a champion stick-fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame flapped higher and the boys broke into a cheer. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then in a higher tone she repeated, "The big payback!" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Every time I see you going higher, I go higher. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sky arched over them, higher than they could have imagined, a pale, clear blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Bruce,” came the reply from Stanley, a man with a much higher voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was descending, but the white sun rose no higher. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In recognition of this, Swift and his fellow meatpacking company owners kept them on as part of the expanded work force and even paid them at a higher rate than the unskilled men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As she read it, her eyebrows crept higher. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The counselor said the rate was even higher if you didn’t finish high school. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But he climbed, clawing his way higher until he was at the top of the freight car and could see down the length of the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But for once, and for the only time in my life, I jumped higher than Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the five terms correlated with a higher sale price are physical descriptions of the house itself: granite, Corian, and maple. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He stayed sitting behind his desk in a chair a lot higher than mine when I was finally called in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The minuet is in C, but the melody is a little too low for a flute46 , and the bassoonist would also be more comfortable playing higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 2000 census revealed that one-third of Clarkston’s population was foreign-born, though almost everyone suspected the number was higher because census estimates did not account for large numbers of refugees and immigrants living together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

With a roar, the fire turned emerald green and rose higher than Fred, who stepped right into it, shouted, “Diagon Alley!” and vanished. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As we saw when we first encountered the octave, if your column of air is exactly half the length of where you started, you will get a note that is the same pitch, only higher. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The editor of the Rushville, Indiana, American felt a higher being was responsible. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous sycamore tree stands higher than all the rest, dappling the valley floor with the shade of its leaves and making the whole glade feel like a secret, round room. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

White workers got higher wages, but Fred didn’t complain: eighty cents an hour was more than most Lackses had ever seen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Black men, they say, have much higher rates of violent crime; that’s why so many of them are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey, he has reached a higher level. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where I sat, leaning against my tree stump and looking up, it seemed higher than a Ferris wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Again he looked all around, but this time his gaze was higher and more direct; he knew that I was hiding, watching him, from someplace in the distance. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or had his own attention and expectancy shifted him into this state of higher awareness? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, ma’am. I brought your breakfast,” she said, struggling back to standing and lifting the tray a little higher. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had climbed the walls of his pen, of course, but he’d never been higher than its six feet. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher as the morning went on, drawing heat from every crevice of the city’s roads and buildings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The spot where they emerged from the car was slightly elevated, about a hundred feet higher than the heart of the city. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I raised my head a little higher to get a better look at him and his big car. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The crews here, tonight, were better; the stakes were higher. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They dodge her angry swings and drift higher toward the ceiling. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

During the gravitational collapse of a star to form a black hole, the movements would be much more rapid, so the rate at which energy is carried away would be much higher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on Malaga Island, the orange light flared higher, and a line of lanterns headed toward shore, disappearing from Turner’s sight as they neared the granite ledges. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My two older brothers were at a higher risk of being forced to join the army because of their ages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had no ear for music at all, and found it impossible to tell if one note was higher or lower than another. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The morning sun moves higher on the wall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

We drive the streets of town as the sun climbs higher in the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She looked a little bit like one of my idols, Shawn Johnson, who had won the 2006 US Junior National All-Around Championship with a score that was higher than all her senior-level competitors. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a city on the hill,” the pastor says, raising his hands in supplication, as though he’s appealing to a higher power. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They also monitored the apparent motion of the Moon: the twenty- eight higher niches in the kiva may represent the number of days for the Moon to return to the same position among the constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the 43,500 fatalities on U.S. roadways the previous year, 17,590 had been caused by drivers with a blood alcohol level of .08 or higher. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A round and golden moon rolled low along the horizon for the next few days, too huge and weighty to rise up any higher into the sky. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“There’s always going to be someone kicking you down so they can climb higher. It’s just human nature. Why waste your time trying to change the system when you can just game it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, it doesn’t. The higher it is the colder it is because the air gets thinner. Now Scout, you say, ‘Tom, where are we going?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But as she climbed higher and higher, she started to get the hang of it. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Higher, he flew—higher—until the heat of the sun melted the wax holding those wings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t let her out of my sight, but I’m higher on the hill, climbing a parallel course, and Piper is behind me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was horrible,” said Neville, in a higher voice than usual. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He soared higher in the sky world toward the mountaintops and Inti’s home. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To achieve those goals, Klan leaders, who were all from the higher social classes, needed the support of lower-class whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the younger boys tried to pull him down to earth, but Vetch merely drifted up a little higher, out of reach, and sat calmly smiling on the air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tide lifted the canoe higher in the room, and as the water lapped against the walls it sounded like the soft music of a flute. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

No longer interested in the water, we joined our mother on the beach blanket and dedicated ourselves to the higher art of tanning. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I think that maybe lunch is some secret component of our final score because there is no higher achievement for a southern woman than the ability to eat barbecue and walk away stain free. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As we hit the mountainside and drove higher and higher, my driver had to get off the bike sometimes and push it over the terrain. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He jumped up to the next higher step. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully I ranked higher than him . . . oh, and all the Dauntless-born initiates. Forgot about them.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He must, because one side of his smile tilts higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s a river anymore. This is ever so much higher. There’s water everywhere.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lacking men, Theon had been forced to abandon the outer defenses and post his guards along the higher inner walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My skeleton was a male’s, with its higher center of gravity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Warm muscles help you jump higher so you land like a feather rather than a brick. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the Times poll, 45 percent of respondents said they were in a higher class than when they grew up, while just 16 percent said they were in a lower one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.5: Since the sounds are travelling at about the same speed, the one with the shorter wavelength 11waves11 more frequently; it has a higher frequency, or pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He hovered there for a second, rising a little higher than before, and then he sailed backward into the soft grass again. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is certainly much to celebrate about higher education today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One can picture a line that goes up steeply when the melody suddenly jumps to a much higher note, or that goes down slowly when the melody gently falls. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And with every blink, the molasses was rising higher. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was now a little higher in the sky: it was starting to warm my feet. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow Spanish Harlem would run faster, fly higher, stretch out its arms farther, and one day those dreams would carry its people to new beginnings. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were the ones with the opportunity for higher education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, Matt realized, the old man meant him to have a higher destiny. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought, I am higher than any of you, I am higher than anyone in the world. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

While deciding on a new key, though, keep in mind that you are also making the piece higher or lower, and choose keys accordingly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Voices and instruments with higher ranges usually learn to read treble clef, while voices and instruments with lower ranges usually learn to read bass clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She says it was not really right to read it, but sometimes you have to do something wrong for a higher good. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elevations of the higher ones generate rain in the mountains, so the islands are heavily weathered and have deep soils and permanent streams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bit higher than the rest of the city.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was somewhere in the three hundreds, and the total had to be even higher now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Tired of mutant hunting, Muller wondered if he could accelerate the production of mutants—perhaps by exposing flies to heat or light or higher bursts of energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the search proceeded, it became more obvious that solving the mystery of nuclear structure required probes of higher energies than nature provides. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency, and the higher the pitch, of the sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She pushed higher and her foot skidded down the brick. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Matt’s spirits rose still higher as he thought about traveling through those gray-brown mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first half of the season, Babe Ruth hits for a higher batting average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes two days for the storm to blow itself out, leaving us with drifts higher than my head. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water became bluer, darker, as the tub filled higher. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Emo fed off each man he killed, and the higher the rank of the dead man, the higher it made Emo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finn watched Joe’s face: His eye twitched, he winced, then the corner of his mouth moved just a little higher. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He laughed and said he believed they could jump higher than they thought they could. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He began flying to and fro, getting higher at each turn. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But with my article out in the world, I’ve made the risks a lot higher. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She raised the lightning bolt a little higher. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The man had paused in the road and hoisted the wooden jiggeh higher on his back, shifting the cumbersome weight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Since Iceland’s interest rate at that time was higher than Switzerland’s, it’s curious why Bobby didn’t want the transfer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could set the temperature of the Hab higher than normal, meaning my body would expend less energy keeping its temperature. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Such prayers could rise no higher than the lips that uttered them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see him. But I can’t see behind the bushes. Oh, if I could just fly higher...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or, if the corn were higher, he could vanish into it, go missing himself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But now the stakes were much higher—the Candidates results would determine who played for the World Championship—and Fischer wasn’t going to let an obnoxious eye jinx keep him from his destiny. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The servant hoisted the umbrella higher so that Headmaster could join Gupta under the portable shade. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could only see it because of the light: with the sun any higher it probably wouldn’t show up at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She turned and gripped the dory and pulled it higher, Turner pushing, and then she stood, hands on hips, and smiled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He raised his fist higher, raised it for another blow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wind stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and although the waves continued out of rhythm they were not wind-tattered, and the tide rose higher and higher. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small fingers of it would run off course and only stopped when they hit some higher ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the higher added notes are considered extensions of the "stack of thirds" begun in the triad. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s about so high, Mr. Robot, sir, only higher, and he’s very nice. He’s got a head, you know. I mean you haven’t, but he has, Mr. Robot, sir.’ I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With light, the faster the wave bobs up and down—the higher its frequency—the more energy it has. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All summer prices climbed higher and higher and food got scarcer and scarcer. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept as close as they could to the western side, and they could see the dim shapes of the low cliffs rising ever higher, shadowy walls with their feet in the hurrying river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On very hot days, the algae’s weave became tight and dense, and the island increased in height; the climb to the ridge be­came steeper and the ridge higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The higher you go in the world, the harder it gets to breathe. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The river was full, holding his beloved canoe higher than usual, and he could see at once that she had been worked on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Men whose will was tempered to a sharper edge might have done much better: talked more, shared the water more justly, given more ease to the sick, and kept their courage higher. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underdown told us the Belgians have always had the policy of steering the Congolese boys away from higher education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son serves on the Council of Defense, for example. And Mr. Nefrger on the draft board, and—” Each word she spoke got higher and more shrill. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

‘I would cut off your head, beard and all, Master Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground,’ said Éomer. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The grass around the well was tamped down, but everywhere else it grew up in weedy thickets that reached higher than some of the ground-floor windows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even her voice assumed a higher pitch that demanded to be heard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“According to the equations, it should have gone three thousand feet higher.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And raised conscious, in rejection of a Christian God, I could see no higher purpose in Prince’s death. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Joey’s voice was getting higher with everything she said, and when she was done she was sounding real crazy. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel nodded, looking at the baking sun as it rose higher. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Each time Joanna passed, her cheeks got pinker, her head went higher and her skirt flipped behind her more defiantly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the tops of the roofs a column of smoke still rises, higher now than before. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The pigeon had taken off and was now higher than the afternoon sun. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The willows and tamarics were almost bare then, except for the branches higher than a man could reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? How can I aim higher?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Cave 3.0 was older than the others, with wood floors and higher ceilings, so the place had an echo. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly supported the racial civil rights movement; supported the goal of broadening access to higher education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we climbed higher the horizon kept changing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Martin Sheen, by contrast, can be connected to every other actor in 2.63681 steps, which puts him almost 650 places higher than Bacon. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Although it’s been so long since we’ve seen port, I wouldn’t be surprised if the ropes have evolved into higher forms of life.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When he stands in the center, he looks from the Dauntless bowl to the Candor bowl—the orange flames that rise higher each moment, and the glass reflecting blue light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"But unicorns are the deadliest, fiercest, and most bloodthirsty of all creatures, both mundane and supernatural. Their kill ratio is six times higher than a dragon's." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Connor says, pushing his sleeve up higher to reveal all of it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Milkman hoisted the stake he was carrying a little higher and said, “I dropped the gun. I tripped and it went off. Then when I picked it up it went off again.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police did receive a higher volume of calls, particularly near the imaginary landing site. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pumped a lever and I rose higher. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When you crash into an opponent, who ever’s lance is higher on the screen wins the joust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve been looking into it, and the academic standards are quite high, much higher than he’s getting at the comprehensive, I’m sure.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Try stringing it up higher on your bars.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amber chisels out higher cheekbones and a more pronounced forehead. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The second rule was that every word that sounded like a number, or like it had a number in it, had to be changed so that the number was one higher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They’ve barely noticed that I’m there, more intent on calling out to their mother and arguing about who’s going higher on the swings. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Enormous ingenuity is apparent with some of the loners in placing the water supply higher than the unit and connecting it with plastic pipe so that a gravity flow is insured. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way I saw it, Mr. Paine was saying all people were the same, that no one deserved a crown or was born to be higher than another. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scored 98.1 suspect that had I given him another 10 minutes to think, he would have scored even higher. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are just singing them one octave higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"Haie, man, she must have legs like, legs—” his thoughts mount somewhat higher "and a behind too she must have, like a—like an elephant!” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually Stella added her own voice—higher, sweeter. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The order had come from higher, true, but still he should’ve exercised some field discretion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Glasses had a fifth-story apartment, a story higher than the school building, and at this hour the sun was shining over the school roof and through the Glasses’ naked living-room windows. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

As August passed in peace and quiet, spirits rose even higher: spring was on the way. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They lived mostly in Staddle though there were some in Bree itself, especially on the higher slopes of the hill, above the houses of the Men. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My guides lead me into a narrow corridor with a ceiling that gradually slopes higher and higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone was waiting, watching the balloon drift higher up into the clouds. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was higher up and much smaller than the classroom windows, but we’d still be able to drop our eggs out of it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The dark, shadowy waves rose higher and the room took on motion. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another splintering crack echoed like a gunshot deep in the Maafa, and the ship tilted, lifting me higher while Uncle Cotton slid to the other side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The river narrowed and the banks rose higher, growing into dark limestone cliffs with sides too steep for the jungle to cling to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It is possible that at some later time with third and higher orders of colonies developing new worlds, another independent expanding civilization would be discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unseasonably pleasant weather inspires people to pay at a higher rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Each step is equal-sized. Sure, for the people higher up this ladder, their kids are more apt to get more education, better health insurance. But that doesn’t mean there are classes.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She’d figure it out one day, but for now she could go on believing that some higher power sent me where it thought I needed to be. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s laugh is higher and louder, and I don’t know much about him, but I have no doubts his laugh is legit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Now he could offer Matthias more than freedom, but the price would be far higher than she had expected. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Under this system, Fischer emerged a half point higher than Bisguier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If that happened, it would be like Brazil all over again, only with higher stakes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The water wouldn’t come any higher than my knees. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next ball he threw was higher than the first, with a wicked spin he put on with his fingertips just before he released it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If only Felicia could take an interest in the revolution, Celia believes, it would give her a higher purpose, a chance to participate in something larger than herself. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a motif, a subject has often changed when it reappears, sounding higher or lower, for example, or faster or slower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So why don’t employees behave in an equally rational fashion, demanding higher wages of their employers or seeking out better-paying 7 “Companies Try Dipping Deeper into Labor Pool,” New York Times, March 26,2000. jobs? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning the truck heads northwest as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky, and the wind blows away what little protection the clouds have to offer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the garment district was the fur district, where the pay was somewhat higher. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On any staff, the notes are always arranged so that the next letter is always on the next higher line or space. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It skimmed overhead, no higher than a rooftop above them, and then moved away into the heart of the storm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the higher of the two shelves, he placed the smaller pieces. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“People have a higher percentage of Spanic in their personal ratios.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He is propped higher, on clean sheets, and the IV is gone. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t see that many Divergent resisting truth serum. Just Tris, in recent memory. The capacity for serum resistance seems to be higher in some people than others—take yourself, for example, Tobias.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When she rested, Trashman perched on a higher step and waited. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were over 100,000 known addicts in Baltimore, and the real number was arguably higher. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Only a minority of women live to age eighty-five, and incidence rates are changing and are much higher for older women. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candidates for higher education would be expected to have tracts of Cicero, Virgil, Isocrates, and Homer by heart. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lights brighten again, the whir grows louder, our smiles lift higher, and then it all stops dead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mixed economies that added certain crops or livestock to hunting-gathering also competed against both types of “pure” economies, and against mixed economies with higher or lower proportions of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The voice shouted the same thing, over and over again, and each time it climbed into a higher, more hysterical register. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the nodes in John’s neck were much harder, and his white blood cell count much higher, than would have been the case in someone with TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“No. They just say that the score should have been higher, but Lake Windsor missed all five extra points.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The icy peaks rose up higher and higher above. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They played war, that simple game where each player puts down a card, and the higher card takes both. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time I’ve lost from setting up the dynamite is now made up as I rapidly get higher and higher, until I reach the wall of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the sun was higher it would be a lovely day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I live in a city where twenty-five per cent of the population is Negro and I doubt that the percentage is much higher, except in spots, in the eleven Civil War States. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the fish only continued to swim at a slightly higher level. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again she felt the surge of power as the crow’s broad wings beat down against the air; this time it lasted longer for they were going higher than before. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Tenors are higher than basses,” she says, “which is easy to remember because basses are in the basement.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Yesterday we passed four hundred thousand, but the number has to be even higher than that now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The strange light the sun made in the water, now that the sun was higher, meant good weather and so did the shape of the clouds over the land. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the part is written for a B flat instrument, it is written one whole step higher than it actually sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Which harmonic will be one octave higher than the fourth harmonic? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Washington also advised blacks to spurn higher education, ridiculing degrees in Greek, Latin, and law as “ornamental gewgaws” and stressing the sufficiency of industrial education for his people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was an aircraft crossing the cay not much higher than the palms. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the line and already ahead by four lengths, George Morry finally called for a higher stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With each beat of their wings, we climbed higher between the canyon of skyscrapers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Neeley got the shoe-shine kit from the closet and proceeded to put a higher shine on his already flawlessly polished shoes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is higher, lighter than I expected. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She said nothing, just raised her chin a little higher. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were sounds in the world now, too: insects were stirring, and a very slight breeze was rustling the dry grass stems growing higher up the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I’d reached a safe distance, I held up the guard to taunt them, then held him still higher and leered into his face. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though these mountains were unfamiliar to him, the trees were the same as at home—maple, oak, and wild plum giving way gradually to pines as he climbed higher. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Each candle changed subdy as it was put in place; its flame rose thinner and higher, taking on a golden- white tinge instead of the cold, threatening blue. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned home, he resumed college at Temple University and then went through its law school, with every penny of his higher education paid by that great entitlement program called the GI Bill. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was of a much higher rank than Baruch or Balthamos, and visible by a shimmering, disconcerting light that seemed to come from somewhere else. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A day ago, above the zigzag rooftops, the cathedral spire pointed straight up, higher than everything else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Standing on them, we could look in any window except the one in the bathroom, which was higher than the others. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell you what color his eyes were, because I could never make-myself look higher than his crooked teeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Antigone rebels, on the grounds that there is a higher law than that of the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine mist rose out of the jar, higher, higher, straight into the air vent above. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jane Bromet, who phoned in daily reports for Outside Online,! was one of the correspondents on Fischer’s team, but she wasn’t a client and didn’t have permission to climb higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The track went much higher than a hoverboard could go on its own. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Something that makes the tower rise higher and higher.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The harvests had been very poor, shop prices were higher than ever. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The octave below contra can be labelled CCC or Co; higher octaves can be labelled with higher numbers or more lines. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I watched as one soared higher and higher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi led them next to one of the wheels of the chariot, higher than any human being, nine feet in diameter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I climb higher to get away from the seeking tip of the highest tentacle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Jojo came staggering back, this time with a pile of kindling higher than his head. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers standing near her lifts his gun higher. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I heard the noise rise to a higher, almost hysterical pitch, somehow making it possible to hear without yelling, our voices moving blurrily underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his shoulders was higher than the other, giving him a crooked cast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frightful put distance between them by climbing higher. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Such black holes would have a much higher temperature and would be emitting radiation at a much greater rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped inside and held the lantern higher. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids are everywhere, taping paper chain to the walls, and custodians are atop tall ladders, covering the higher, harder to reach places. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Taryn jumped harder and higher, somersaulting and flipping, sending Ivy’s body bouncing around the trampoline like a rubber ball. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Also, if the test prevents poor students from advancing without merit, they won’t clog up the higher grades and slow down good students. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She built small platforms higher up in the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In experiments, children who are asked to read a passage and are then tested on it will invariably score higher than children asked to watch a video of the same subject matter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar cawed twice, and then we took off, flapping in a giant, gusty circle as we built up speed and climbed higher and higher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the table, my eyes were slightly higher than his. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had to be higher up; that was the only answer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And every time he defeated a player with a higher rating, his own rating rose. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Hab's atmosphere is over 100 times as dense, so it turns to liquid at much higher temperatures. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that higher education was a waste of time for girls, he refused to pay a penny toward it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You can also name and write the F natural as "E sharp"; F natural is the note that is a half step higher than E natural, which is the definition of E sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My higher brain functions have mostly shut down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Penelope on the higher level of her room had heard the blow, and knew who gave it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, primitive languages evolved to distinguish between one, two, and many, and eventually one, two, three, many, but didn’t have terms for higher numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Greek laid the ice pick on the stove and rolled his sleeves higher. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above me, two ropes stretch across the room, one a few feet higher than the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He collapses to the floor, the flames climbing higher and higher all around him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We climb into the cab of Uncle Basil’s four-by-four pickup, which is jacked up higher than should be allowed for any man his age. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I climbed onto the table and then up into the lowest branches and then higher, hanging on hard. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I reluctantly turn away, adjust my backpack and board higher on my shoulders, and pull up my hood to cover my head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stumble up the path, climbing higher above the Pit floor, scattering stones with our shoes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But since you might be a higher order of some sort of being, maybe if you try really hard, you can pull an opinion from it without your head exploding.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The eagle abruptly turns, heads westward, flaps its wings, rising higher; then it dives. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s repute as a theoretician was growing, but the rise in Lawrence’s professional stature was on a higher plane entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But no one wondered if it had ever been possible to make higher education accessible to the genuinely socially disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Start with pieces written in C, and play them only a half step or whole step lower or higher than written. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dimple’s voice was two octaves higher than usual when she finished, so Rishi knew whatever she said must be a big deal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

According to one estimate, the corporate profits in military weapons procurement are 30 to 50 percent higher than in an equally technological but competitive civilian market. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach is what in sports is called a “red-light player”—the bigger the stage and higher the stakes, the better he is. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kohl’s expression shot to higher horror, as if this error somehow sealed the deal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since such stars with higher temperatures and pressures run rapidly through their store of nuclear fuel, their lifetimes are much shorter than the Sun’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others would begin at B-block, get turned off by the greater chaos factor—the younger, more transient inmates or the higher incidence of gang violence—and head back to A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you ask me, its people’s imperfections that give them character—a nose slightly off center or a dimple or one ear slightly higher than the other. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least Farmer knew that his protest was lodged and the higher authorities had noticed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to tell your father, but maybe you deserve to hear it first. You scored higher than any boy from the Sunderbans in English and Bangla.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.2: When two notes are one octave apart, one has a frequency exactly two times higher than the other — it has twice as many waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, he can see that much higher. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Like familiar terrestrial balloons, the deeper a floater is carried, the stronger is the buoyant force returning it to the higher, cooler, safer regions of the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the value of compatibility was much higher for everyone than the value of trying to maintain your own little private network. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You got it?” shouted Ron, raising himself a little higher on his pillows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A brick wall as high as me surrounds it and wild bushes grow higher. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead she whirled on her heel, hitched Constance higher on her back, and ran away. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He jogged a little and the wind lifted him higher into the air and pushed him forward. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The trees grew closer, the brush thicker and the banks higher. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he laughs, his voice pitching higher and higher. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Howard was willing to accept higher weight, to a point. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kohl pencil marks map the changes I'll make: higher cheekbones like her mother's, a button nose like her father's, and deep sloping eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It made the cost of getting the sanctuary back and running higher and higher, but if she debated whether it was all worth it, she didn’t let on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Teen Dreamers! This is your team captain speaking. It is time to get our Rumpelstiltskins in gear and run for higher ground. Ready? Okay!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hanging on edges, walking through paths, climbing higher or lower. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kit was thankful, as she had been so many times when the wind howled and the snow piled higher, that her friend was snug in a proper house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He put one foot on a higher step so he was bent under the slant of the door and tried to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walls, roofs, domes, and arches could rise far higher, but by establishing this one point of commonality the architects ensured a fundamental harmony among the fair’s most imposing structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The only way up is to straddle their legs across two adjoining boxcars, using the horizontal ridges on the ends of the cars to inch higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbs higher in the cloudless sky, we take a break and rest under a tree. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He thumbed one of the strings, nudged the tuning peg a little higher. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Actually, Vera had barely graduated from Norman Thomas High School and hadn’t set foot in a building of higher education since. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Louis never minded if his scientific staff had higher degrees or not: The important thing, as far as he was concerned, was that they had knowledge and were hardworking and dedicated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I can get up an inch higher than my man I can do something he can’t do, if I can reach an inch further than he can I can get to the ball first. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers, both black and white, patrolled outside the wall, and she assumed more stood watch inside in the watchtower, which stood higher than the walls. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drifted into a dream in which I climbed a tall tree whose lower branches disappeared the moment I scaled the higher ones. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But look at us now, the sure-to-drop-out kids are sure to reach higher education. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We scrambled from our room to the safety of a higher floor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had parked it on Fontainebleau, thinking that because the road was a foot or so higher than Vincennes, the truck would be spared. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The creek was bordered with marshes, but if you went a few yards back the land got higher, dryer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand higher and then higher still until Despereaux's whiskers brushed against his leathery, timeworn ear. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the new camp we had been working more in higher ground, and I thought the small cracks between my toes would heal. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me hopefully, as if he thought the higher number would make me feel better about it all. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The most important benefit of fiber, though, derives from the dramatically higher bandwidth of the signals it can transport over long distances. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

II When civil rights leaders first demanded the admission of minority students to higher education, academic officials could have challenged their critics to seek the more important reform of primary and secondary education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread his wings and flew away, higher and higher. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The higher your alexithymia score, the more trouble you have interpreting emotions and things like that. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I give you betteh one!” he said, indicating the higher price on the sticker. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex could feel the pressure in his ears as the elevator rose higher and higher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was rather small, with one shoulder higher than the other. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He rose higher and higher in the cold wind. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The close-growing trees which almost met overhead would afford more shade when the sun rose higher. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop suggests I start the song in a lower key and then make the key higher by the end of the song. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

To the left of the sun, and higher up, there was a single star, big and bright. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I already sense that the level of buzzing energy in the cafeteria is higher than usual, but I first hear the news when Andrew approaches me in the food line. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded an octave higher than usual. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they got closer to Atlanta, they rose higher into the air so that they wouldn’t bump into buildings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In addition to the smoke there was a morning mist in the air, a white finger creeping down into the valley from a bank of clouds nestled against the mountain higher up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed colder on the long ride back to Winterfell, though the wind had died by then and the sun was higher in the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Otis Bottom, hanging about halfway up the climbing rope, looking like there was no way in creation he was going to get up any higher. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They are full of ambition to do their higher problem solving as well, said Kulkarni. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky and the air became warmer, they began to look for shade. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, she sold it at auction, silly. At an auction you have to sell it to the highest bidder. No one bid higher than $225. It’s that simple.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countries with higher per capita incomes than North Korea include Sudan, Congo, and Laos. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All around him, on every horizon, the mountains reached no higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This will take you to the tonic one octave higher than where you began, and includes all the notes in the key in that octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“One of the worker’s shacks,” said another, higher voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car traveled a bit higher, then unexpectedly stopped, raising the question of how everyone aboard would get down if the wheel could not be restarted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He knew the mechanics of being a good commander: the tricks, procedures, requirements, and occasional gymnastics one had to employ to keep morale high and the higher echelons pleased. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hovered and swayed, but it went no higher. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although out here in the bright sun, which was reaching higher into the sky, the other students’ hair looked even blonder. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Ropes run across the glade, some low, some high, unstable bridges between trees, a crazy web, higher still. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The flame sped into the air, rising higher and coming closer and shedding sparks and smoke, and then fell with a great splash of fire near the gun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was still higher than Moch wanted to row, nearly a sprinting pace, but it was what he needed to stay in contention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In his conclusion, Nathan hypothesized that the higher levels in Phoenix were due to the presence of hospitals and cell phone usage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some microbial communities extend so deeply into the affairs of higher forms of life as to seem like new kinds of tissue in plants and animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open up the door to the attic, and the floor in the back of the little hall is at least two feet higher than it should be. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You see?” said Dumbledore quietly, holding his wand a little higher. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The suicide rate in 2008 was two and half times higher than in the United States and significantly higher than in nearby Japan, where suicide is deeply embedded in the culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When administrators sought to determine which departments were most guilty, they found that in each department a higher percentage of women applicants was admitted than men applicants. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon yesterday, when they reached the night coordinates, he should’ve taken one look and headed for higher ground. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A close parallel exists between the two, for most of the business leaders are connected with the schools of higher learning, either as teachers or directors. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I’d become inclined to hold Farmer to a higher standard than I did most people, including myself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We women at this university are particularly grateful for the opportunities afforded us for higher education in this regime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, Montgomery’s black leaders had hoped to keep using Claudette’s case in higher courts to challenge the constitutionality of segregated bus seating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I do the same thing one octave higher. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The man with the red beard looked over his shoulder and pulled the collar of his jacket higher around his neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They also knew radiation levels were higher beyond the ozone layer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh hello,” he said, his voice much higher than usual. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Higher and higher he climbed, through the clouds and into the night sky, and still the tower rose before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher and shone meaner and brighter, Edward became somewhat dazed. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The higher your rank, the more special privileges you earn, like unlocking secret pages and online games and puzzles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every octave has the same frequency ratio; the higher note will have 2 times the frequency of the lower note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The common citizens, who were in ignorance of the 245 higher policy, had a great deal to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky, he felt drawn thin and tight as a fishing line. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Anger rose even higher in Conor’s chest, thumping his heart against his rib cage. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

More of my pictures sell, for higher prices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In military language, grandchildren, a “non-com” is a noncommissioned officer, anyone above the rank of a private, but no higher than a sergeant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train was curving the mountain, the engine loping like a great black hound, parallel with the last careening cars, panting forth its pale white vapor as it hurled us ever higher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doon bent to feel the strands that grew out of the ground, almost higher than Poppy’s head; they were cool and smooth and soft, and there was dampness on them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it was Mom and Dad who’d first given me the courage to dream such a big dream and to soar higher than I’d ever imagined I could. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The humming, once a deep baritone, was becoming higher pitched. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You reckon that thing will get off the ground?” she said doubtfully, building my hopes higher. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Warm weather would increase precipitation, which would increase cloud cover, which would lead to less snow melt at higher elevations. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed higher still, and soon the roar of the burning rip in the sky filled my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was dark save for an occasional torch flaring at a turn, or beside some opening that led into the higher levels of the Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We have to get over a hedge; it is higher than we are. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting balancing act involves a ceaseless clustering of bonded atoms into molecules of higher and higher complexity, and the emergence of cycles for the storage and release of energy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, here at Base Camp—the mere toe of Everest—I was already higher than I’d ever been in my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then she spoke to those whose nerve failed them, whose glance would climb no higher than the long black fingers at her side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plantations were twice as big, twice as numerous, the fugitives more plentiful and nimble, the bounties higher. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My only American friend so far is an eighth-grade boy with a voice that's higher than mine, and he still keeps trying to move us into romantic territory. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I didn't think I could be bouncing any higher. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While I desired the privileges that came with higher classifications, I refused to compromise my conduct. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said, I didn’t really believe in any sort of higher power, The Picard notwithstanding. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was lying on something that felt like a camp bed, except that it was higher off the ground and that he was fixed down in some way so that he could not move. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The pressures to perform at the highest level in sports and academics were higher. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They had climbed on to a narrow saddle between two higher points, and the land fell steeply away again, only a short distance ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That swing set was still back there, weeds growing out of the little ditch I’d created from kicking myself higher as a little kid. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The tide was even higher than he had anticipated. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I just told—excuse me, warned—Twinkle that you guys can get a little intense about higher education.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Climbing the narrow iron stairway was intoxicating—going higher and higher, around and around, looking down, clinging to the slim iron railing, looking far far down onto the stone floor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists agree that higher animals—mammals like cows or pigs or apes—feel pain pretty much as we do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moves a step backward so he’s even higher on the rock now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Pearl tugged her armful of bed slats higher and led Moody into the larger bedroom, which held nothing except a faded but clean twin mattress leaning against one wall. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No titles were necessary, he declared proudly, because “there is no higher title than professor in the Radiation Laboratory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Little by little Alice subsided into sleep, and Malcolm wondered about pulling the blanket higher around her shoulders, but it wasn’t cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the drifts were higher than a man, but the stewards had been shoveling all day and the paths were as clean as they were like to get. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If that wild female hurts Esme ...” My voice had grown higher, a note of hysteria beginning to rise in it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gradually the performing range of the tune-carrying top line was extended upwards and higher, a process accelerated by the use of boys with high voices and even - heaven forfend! - women in some vocal groups. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Glossy black and beige tiles lined the lower two-thirds of the surrounding walls, creating a backsplash of sorts that was higher than the top of my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some, such as jaguars and tapirs, had migrated to higher ground during the rainy season, but there were still many animals all around them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Despite Sasuke’s protests, Hideo forces him to stand still while he wraps the blue scarf around his brother’s neck and tugs his collar up higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Areida is a higher order than you are, and I choose my own friends.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fern lifted her little turtle head higher instead of saying “So?” to her grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That is how these women produced manioc, and that is how their children ate it: with no apparent thought to the higher purposes of production and consumption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Captain didn’t want to move anything to the second floor, and he laughed away my fear that the water might rise higher than his front stoop. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But higher test scores are correlated with many other factors as well. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When she remained upright, Chaol shifted on his feet, and the prince glanced at his captain before lifting his chin a bit higher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The cost of this nontechnology is very high, and getting higher all the time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised himself up higher, looming over the ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He has not grown wiser, he has not gained knowledge, he has not climbed any higher.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our bug-out is a small A-frame structure—the mirrored side walls slope so that they reflect the higher reaches of trees, instead of reflecting people who might be approaching. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Frog glided gently, and slower, as the hills grew higher and blocked more and more of the north wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to hold Izzy to a higher standard than her other children, to demand more from her, yet at the same time to overlook her successes in favor of her faults. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud forest air was rich and thick to my lungs, which were used to higher, thinner air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I’d prefer less false piety and a considerably higher economic value placed on human lives. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the rent would be higher and so Theo needs a raise. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Hardly,” he said as he continued to keep the balls in the air, sometimes higher, sometimes lower, until, as abruptly as he’d begun, he gathered them in, and they rested upon his great slablike hands. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was up to Barry’s waist by the time they reached the stairs—and it kept getting higher. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I waded into the pond, shivering as the cool water rose higher on my legs. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Jenny raised her treat hand even higher, Chico did a backflip for his big finish. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then, as the sun rose higher, there was maize to pound into powder and the yard to sweep. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Instead of holding the camera level against her chest, per the instructions, Mia tipped it at different angles, knotted her makeshift straps higher or lower. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before them the mountains frowned, but their path lay in a deep trough of land and they could see only the higher shoulders and the far eastward peaks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But most of the geoglyphs in Acre are on higher ground, making them of little use for drainage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The plant grows fast—up up up—reaching higher and higher before my eyes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rumples in Papa- Nnukwu’s belly did not seem so many now, and his navel rose higher, still enclosed between folds of skin. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Justice thought there was not sufficient evidence to hold him for a higher court and a jury trial, he would immediately release him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that by tilting his wings he could make the notes go higher or lower, just as he wanted. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It requires a supply of water into the pumping mechanism, and the source of that supply must be higher than the top of the cylinder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You can’t bring your security card with you into the higher levels. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the boys were scrambling up to a higher rock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But both girls have expectations made higher by the trouble they’d had planning outfits for the escapade. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hall had made it very clear that I was to climb no higher until the whole group had gathered at this balconylike roost, so I sat down on my pack to wait. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled a little higher, dragging his useless legs behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the late 1960s nonwhite Americans clamored for access to higher education, and I became a principal beneficiary of the academy’s response, its programs of affirmative action. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Allen graduates went on to higher education, some to prestigious northern schools like Vassar and Smith. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Customs, culture, ideas about right and wrong all fall away under the pressure to increase production and get a higher return on investment. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He circled in the hollow under the branch, looking for higher ground, and then jumped again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The famous producer told him he was good in the role, even if his voice did crack once or twice in the higher registers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The second stage pushed the ship ever higher, and into low orbit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children on the jungle gym climbed higher to get a better view. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Catching up, the young woman flung her arms around its neck, moved her hands higher, and grabbed the antlers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Count Olaf looked down at Klaus and smiled a terrible, toothy grin, raising the wailing Sunny up even higher in the air. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pulled his broomstick up a little to take it even higher, and heard screams and gasps of girls back on the ground and an admiring whoop from Ron. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She only took the records through 6th grade, nothing higher. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the week they were together in Amsterdam, she says, he taught her so much and inspired her to be something higher, less ordinary than she had been. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was used to seeing him get higher and higher and smaller and smaller. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“So what do we do with her?” the taller one asked, his voice much higher pitched than Thomas expected. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

By the first of March the weather was warm, and the higher fields were dry enough for plowing. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the higher she flew, the lower the temperature fell. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see how much higher I had to go when my hand touched something moist. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was closer than it had been when he tied it, so the water was higher. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She heard herself scream, and then that was drowned out by the shriek of the wind as she soared even higher. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jess moved higher to a branch with a more plentiful supply. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As she moved toward the voice, the water rose higher and higher, to her knees and then almost to her neck. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

One with sunlight from the morning, higher in the sky, lighting a man’s back as he turns from one direction to the other but never fully around. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even now, when the competition stakes were becoming so much higher, she still encouraged me to train with dedication, then go out there and have fun. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jody continued on through the large vegetable patch where the green corn was higher than his head. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

His belly rose higher into his spine and he vomited water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To make races more competitive, tracks schedule “handicap” races, in which a racing secretary, also called a track handicap- per, assigns more accomplished horses higher weights, or imposts, than less accomplished horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time Deirdre has found herself higher than the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For half the year it is their principal forage, a plant of higher energy value than even alfalfa hay. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cities receiving their drinking water from rivers had a higher death rate from cancer than did those whose water came from sources presumably less susceptible to pollution such as wells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He rode northerly, and he followed the path down until he saw before him a huge high wall and the gates to Hel, which were higher than the tallest tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tall man in the rumpled sport coat hunched lower in his chair, holding his newspaper a little higher than usual. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Its students score a good 10 to 15 percent higher on their entrance exams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair, but the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Even with the fisherman discount, you’re looking at a five-thousand-dollar job. Minimum. Could go higher, I start tearing her down and find something else.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Navid had started teaching me how to do the cricket, which was a level of difficulty slightly higher than that, and I was getting better every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes grew star bright, my heart flew higher. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Throckmorton is the headmaster. That means he is the head. There is no higher authority. His word is law.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Callie higher, Mona lower, they clung with all four of their hands to the railing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soft moan answers me and I whip around to find a figure lying higher up on the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most known geoglyphs are located not near the floodplains but on higher ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There are bodies in here!” said Harry, and his voice sounded much higher than usual and most unlike his own. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision by enrolling at an all-white high school in Arkansas, enduring many months of cruelty and abuse in the name of a higher principle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would rise no higher than their fathers. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Each time he crosses, as the rainy season approaches, the river is higher and higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Logically all these things point one way! he has assurance of some kind that he will acquire some higher life. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They wavered, broke, and fled back; and then charged again, broke and charged again; and each time, like the incoming sea, they halted at a higher point. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sesame Street aimed higher and tried harder than any other children’s show had, and the extraordinary thing was that it worked. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they spoke, interrupting each other to make sure they got in all the details, the guard’s eyebrows gradually lifted higher and higher over his eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of the higher brain functions, some—reading, writing, speaking—seem to be localized in particular places in the cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The net lifted him higher and higher until there was an almost unbearable explosion of light and Edward was back in the world, lying on the deck of a ship, surrounded by fish. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Each candle changed subtly as it was put in place; its flame rose thinner and higher, taking on a golden- white tinge instead of the cold, threatening blue. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would still go back there, wading through the young stalks, but as the corn grew higher and taller and stronger, it covered over all of those memories. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"I'd have to put David higher on the totem pole than other white boys." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes were milky blue, one higher than the other, and though he smiled, he didn’t look friendly—more like his face was being peeled back in a wind tunnel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The taller the building, the more people you place on top of one another, the higher the crime rate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He asked for a price higher than her suggestion but lower than his first. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware of how our voices were a little higher pitched than usual, our words rushed. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of the first things we did together was scale the Ferris wheel, but that time it was me, not him, who compelled us to climb higher. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was now half across the street, but the roar from the beetle's engines whined higher as it put on speed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they knew of no protective measures, the toll was even higher than it would have been. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All societies have higher and lower, masters and slaves.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he gets to the center divider, he turns and faces us, then produces a camera and motions for us to hold our signs higher. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“In the old days a hundred throats were cut every Saturday night, and money was as rare as a rattlesnake higher than eight thousand feet, and everybody dropped dead from TB before they were forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death scream rose higher in the night. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When her turn came, she started climbing, amazed at how much higher she seemed with each step. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A red Maserati soared over the woods, glowing brighter and climbing higher until it disappeared in a ray of sunlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The birds lay over a photograph of sky like a scattering of petals, soaring away from a pebbled leather ground toward higher and better things. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The new sound wave is shorter, so its frequency is higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even if the war ended in six months or a year, a much higher salary even for that brief time would bring Dorothy that much closer to assuring her children’s future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

With each repetition the pitch of his voice climbed higher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If we fired them while we were pointed forward instead of backward, instead of reentering the atmosphere we would be boosted into a higher orbit, with no way to get down from it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass Spot between the two of us, as we climb higher and higher. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rose let out a scream and raised her thermos higher above her head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All the lower branches had been picked clean, but I spotted ripe, red capulfs higher up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon watched, somewhat horrified and somewhat impressed, as she pushed herself up and reached for the next highest bough, climbing higher and higher until she was several feet above him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerking his head up, Dad notched the boat speed higher immediately. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we looked out of the windows Momma checked her notebook, then announced, “This is the Appalachia Mountains. We’re over six thousand feet above sea level, this is higher than we’ve ever been before.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the side were two rows of six chairs each, the second row higher than the first. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He noticed his own voice getting hoarse and higher pitched from lack of use. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was starting to think that maybe I could use the springiness to help me fly even higher. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She bent closer and started to lift the phone higher. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His voice got higher and slower, as if he expected it to be rising into the church rafters. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All around her people laughed and clung to one another as they climbed higher above the ice moat, its surface shining below, a near-perfect mirror. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One surprising finding about mobility is that it is not higher in the United States than in Britain or France. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the next circle he was still too far away but he was higher out of water and the old man was sure that by gaining some more line he could have him alongside. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie heard seamstresses in Chicago and New York City had banded together and demanded higher pay and safer working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But today she hurried even when looking over the monkey cages stacked higher than her head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Going higher, into the mountains, I think. Congratulations on landing us safely, Mr. Scoresby.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When educators promised to open their schools, it was partly because they couldn’t imagine another response; their schools were rooted in the belief that higher education should be available to all. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like an eruption, a gout of fire higher than the walls of Asgard itself: terrifying, and unimaginably hot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sprays more and more cleaner and switches the wiper speed higher and higher, but the scat stays on. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Collins’s rating never rose higher than 2400, light-years apart in winning predictability. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Move on, to higher ground in another place. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe higher education wasn’t such a great idea, I thought. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain is a wave that rises higher and higher but never crashes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I aimed still higher and squeezed the trigger. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Lift that up a little higher," the knight told the mer-chant. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Push the green retractor butt—” He was cut off when the Berg’s engines roared to a higher pitch and the vehicle vaulted into the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch, for example. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The higher we go, the stronger it will get. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The shine of the electric streetlights lay pale here and there on the ceiling and on the higher parts of the furniture, but underneath around Gregor it was dark. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And because a mural is generally gonna be a higher quality of work. Gives the spirit more to play with.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then it fluttered up into the air, rising higher and higher until it was just a pale spot against the dark sky. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze caught my hair as I pumped the swing higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"I am sure," Miss Honey said, "that we'll be able to get you moved into a much higher form later on, but for the moment the Headmistress wishes you to stay where you are." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, I see one of his spies, a wrinkled creature with a nose like a parsnip and a back hunched higher than her head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The higher floors of the buildings were all dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was hardly higher up from the water than one would be from a floor sitting on a thick cushion; still, I hoped not to get wet so much. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hitched the blue silk dress higher on her wide hips and held the edges of the fabric in both hands as she arched her back and tossed her head. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hall insisted, however, that after just three trips above Base Camp, climbing 2,000 feet higher on the mountain each time, our bodies would adapt sufficiently to permit safe passage to the 29,028-foot summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, the Ghost shows me how to climb far higher than the landing where Taryn and I tarried the last time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The garden was surrounded by three walls built of rough stone, the other two being not much higher than the one I’d just climbed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was so tall its head was higher than the upstairs windows of the houses. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the most popular names given to baby girls in the 1990s among low- income families and among families of middle income or higher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Crimson and Amber buzzed at a higher tone. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The aim was to integrate higher education in the North. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain hopped down along the line, telling men to keep good cover, pile rocks higher, fire slowly and carefully, take their time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mage was gesturing, urging the flames higher and higher with broad sweeps of his arms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In feudal times an ineptness with sword and spear headed a young man for the church: in the Hamilton family Joe’s inability properly to function at farm and forge headed him for a higher education. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s not surprising: if one group has higher undergraduate grades and test scores than the other, it’s almost certainly going to have higher grades in law school as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These people were paying a higher price for Polyface food, and in many cases driving more than an hour to come get it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ben felt a slight quivering in his thighs as though sinew had turned to gelatin; his knees felt vulnerable, even collapsible, the higher up the ladder he went. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts into the sky, silently rising higher and higher into the darkness. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you are transposing because the music is too low or too high, decide how much higher or lower you want the music to sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

About the foresters bringing more rigs out to clear more trees, the enormous flatbeds that rolled across the field empty and returned with logs piled higher than the barn’s roof. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have the contacts to get a job at the teaching hospitals in Chicago where she would get better training and higher pay. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

At higher levels it became purple, and this purple afterglow persisted for what seemed a long time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The flames roared higher, leaping from one window to the next. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aphrodite made me hold the mirror a little higher. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The rubber will cool as you go higher. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Still, for all Grigori’s virtues, he is impulsive. He would rather target street kids than think higher. He lacks restraint and true vision.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is a hot, humid afternoon, and the river is livid with runoff from the fast-melting snowpack that still blankets the glaciers in the higher elevations of the Alaska Range. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in a multitude of tiny ways, he was of a slightly higher quality. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The capsule that is higher than yours becomes lower than yours and the capsule that is lower becomes higher. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was much warmer now, because the sun was up higher over the mountains. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was curious, actually, to see what had become of the campus, given that it was on higher ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As the audience on the platform listened in disbelief, a higher note came from the train as it approached, and a lower note emanated as it sped away. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and reminded myself that I still had beam and floor to come, and my start values for both those routines were higher than anyone else’s, with Aly’s close behind. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The state of Virginia, on the other hand, hoisted the Jim Crow flag even higher. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Groaning at the thought of all the stairs she now had to climb, she picked up her candle and yarn and hurried toward the comfort of higher ceilings, rolling up the string as she went. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He held his hand higher and tightened his grip, and they could see the tremor in his fingers exaggerated by the bar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He made several attempts to come back, but the flames were leaping higher by the minute. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Harry followed him onto a narrow dirt track bordered by higher and wilder hedgerows than those they had left behind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But in spite of the victory, the Times could not resume printing the Pentagon Papers because the Justice Department immediately appealed, and the injunction remained in place while the case moved to the higher court. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He is still at the bottom, despite the few who have penetrated to slightly higher levels. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight a little so the hemline rides even higher, now halfway up my goose-bumped thigh. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His smile would get wider, his teeth bigger, and every year the estimated heights of his climbs—written in ink at the bottom of the Polaroids, along with the date—got higher. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When we compared my videos to those of the elite gymnasts who’d scored higher than I had, it was clear that I needed to push the degree of difficulty in all my events. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then they’d hoist her up some other way, but she’d get halfway there, and her hindquarters would be higher than her head. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I fought against my weariness and the sun rose higher. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the kite rose higher and higher, Minli watched the coil of string in her hand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the load of blankets and started hauling them to higher ground, hunting for something on the hillside that had a semblance of being flat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was fatiguing, but nothing was sacred to the Kerch except trade, so she’d gone out of her way to make the risk much higher than the reward when it came to disrespecting her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The higher they climbed, the more the bleak land spread out below them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the voice repeated after a moment, quiet and strong and impossible to deny: “Come on, son. Come higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Hear me out,—but if I were to remove Joe into a higher sphere, as I shall hope to remove him when I fully come into my property, they would hardly do him justice.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She jumps higher and then up and down, up and down, both feet at a time like a kid having a tantrum. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fence was higher than her head and topped with spiky wire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand on the higher step in the atrium and he stands on the lower one, so we’re on the same plane. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She put the mirror a little higher so that the crepe at her throat did not reflect. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hated explaining to them why his prices were higher than at other stores, even the other Korean ones, though he always did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For example, C minor has the same key signature as E flat major, since E flat is a minor third higher than C. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That was a full point higher than I needed in order to qualify straight to the Visa National Championship in August. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once we got higher, I couldn’t look out the window, I was just too frightened. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though the top was no more than sixty minutes above, he decided to turn around, believing that he would be too tired to descend safely if he climbed any higher. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We both served on the boards of several nonprofits, and as much as he’d been stung by his defeat in the congressional primary, Barack still had ideas about trying for a higher office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He is on a swing set, six years old, going higher and higher until he is convinced this is it, this is the time he will fly. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was my fault for not making the fence higher. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, when one finds a corpse, these splotches appear on the higher regions, it is a sign that someone has moved the body. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then she went to get a gold bar pin for her dress front, to make the neck higher, and I went out to the porch for a drink of well water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her father raised his voice still higher, straining to be heard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The trees also act as a windbreak—when the grass is sheltered from the wind it can grow higher. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

To compensate for this, you must write the part a major sixth higher than your C part. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leonardo’s sketch is already implicitly drawn to scale, with a detail of the ratchet mechanism shown at a higher level of magnification. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A burst of wind chilled down my neck, and I zipped my jacket up higher to my chin. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbs higher in the sky, my stomach begins to growl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Emilien finally called me back inside, Djo looked better, propped a little higher on pillows, and with a kind of awareness on his face. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted my roots to journey farther, my branches to reach higher. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Actually Daniel is the First Attaché, but the French are all so much of a higher class, regardless of their position. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Schwarz was left alone as almost the only supporter of string theory, but now with the much higher proposed value of the string tension. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Competition for the favors of academia, industry, and government was more intense, the qualifications of the judges higher, and the standards of success more exacting than before. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She rode this thermal to the top, where the air was cool and could not lift her any higher. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth, heft Hector the Neglected higher onto my hip, and walk into the middle of the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It rolled and rose higher than the shoreline as it moved forward. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Greek laid the ice pick on the stove and rolled his sleeves higher. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby raised her sap balls higher, and I sighed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Big Ma scolded and fussed, running up the phone bill even higher. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She props the phone/flashlight under her chin, hefts Hector up higher on her hip, and transfers the hot dog bites onto a plate with a spatula. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I told Gram and Gramps a story that my mother had told me about the high sky, which looked higher here than anywhere else I had been. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a pigeon flapped into the air and stayed there, feathers intact, not only stayed there but rose higher and higher into the gray cloud, then above it, above the treetops, into the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They start at her fingertips and go all the way up her forearms and maybe higher, because I see the tips of them peeking out over her shirt collar. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon all three men were watching the light grow, the flames twisting higher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But further south the sun rose higher and hotter, and we ran out of food and water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the yunka man, his back to me, as he climbed higher on the path. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He says that a crucial aspect of breaking the bonds of addiction and finding inner peace owes to “a commitment to a higher power and spiritual awakening.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We would hear the rushing roar of water coming, and my dad would lock up the house and get us all out of there to head for higher ground. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The bonfire was enchanted, so the louder you sang, the higher it rose, changing color and heat with the mood of the crowd. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What I was thinking about was not a mill, but electricity. If I could build that dam up a few feet higher—there’s a good flow of water. It could run a small generator.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was no bridge here, and they waded across, for the water was barely higher than her knees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at him as though she’d never heard of a thing higher than ceilings. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are high, higher than a cathedral. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and about three hundred miles of surrounding territory about 1,700 feet higher than they would otherwise be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph and I shoveled by the house and the barns, and shoveled and shoveled and shoveled, and we had to throw the snow higher and higher to make it over the drifts. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It sounds higher; it has a higher pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Likely she would run through the fields dressed in sackcloth, hunting hyssop amongst the wild bulls, if not obligated to the higher plane of Motherhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes for a second and see her watching us both as the plane rises higher and higher into the clouds. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

To climb the rocky hills at the peak of which our neighbors’ porches rose even higher, their balustrades festooned with potted plants, the zinc overhangs sparkling in the midday sun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Injury rates were, by all accounts, far higher in the 1920s and 1930s; between 1935 and 1939 alone, nineteen riders were killed in racing accidents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Crown holds the chain up higher for me to see. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He did not come up the course of the Ar like most people, but down, out of the forests of the higher mountainside. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the searing flames surged and rolled higher along the sides of the shelter, his laughter grew hysterical. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“You know, there are worse misdeeds than those that are done for a higher purpose.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The boar had a similar squeal, but what we were hearing now seemed higher pitched, shriller, almost like... like if the boar had an angry girlfriend. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The next day the hills rose still higher and steeper before them, and they were forced to turn away northwards out of their course. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"But I got twenty points higher than you in math. Sculpting makes me do calculus without even thinking about it." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The higher they went, the stronger the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How it would be solved, he didn’t know, but he knew this: The stakes were higher than anyone else realized. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She fought her frustration as she worked her way up higher and higher, following the course of the drainpipe. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Ears popped, eyes bulged,” Shorty Hunt wrote home breathlessly that night. joe had never flown in an airplane, never seen a city from any higher vantage point than that afforded by his own six-foot-three frame. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To their surprise they came upon dark pools fed by threads of water trickling down from some source higher up the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was best to go as late in the year as you could, because the closer to winter it was, the scarcer beef was and the higher the price, you could get. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the other girls crouched to slap the stage, I tilted; when we were to cartwheel, I swayed, refusing to allow gravity to do its work, to draw the sweatshirt any higher up my legs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, my voice comes out higher than I expected, and the Hebrew words sound alien, the way they did when I first started trying to learn all this. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At higher frequencies, beyond the violet, is a part of the spectrum called the ultraviolet: a perfectly real kind of light, carrying death to the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lowland creatures, who had sought refuge on higher ground, were waiting patiently for the water to recede. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One way to make a living under these conditions is to reproduce before you are fried and hope that convection will carry some of your offspring to the higher and cooler layers of the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant “a very serious difficulty will arise when the attempt is made to accelerate ions ... to higher energies than obtained thus far.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He lifted his foot and went one step higher. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A moment later, I was flying higher on my Tkatchev than I ever had. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The men sat in a flat field, an orchard to the left, trees and men everywhere, higher ground in front of them. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And seven thousand feet higher still, dwarfing Ama Dablam, was the icy thrust of Everest itself, all but hidden behind Nuptse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn went first: with one hand she raised the boy even higher, his feet kicking in the air, and with the other she grabbed one of the roof bars and began to bend it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The night had become chilly, almost cold enough to lay down a frost, he thought; it must be freezing at the higher elevations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A falconer like Edgar’s father was better paid and of higher social status than a groom or varlet. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

They began jumping, sending each other higher and higher, and coming down on the board with incredible accuracy. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The acrobat tent looms higher than the tents surrounding it and the sign that reads defiance of gravity swings over the entrance only a few paces away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Also, no matter what note you start on, the note that is a perfect fifth higher has exactly one and a half times its frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Beverly threw the baton up in the air, higher this time. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The browse line on the trees went higher and higher as they sought food, and in time many more deer were dying of starvation than had formerly been killed by predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind might send me spinning higher and higher until the earth was a tiny ball lost among stars. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The higher version the boys sing is made up of identical notes to the men’s, but at a higher register; so there is a fixed, natural distance between the two identical lines of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the other side of this field there’s another fence, a higher one, and he scales this too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were other people going a lot higher and faster than I was. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gigantic stone blocks, green with ancient slime, rose higher into the mist than they could see. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But it was heavy, and with the zebra’s haunches being higher than its belly—and blood being slippery—the hyena started to slide into its victim. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re on a balcony at the very top of the tallest tower, one higher than the tree line. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At first I saw only the shoes and ankles of these women who were surging in through the door, but when I glanced up a bit higher I knew at once who they were. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The higher you are, the thinner the air gets. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Except that her voice was an octave higher, it might have been Dad, sitting there in his own chair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we saw in the last chapter, quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves, and that the higher the energy of a particle, the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the axiom of Archimedes rejected zero, which is the bridge between the realms of the finite and the infinite, a bridge that is absolutely necessary for calculus and higher mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Today we are higher than yesterday, and tomorrow—he, the compound figure of Wilbur Mercer, glanced up to view the ascent ahead. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emma felt this sentence would give people “an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his head into my cheek for support and lifted the wing higher, letting out small squeaking sounds of contentment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I almost looked higher, but somewhere off to my left Annabeth screamed, “No! Don’t!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pink bunches of fireweed choke the vehicle’s wheel wells, growing higher than the axles. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that you had become headmaster,” he said, and his voice was slightly higher and colder than it had been. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then we would use the Agena’s fuel and rocket power to boost us into a higher orbit, where we would find the second Agena, which had been in orbit for four months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice of doubt lapped against her, persistent and unabating, but she built her fortress up higher. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We are convinced,” he wrote, “that much higher energies could be obtained from a cyclotron of larger dimensions.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They followed her higher and higher, but they couldn’t follow her all the way. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The buildings were higher and the crowds thicker; otherwise it was little different from Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now, three hundred feet in the night and rising higher, while he should have been trembling, he was not. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of having a badge higher than the Chief Director’s makes me queasy. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There’s always one ear higher than the other, or too-short fingers, or visible eraser marks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Ben looks at me, his finger poking his glasses higher on his nose. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frankie positioned the bar a bit higher and pushed on it again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Charlie was a funny sight, hardly higher than a currant bush, but drawn up like a man in his worn boots and his father’s old woolen shirt with the sleeves rolled. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

That higher birthrate of food producers, together with their ability to feed more people per acre, lets them achieve much higher population densities than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun was rising higher and higher. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They soon found that it was impossible to make their way along the crest of the Morgai, or anywhere along its higher levels, pathless as they were and scored with deep ghylls. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Later, those studying for higher degrees were permitted to read until ten or eleven. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

McMillan and Alvarez returned from Los Alamos impatient to try out new approaches they had conceived to address that old bugaboo, the relativistic barrier to higher energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When that happens, an orbital electron drops down from a higher shell to fill the gap in the K shell. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The waves were higher than she liked, but safe enough. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu’s mother began to sing a church song—“the Lord has given me victory, I will lift him higher’’—which was often sung at collection time. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rani is so excited she tells me to hang Jay's cage on the tree, and then she helps me climb onto what she says are low branches, though it's higher than I've ever climbed before. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A misty landmass rose out the sea as we flapped higher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was watching cartoons, trying to drown out the teen voices by raising the volume higher and higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As in: Hypertension can affect all types of people, but you have a higher risk if someone in your family has had the disease. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

For such a driver, says Dr. Greenfield, the act of picking up the device becomes primitive, bypassing higher- level thinking. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How much does your grandpa pay to have you play for us? Can’t he buy off some place of higher education? I’ll chip in, get a collection going.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The ferns stood higher than my head, now that I was seated, and I knew someone could walk by on the path, three feet away, and not see me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fresher it was, the higher the price. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky, Sefia grew more and more nervous. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then the tones changed to something faster, with an angry urgency that soared higher and higher until it stopped. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rather, what seemed to appeal was the idea of the individual rising to a higher plateau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena tried to sit up a little higher, but found it too painful to even move an inch. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lift my legs higher, throwing my legs around his midriff. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When under pressure, each man had a tendency to become more controlling, and never was the pressure higher than in the winter of 1940. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he talked to me like a decent human being at church, my tolerance levels for Curtis have been much higher. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Basta’s knife was still at his throat, but just as the man was about to let the tip of it wander a little higher the Magpie seized his arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He tilted his nose to the sky, letting the oil lap higher, up around his cheeks, closing around his mouth and nose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cage had two floors, one level with us, the other at the back, higher by about three feet, that led outside to the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, bending down for her, he was higher than her house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the moment of expectant silence, the sandy-haired giant swam into the higher tone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Russell and Piper McNab, it was a case of boosting their importance ever higher in the eyes of the other kids. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this close the wall seemed even higher. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rang for higher wages, they rang for better food, they rang for open revolt, for patriotism, for common sense, and for a wholesale return to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not take her eyes from her brother as he leapfrogged from log to log, higher and higher. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn't just her ivory-white breastplate or silvery kirtle—she glowed softly from within, radiating a warm, comforting light that elevated her physical perfection to something on a higher plane. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When we walked out onto the university’s court, we were met by a packed house of students, faculty, parents, and friends clapping and screaming at higher decibels than I’d ever heard before. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It turned over with a wreurrrrrring noise, becoming ever higher pitched. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sooner we get some casualties, the sooner we can make some progress on this. I’d like to get in the Christmas issue if we can. I imagine the circulation is higher then.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Higher and higher Harry climbed; he looped and swooped, spiraled, zigzagged, and rolled. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As a result, small changes at a lower level of organization can lead to emergent changes at a higher level. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were only a few feet off the ground, but the plane got higher quickly, rocking back and forth as it climbed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted her torch higher, and the light seemed to shift and change. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted the rucksack higher on his shoulders and turned toward them to see what he could find. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Vanguard, after all, had managed to fly a yard higher than I had. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.12: The shorter the wavelength, and higher the frequency, the higher the note sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the train leans away, it is higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hold it up higher so that he can see what a disgrace his “weapons” are. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But his voice was a little higher than usual. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The heat shimmer and the distance made it impossible to see any details, but the other balloon was larger, and flying higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It mirrored the ceiling when Seed Collector held the light higher. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Biologically they do not belong to the type of organisms that cause disease in higher animals or in plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A curious but beneficial relation between fungi and the roots of higher plants is seriously disrupted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, many of them have starting salaries that are higher than their parents’ retiring salaries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jesper shook his head, trying to blink the rain from his eyes, muscles bunching in his back as he rose higher. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Tensions between our factions are higher than ever,” she says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We fly higher, and I’m out of breath as we head farther north, Connecticut maybe? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

By 1984, the whole central region of the park–several dozen square miles–was more than three feet higher than it had been in 1924, when the park was last formally surveyed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The help could involve police and detectives—as well as higher ups. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even lifted his tail and head higher than Miyax had ever seen him do, and, acting like the boss wolf, loped up her frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the pre-revolution Iran of the 1970s, higher education wasn't exactly a priority for women. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All foreign noses were higher than Chinese ones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It rose higher and higher until they could see that it was a fiery circle, first deep orange and then yellow, and too bright to look at any longer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cereals generate higher profits for General Mills than any other food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In general, the larger the size and the higher the density, the more complex and specialized were the technology and organization, for reasons that we shall examine in detail in later chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On average, girls test higher than boys, and Asians test higher than whites—although blacks, as we have already established, test similarly to whites from comparable backgrounds and in comparable schools. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Mazen's man has erred, trying to bargain higher. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Working a gallery was like sharing a crowded urban street with a higher- than-usual number of disturbed street people. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher the frequency, the more energetic the radiation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the bird retreated a little way off, and higher up in the sky. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

That voice is higher than the average male’s and clearer. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The American system of higher learning seems to have become a great equalizer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The first one raised her spear higher yet, and he flinched. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The birds swooped up then and higher into the air until they vanished. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Jennings didn’t score any higher on the happy subjects or lower on the sad subjects than his counterparts. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focused on the scuffed tips of my boots propped up higher than my head as they rested on the arm at the other end of the couch. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The crooning laugh of the Zany began, “Ah-ah-ah-ah,” and rose higher and higher into a wavering yell that went on and on, much longer than any voice could go on yelling, right across time. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suburban children, meanwhile, are in the middle of the curve, while urban children tend to score higher than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My voice rose higher and higher like a balloon with the string let go. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Any butler with ambition simply did his best to climb as high up this ladder as possible, and by and large, the higher he went, the greater was his professional prestige. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can tease out this 'secret’ natural relationship between a note and its higher self by illustrating the magic of musical pitch. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From our spot in a clearing between some dried Lydia brooms and spiny mesquite brush, we watched the moon as it rose higher into the sky above the canyon rim. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Old Granny went about beaming: it was she who had brought the two parties together; her reputation as a matchmaker would be higher than ever. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a reason for this, and it goes way back to when I wasn’t much more than a tiny seed with higher aspirations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jason changed the course of the wind, and Percy called up a massive wave, which lifted the ship higher than the fort’s walls and pushed it out to sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jonas’s mother for example, had higher intelligence than his father; but his father had a calmer disposition. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The self-image of the corps was remade, partly in the hope that a “professional” could command higher pay. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the doors rise higher, a barrel-like chest, each one different in design, with powerful arms hanging on either side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You are right—the ocean is higher,” said Crag. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spoke so often and so passionately of healing our country’s divisions, appealing to a set of higher ideals he believed were innate in most people. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Washington, he said, was wrong in telling whites that blacks didn’t want or need political and social equality or higher education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As they boarded higher up into the mountain the creek widened, cutting an archway of trees into the dense forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He raised the tray a little higher so I could see. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

To the right of me the other two girls raise their arms a little higher, hands shaking. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

These, before they toppled, had seemed to extend up into the sky to amazing heights, much, much higher than any tree she had ever seen. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to hurt her feelings, but one shoulder is higher than the other one. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He has one eyebrow that he can raise much higher than the other—much, much higher. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He watched as it rose, carried higher and higher by the breeze, into the trees where the monkeys now sat, solemnly observing the scene below. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I know what Madoc would say—to push the blade higher. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice was higher on the phone, and richer, like he was listening to it on headphones. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On her right, Coach Hedge shouted from the back of his steed, Guido, ‘Those are onagers, kid! Those things can kick higher than Bruce Lee!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To reach it without groping, he had to raise himself somewhat higher, which caused the back of his head to graze a corner of the lampshade. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He stood no higher than her knee, his faced pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he was dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands held a silver tray. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was the higher of two outcroppings of rock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flew higher, the child screaming and clinging to her waist with sharp fingers, and Serafina saw the Specter behind her, a drift of mist swirling on the water, casting about for its lost prey. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the creative challenge is much higher up the food chain—in computing labs, medical research, artificial intelligence, advanced programming for institutions like NASA, and Web design and development—all requiring higher education. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 3:00 p.m., however, still 700 feet below the South Summit, the wind and subzero cold proved to be too much for them, and the Sherpas could go no higher. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

One rose higher than the others, rolled toward me, and faded into the shore. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed suddenly to go into a higher gear. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice wasn’t pitched higher, wasn’t full of terror. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Figan knew if he was attacked by one of the higher ranking males, Faben almost always would come rushing up to help him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s moving higher! We need to get out of the surge!” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that if they were up any higher, at the conventional level for pictures, the smaller children wouldn’t be able to see them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the only Latino in their class, Alex wasn’t much higher in the social hierarchy than Dill, but winning a fight usually moved you up a rung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was undisguised greed in his thin face as he watched the younger of the two girls swinging higher and higher than her sister. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rutty road had not changed except that the ruts were deeper and the round stones stuck up higher. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the shape of her body he could tell it was the lady who’d spoke to them higher on the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It will sound basically the same, except that it will sound higher or lower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Matt dragged the metal chest to higher ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the skiff higher onto the sand and tied it to a post. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Endive and spinach escaped from colonial gardens and grew into impassable, six-foot thickets on the Peruvian coast; thousands of feet higher, mint overwhelmed Andean valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yeah, maybe he’ll go over and apply at Media One, where a friend works and the wages are higher . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s confidence in my abilities made me hold my head a little higher. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Father doesn’t hunt or fish because he has a higher calling,” Leah argued from her cot, as if I might not have thought of this. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, an experienced horn or clarinet player can play much higher and lower notes than a beginner. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“The conflict in Southeast Asia is in the process of moving to a higher level,” General Westmoreland reported. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The music may look quite different, but the only difference when you listen is that one sounds higher than the other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Halliday had put this Tempest machine on Tournament settings, so I couldn’t start the game any higher than level nine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mama could feel when rain was coming on, when something was wrong with me or Jay, when someone was trying to fake her out at the market charging a higher price than was right. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He urged them on to higher education so that they would be better equipped for this world building. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves had mounded the com up, higher, higher, higher, dark hands lifting the ears of corn, slight rustle from the ears, two or three hundred slaves moving around the great stack. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys leaned forward and turned the flame higher in the oil lamp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And higher yet is the upper world, the future, home of the sky spirits, the rainbow, lightning, stars, sun, moon, and condor.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This defense seemed to me to belong to an earlier time, before World War II, when higher education could ensure positions of social power and prominence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer pulled the scarf higher and prayed that Nipper was already home. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I lift my chin a bit higher, put on my most winning smile, and wave with my free hand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You must have everything you need, all together, before the winter really begins. For you I have something, too, and Joe will make a fence like this for them to run—but much higher.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford rapped for silence with the walnut gavel presented to her by associates on her appointment to a higher court. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd worried that he might score higher than me, but a series of recent events had set me at ease. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The child poverty rate is actually higher today than it was in 1968. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the typical black student’s school has a far higher rate of troublesome indicators, such as gang problems, nonstudents loitering in front of the school, and lack of PTA funding. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Hume took the beat higher and higher until the boys hit forty-four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spent most of my time in Base Camp brooding about how I’d perform higher on the mountain, especially in the so-called Death Zone above 25,000 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore’s body and the table upon which it lay: Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The moon had risen higher since she and I had been by the horn, and the light coming from it wasn’t as bright. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother screamed and pulled at Dustfinger’s hand, but he only held the note higher in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A herd animal such as man would acquire a higher survival factor through this; an owl or a cobra would be destroyed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

More generous financial aid policies will probably lead to higher tuition for those students who can afford the list price. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm struggled to sit up a bit higher, and found that although his headache had receded, a number of other aches, all over his body, had come out to claim his attention. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No question about it, some people want those higher numbers,” Shepard Krech III, an anthropologist at Brown, told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wanted the big attractions—the faster, the louder, the higher, the better. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun climbs higher and higher above the trees, heating everything around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May I hope, then, that you will give this matter higher priority from now on? There will be little point in our meeting after tonight unless we have that memory.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As she was piling the branches higher and higher, she saw, on the side of a dry piece of birch wood, the gray hoof of a mushroom. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Above that was another, higher and more distant, and still higher a third, no more than a flickering spark in the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I dared not stretch up to see anything higher on his body. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The study showed that the organic fruits and vegetables contained higher levels of vitamin C. They also had a wider range of natural chemicals called polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You are not striking the metal true. Hold your elbow higher and bring the hammer down smartly. Then it will shape as you wish.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Hector squirms and I shift him up higher on my lap, trying to keep him quiet so Connor will keep talking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His voice would lift way higher than necessary and he’d fling his arms all over the place temper-tantrum style, pointing to the walls and windows and pretty much everything else in my room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our homicide rate is also much higher than in those countries. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And then, clambering back to higher ground, he made another, much worse, mistake. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She heard him crying out to the birds as they rose higher, like ten thousand hot sparkles, so many red-yellow fireworks in the heavens, tugging the canopy like a flower petal, burning through the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for the circus trainer, decisions about social rank among higher animals are not al­ways based on brute force. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The higher he climbed, the lower the barometric pressure fell, and the worse his vision became. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She scrambled higher until she was at the top of a huge boulder that leaned out over the clearing. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their limbs wove through one another and creaked with every breath of wind, and their higher branches scratched at the face of the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We climb higher than I’ve gone before, until Will’s face goes white whenever he looks down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“No high is higher and no low is lower than what this game is, I’m tellin’ you,” Gaines said in the dressing room minutes after the game against the Rebels had ended. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies are somewhat idealized: less hairy than they really were, the muscle groups in higher definition, the skin luminous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This particular magic sword could only be used by an avatar who was tenth level or higher. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The eagle swooped down again, and the men climbed higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here farmland gave way to forest, the villages and holdfasts were smaller and farther apart, the hills higher and the valleys deeper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cart rolled slowly at first because it was solar powered, but as the sun rose higher and flooded the salt flats, it picked up speed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because terraces soak up more sunlight than steep slopes, maize can be grown at higher than usual altitudes on them; irrigation similarly increases the area available for maize farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wood looked different from here, the leaves seemed higher and much farther away, and the trunks were at an odd angle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever had scrambled to this higher ground when the lake formed was here forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle gripped the handles as the platform rose higher and higher. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But for the season as a whole, Lou Gehrig has a higher batting average than Babe Ruth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers worked well enough to write with a pencil, or hold up his glasses, but he could not lift his arms much higher than his chest. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening wind blew harder and harder as she climbed higher and higher, and several times Violet had to stop climbing as the rope moved in the wind. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The White Noise—Calm Control, the higher powers called it—was used to settle us down, so to speak, while it did absolutely nothing to them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We have a higher self, a capacity for transcendence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Seven knew the Gran’s home was high above the town, but it looked even higher from inside. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Timothy said he saw an arc of very black clouds to the west They looked as though they were beginning to join the higher clouds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mini pushed her glasses a little higher up her nose, and then reached in front of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie’s voice notched up higher as she repeated, “Mama, I don’t want to talk about it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hate to split up the money, but if it means a higher price for a fresh fish, it’d be worth it, right? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I estimate I can get 50 percent higher yield by using these tactics. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early to say what the final figure for the year would be, but it would certainly be higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rebecca stood at the microphone, and she reached down to adjust it, raise it higher. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

South of Rivendell they rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stumbled over a root and the cry that pursued him rose even higher. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But only slightly higher, at 19,000 feet, the ropes brought us to the base of a gargantuan, perilously balanced serac. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then I found myself atop a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was getting whinier by the second, the pitch rising higher and higher like a teakettle on the cusp of whistling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was that this sense of competition was not elevated to a higher level. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge is different-looking; it seems higher above me, more solid, as if the railings have disappeared or been filled in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Valentina climbed higher to try to avoid the damp cloud that was creating the ice. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Small houses nestled in a line, and the larger buildings, none higher than three stories, stood behind, like mothers with their children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet began to slip; pebbles and rocks began ringing beneath his feet; he looked up, trembling, in terror of death, and he cried: “Lord, I can’t come no higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The farther west the trail went, the higher it was; the pines were tall and thick, and brushy pinon and cedar filled the spaces between the big trees, blocking out nearly all the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth was sort of right, I would learn: A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet—not even as high as Everest Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My anger was strong enough to lift me to my feet and, one raised foot at a time, push me higher into the storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’ve just put me to shame,” he said, laughing under his breath as he lifted his dagger higher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It could be on this street—it could be several blocks down, from a higher floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Gaunt and bent and crooked, with a left shoulder half a foot higher than his right, he had a scrawny neck, squinty grey eyes, and yellow teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My shadow was higher than Luster’s on the fence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the world was a place of gently unfolding mountains rising higher and higher. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If Durham had earned a solid reputation throughout the nation, black people in the South held it in even higher regard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She don’t take care of me,” Grandpop snapped, his voice jumping to a higher pitch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Another mountain, the Black One, soared higher than the rest, reaching so far into the sky that it need barely whisper and Inti would hear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Tenor sax parts are written an octave plus one step higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To his shame, he had faltered during the last leg of their day-long climb up to the Eyrie, his stunted legs unable to take him any higher. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule’s weight was significantly higher, but most of that was muscle and didn’t show under certain clothes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We were maids and farmers, handymen and washer-women, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they were higher. I don’t know. The weather was bad enough to scare me witless, that’s all I know for sure.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Night had come, but being too tired to leave the sandspit, I crawled to a higher place where I would be safe from the tide, and again went to sleep. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I personally hate drugs. It’s too much risk, but the more the money the higher the risk. Tell this ...?” “William Irizarry.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nasser’s home, in the Broadmoor neighborhood adjacent to Uptown, had been flooded, and he’d come to the student association for shelter, knowing it was on higher ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before Mount Elgon was eroded down, it may have been the highest mountain in Africa, higher than Kilimanjaro is today. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In its more extreme forms it relegates personal rights and liberties to the higher authority of the state, which is “us” and not “them,” and it therefore has both communal and despotic implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Any note that is twice the frequency of another note is one octave higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On top of the more or less social tangle in which he found himself, there was a personal puzzle—for he put a higher value cm chastity than is fashionable in our century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quest must be led by someone of centurion rank or higher. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t look Very inviting,” the bug remarked, for, as they climbed higher and higher, not a tree or a blade of grass could be seen anywhere. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shmuel began to laugh, letting it start deep down in his belly and then rise higher and higher. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Murder rates are higher there than in the rest of the country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At home, he counts out his life savings, which is a higher amount than he had expected, and packs a change of clothes and an extra sweater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature continued sucking its paw, shifting from foot to foot, its bushy tail curled up over the small back, higher than the tips of its ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In some counties the percentage was much higher—in San Diego County, for example, three out of every four young people were charged as adults by the end of that first year. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now married life prompted him to place a higher value on his free time from fund-raising and managing the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He clicked a knob and zoomed in to higher and higher magnifications until the hazy sea of green turned into a screen filled with hundreds of individual cells, their centers dark and bulging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Diana started climbing again, this time faster as she focused on the sound of the sirens that grew louder the higher she climbed through the gaping hole in the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The marker is straight ahead—a wooden stake poking up out of the ground in the middle of a pile of stones, no wider or higher than a pitcher’s mound. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As they watched, it rose higher and higher, blazing in a haze of greenish smoke, etched against the black sky like a new constellation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, the more I talked with Jesse, the more misgivings I had about how he would handle higher education. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten feet higher and as far as they could see the muttering wall advanced before the braced-up waters like a road crusher on a cosmic scale. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

With higher atmospheric pressures, liquid water would be possible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer as they went back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As he heard the drums and the firing, he lifted his head even higher. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher the temperature, the deeper the color. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern lay side by side, their elbows propped up on the higher bed, while I sat on the lower bed. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin-legged thirteen-year-old moved swiftly around the side of the building to the iron steps that led to the higher floors. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The grass in the backyard is halfway to my knees, and there’s weeds higher than that. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As if in answer, the room suddenly filled with a low, whining snarl, which gradually slid higher in pitch. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Aru held her breath as the puddle rose, growing higher and higher until it was about the height of the seven-headed horse that had carried her across the Ocean of Milk. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hungry wolf would always attack the fat reindeer, the poor man would rob the banker, the serf would make revolutions against the higher class, and the lack-penny nation would fight the rich. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon sun got higher, hotter, and brighter in the sky. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My Lord,” said a dark woman halfway down the table, her voice constricted with emotion, “it is an honor to have you here, in our family’s house. There can be no higher pleasure.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as Silver guided them southward along higher ground to the west of the farm, almost all, now that they were actually committed to the adventure, felt dread and apprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The yelling pitched higher, and Moss just acted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One man did not get up, but lay awkwardly across the stairs, his legs higher than his head, and screaming hoarsely, almost inaudibly, as though in a panicky dream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gingerly, with one hand, she tapped out a simple, slow melody on the higher keys. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The higher I climbed, the harder the wind tried to take me, the sharper the rain against my face. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Musicians often find it useful to talk about how much higher or lower one note is than another. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The error rate was higher both when using a handheld and handsfree phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There are buildings in Chicago more than ten times higher,” said Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s gone crazy,” Mary Anne whispered to the others, who were in higher branches. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached high, higher, trying to stick the swinging rod into the barrel so as to set the ball snug proper. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The belly was bloating out as the sun climbed higher in the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was raised a little—since the ends of the lifeboat were higher than its middle—and so I could keep an eye on Richard Parker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Studies show that in single-sex schools, girls take more nontraditional courses like advanced science. They worry less about how they look, they’re more competitive, and they have higher self-esteem.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Attention is naturally drawn to high notes, so a part that is higher than the melody is sometimes given a special name such as "descant." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I looked over at the guard, then stretched a bit higher for a better view. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I cut him off, talking in a much higher pitch than normal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But after two rounds of bombings in the higher elevations of the mountain, the planes have their attention. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This was the backbone of the island, the slightly higher land that lay beneath the mountain where the forest was no longer deep Jungle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.1: A sound that has a shorter wavelength has a higher frequency and a higher pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

More shrieking birds swept in, descending into the lower branches, then flapping up again to higher perches in a cyclone of distress. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His fingers were higher than the ball and straining toward it so I pulled it down and stretched my body out and pushed the pill with my fingertips. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he had held a higher opinion of Seabiscuit, he had nothing to gain from a match race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing, she pushed her glasses higher on the flat bridge of her nose and focused on the captain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had cut two grooves the length of the board, and laid the board on blocks, one end a little higher than the other. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stakes were so much higher for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hamilton resisted the recommendation, arguing quite plausibly that such a specific proposal was inappropriate for an address designed to operate at a higher altitude. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This car had the wings of Mercury I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cut short, higher at the front and gradually reducing in an arch until it got to the back of her head, where there was little hair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The process would yield less current—that is, fewer particles—but give them higher energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The air was cold, breezeless, and stars sparkled through moss and waited for a bright half-risen moon to climb higher in the sky. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher we get, the fewer people there are, and when the street is empty, I speed up and pass her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the researchers put it, “Choice of chocolate cake was higher when processing resources were constrained.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was there when the sun, climbing higher, dropped a sunbeam straight though the skylight, like a ladder to heaven she was more than eager to climb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he was forced to pay his foot soldiers higher wages because of the added risk. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We’d run up the slides, spin on the merry-go-round till we were dizzy, and try to swing higher than one another. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ned pushed himself up higher, wincing as his leg trembled with pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I bet I got a higher score than you did,” Claire says, her voice cocky. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The branch he had jumped from was slenderer than it looked from the ground and much higher. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high socioeconomic status is strongly correlated to higher test scores, which seems sensible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Turner and Lizzie spent most of the afternoon skipping rocks into the waves—he was better than Lizzie—and climbing up to sway in pines—she could go higher. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Would that mean that a higher degree of political fragmentation than Europe’s would be even better? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, they have higher levels of polyunsaturated fats instead of monounsaturated fats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“This is much higher than our test at my house.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The land rises higher and changes in color from brown to green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its center was an octagon topped by a dome that rose 275 feet from floor to peak, higher than the dome of the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He thinks of himself as someone who is responding to a higher calling. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Right,” she giggles, her index finger pushing her glasses higher. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But climbers continued to swarm to Everest despite the higher fees. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that the ocean has gotten higher,” said Chitchat, “but I don’t see how that could be true I mean where would all that extra water come from?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider than the sky and higher than the Andes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some displays he took more time; the potters’ hopes rose a little higher with every second he examined their wares. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Boys in grade one through six will wear black turbans, higher grades will wear white. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On through the dark night they rode, ever slower as the darkness deepened and their way climbed southward, higher and higher into the dim folds about the mountains’ feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Higher and higher she rises until the whole sky swallows her up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Journeymen earned a slightly higher salary and usually escaped the chores. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now the cast is my feathery bird’s tail and I am using it to soar higher and higher. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But if I speak from a superior plane, that’s far more damaging, and contempt is any statement made from a higher level. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Guards try to yank the calla lily down, but I push it to grow higher toward the glass ceiling. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Ah...the size. The depth. And the depth in terms of the sun, too. As the sun gets higher in the sky, the stripers go deeper. That’s why we’re out here so early.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All of these atoms are wiggling about in space; the higher the temperature, the faster the atoms wiggle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon held it firmly down with a needle-filled paw and looked up at the darkening sky, where the black wing flaps of the cormorant were circling higher as she cast around for the other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes they’d reached the crest, only to find that beyond it lay another one even higher, and beyond that several more, whose tops were lost in the swirling darkness. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Real estate taxes in Shaker were higher than anywhere else, but residents certainly got their money’s worth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The missiles sped upwards, two or three times higher than the wall, almost out of sight; then they would plummet downwards, whistling viciously, to burst on the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Everybody wants to believe in a higher power. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the seller would just laugh at the buyer, but Hanako didn’t know if that was just to get the buyer to offer a higher price. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I yank my scarf up higher over my cheekbones as we dart between outdoor displays. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I do not mean to suggest that the freedom struggle is of a higher moral order than taking care of one’s family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I maintain,” said Horatio, “that a woman’s beauty leads her lover’s soul to higher goodness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With Hunt and Liddy convicted, reporters and prosecutors were looking higher, wondering who had issued their marching orders. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We were only a few feet higher above the water than usual, but the view was entirely different. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the walls grew higher wooden scaffolding became a necessity. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The proof was right there—no matter how high we climbed, there would always be someone a step higher, to stomp down on our faces. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were off to the side, up on a ridge of snow a little higher than me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As they climbed higher, the patches of weeds grew thicker, and they had to be careful not to get their feet tangled in thorny vines. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In 1793, the Reign of Terror, already intense, ratcheted up to a higher gear. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Three-quarters think the chances of moving up to a higher class are the same as or greater than thirty years ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Bush administration says that the tax cuts have actually made the income tax system more progressive, shifting the burden slightly more to those with higher incomes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then again, it was probably madness to be following a logging road to higher ground in a blizzard. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She spends her off time shuttling Christopher to and from school or to Little League practice in her new Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, an early benefit of her higher paychecks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was moving higher into the sky, and the cliffs of the mesa radiated the sun’s warmth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Rukku looks nice,” you agreed, holding your chin even higher than before. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Riiiiight,” she said, arching her eyebrow even higher until it nestled into her bangs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Time rose up a little higher on its insect legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Genie was back in staring mode as Grandpop lifted the jug higher and higher, a waterfall of tea all landing in the quickly filling jar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miig just looked at her, lifting one eyebrow higher than the other. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This is because their house sat higher up in the valley. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though his features remained neutral, Chaol’s shoulders shifted, and his chin rose a bit higher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Since the beach was small and almost flooded when the tide was in, he asked if he could camp on higher ground. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louder and louder by the moment, higher and higher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the excitement of hurling the ball, she couldn’t remember how to say the higher numbers, especially after she had missed every ball when the other team called “eight.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But now, with a helpless human being lying in the cot, one so dependent on others that her very existence had to be proof of a higher goodness, things had changed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The outer layer of plaster had peeled and flaked away from most of the building, showing ancient red-brick walls that were absolutely straight, rising up higher than twenty feet from the yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tally gritted her teeth and took them a bit higher. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It also got the attention of Harvey Love, the coxswain in the varsity boat, who frantically called for a higher stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The seven before me all graduated and most went on for higher degrees. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were moving higher up the crest of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The volume is already cranked, but Noodle cranks it higher. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As long as I’ve known him, he’s been this way: extra-vigilant when it comes to matters of money and ethics, holding himself to a higher standard than even what’s dictated by law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Caroline Mackenzie—an accomplished climber and physician in her late twenties—was the expedition doctor and, like Helen, would be going no higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She began to walk up it, step by step, climbing ever higher, as though there were invisible stairs cut into the grey sky. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The air grew cool as they went higher, and crested eagles flapped out of cedar trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind, on higher ground, stood a splendid theater, a compulsory feature in any Greek city, and to its west, the Emporion, a complex of docks and customshouses where every ship was inspected. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As a result, it has a high diversity of wild plant and animal species, higher than in the comparatively tiny Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and Chile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as it was knotted, Pima’s mother motioned him and shouted, “Get up into the trees! There’s a rock hollow higher up! It should give shelter!” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They reached higher than the oldest trees back home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have sold our an­imals to zoos in India, but American zoos were willing to pay higher prices. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there it passed over other rills, running down gullies into the Withywindle out of the higher forest-lands, and at these points there were tree-trunks or bundles of brushwood laid carefully across. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were jealous of Baba’s carpentry skills, which earned a higher pay than their work of laying bricks, and of how quickly his rice harvest had recovered. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a salutary tonic; with him, she could only inhabit a higher level of goodness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The forgiveness, rather, of those many persons whose absence from higher education permitted me to be classed a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If those two boats have the exact same power per stroke but one has a higher stroke rate, the one with the higher rate will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The stakes could be higher in some games than others, but Bull played them all to win. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“High tree near the Abbey wall, Chief, elm I think, much higher than the wall, lots of branches jutting out, just the job for climbing.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like walking up a steep hill with heavy iron boots, only you can never get to the top of the hill because it keeps getting higher and higher and the boots get heavier and heavier. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then Joe cut the water back into the river and sat for a moment longer while the sun rose higher and water seeped into the ground around his bean plants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I needed to be higher up if I were to see other lifeboats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The more he talked about how good it had made him feel—"with the skinny needle in my arm and the blood blooming in the syringe"—the higher his voice rose. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Rather than pretending that I was madly intellectual and thought I’d fit right in inside the ivy-strewn walls of Princeton, I wrote about my father’s MS and my family’s lack of experience with higher education. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted again, higher this time, then lower, trying to find a pitch that would pierce through the drone of the engine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Hi. Excuse me,” Ben says, his voice an octave higher than normal. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can sell it for a higher price on your own, be my guest. It’s going to take a long time,” the pawnbroker said to Nali. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The truck rumbled along through the dark, over bumpy streets at first, then, at a higher speed, over a smooth highway. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The musical effect of adding the boys is that there are now two parallel lines of music, not just one, since the boys’ voices are higher than those of the men. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Which was ridiculous, because he was sure there were about a thousand other nights they could both name that would probably have ranked much higher than this one, thanks to the Aberzombies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was higher than a basketball rim, maybe fifteen feet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s just as bad on a higher level, and I’ve given up any attempt to discuss these things with the professors at Beekman. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The more bouts you won and the larger the margin you won by, the higher your ranking post-pools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Then listen to me. Set your price much higher. In short, tender yourself more dearly, or you'll tender me a fool!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

According to a provocative insight by Paul MacLean, the higher functions of the brain evolved in three successive stages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as tens of thousands of private citizens and many government officials were concerned, these strikes were not simply motivated by hopes for higher wages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She passes within arm’s reach, her head slightly higher than his own. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But this only made me plead for more attention, to whine at a higher pitch, to beg extra hard to work in the fields with her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was that white people had driven the prices higher by “over-bidding one another” for the services of the few black nurses available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was a sadness about them, as if this old world was not their home and they were bound for higher ground. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at thick, twisted tree roots, I scan upward, seeing green extending higher, glowing against craggy granite and rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

This fixed distance between a note and its higher self is something that occurs in nature - we humans didn’t invent it, we just found it to be lurking behind all musical sounds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He raised his hands, and the tension on the bridge ratcheted even higher. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t go higher; he could only descend. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites go higher and higher. “ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The right fork is narrower with higher bushes on each side and even tho it’s night you can just tell it’s dusty. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some people he dismissed, some he ordered fined, or whipped, or set in the stocks, or held for a higher court. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.6: Remember that, no matter what note you start on, the note one octave higher has 2 times its frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They told pollsters that their primary interest was in making higher salaries. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her hammer even higher when Ernie jumped a small ditch and walked across the road into her yard, Genie following, slapping grass and dirt off almost every part of his body. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I would never be able to give up Leandro to some higher ideal the way I feel Minerva and Manolo would each other if they had to make the supreme sacrifice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused, her voice higher, lighter as a panic rose within her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As I’m going up the steps, wide steps with a stone urn on either side — Ofwarren’s Commander must be higher status than ours — I hear another siren. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she held on tightly, and that, apparently, was what the wind wanted her to do, for presently it lifted the umbrella higher into the air and Mary Poppins from the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bedlam in the street rose higher; more men climbed through trapdoors to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Six to eight inches. More on the higher elevations.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tests we took were designed to determine our eligibility for Mensa, an international association for those with IQs of 132 or higher. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I want to move higher into the woods, climb a good tree, and make camp for the night, but Peeta resists. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Galileo appealed to sensory experience, but sensory experience established, or so they claimed, that boats float higher in the water when far from shore, and lower as they approach port. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My pants were wet up to the thigh now, and I wondered how much higher the marsh line would get before I hit the riverbank. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to this theory “safety” was a higher value than justice, perhaps the highest value. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Word will get about as the sun goes higher of how I killed those lads. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrots absorb more insecticide than any other crop studied; if the chemical used happens to be lindane, carrots actually accumulate higher concentrations than are present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A few days later I learned that my brother and I were to be transferred to the factory's toolmaking area, which required higher skills and also meant we would be with our father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Escaping the pull of a town like Calypso requires much higher Velocity but is easier with money and a car. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And once hospitalized, they got fewer pain medications, and had higher mortality rates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The inn was at a higher altitude than the town of Cucaracha, and the snow lasted longer. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the doctrine that the seas are higher than the land survived well into the second half of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher and higher, burning away the leftover clouds, and the sky went from lavender to too-bright blue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His laughter rose higher and higher until he almost did throw up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she has to use a ladder even to get to the higher shelves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the immense energies available to Lawrence via the cyclotron were hopelessly out of reach of their equipment, they opted for lower energies but a higher proton current—less power but more particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling on one knee, looking down from a higher rock which he held with both hands; his other leg stretched down to Ralph's level. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He crouched by the canoe and pulled the blanket higher over Alice’s shoulders, tucking it around Lyra’s head, making sure she could breathe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was standing in it, I’m sure it would be higher than my knees. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered standing in the Brazilian rain forest while on his voyage and being stirred by its beauty, moved to think of a higher power. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octaves are named from one C to the next higher C. For example, all the notes between "great C" and "small C" are "great." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She sits in the back row alone—knees raised to her chin, high-waters rising higher—lonely, quiet, staring out the window. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This time the competition was in Colorado, and I had much higher hopes than how I fared the year before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sarai’s dead face, upside down, was higher than his upturned one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself strolling on a smooth, rounded mountain summit, suspended between two higher peaks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Adah would, of course, say something more droll, such as “Why, Rachel, your interest in personal hygiene has truly become a higher calling.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When she had climbed higher than the chinaberry trees in her back yard she looked down, was dizzy, and looked up the rest of the way. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She’d heard that many people were leaving Birmingham for the North, for the higher wages they said they could earn in northern cities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But, sir,” I said, “even without my mother tongue, my average comes out higher than a second-class pass. So how could I have failed?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was responsible for tides, so it made sense if it was closer to Earth, the tides would be higher. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A typical choral arrangement divides women into higher and lower voices and men into higher or lower voices. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He would have to remember that he was no longer in Winterfell, where only the king stood higher; here, he Was but first among equals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her family might not rise higher, but they would no longer sink lower. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton had her hands clasped tightly in front of her and her face was still tilted, higher now, and her white lips were parted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ucho lifted the stick higher and tried to move my hair away from my face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The hyena’s roar filled the higher range of what my ears could hear, Orange Juice’s bass roar filled the lower range, and somewhere in between I could hear the cries of the helpless zebra. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With little higher education, Zinaida had known all along that she wouldn’t be flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were black and bushy looking, and the ones on her left eye were higher up and sloped in a different direction. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preachers and congregations jumped even higher and shouted even louder than the Baptists I had known. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—" In his anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies: each wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last outrage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Silently, the emissary and the soldiers watched the paper lift higher and higher in the night sky, until it overlapped the moon and disappeared. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

You joined forces to fight for a higher cause. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“See you soon,” said Mom, her voice sounding a little higher than normal. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If he came over the ridge, as he had to do, he must have seen the valley and the green trees, because the ridge is higher than Burden Hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He hung for a moment, his armpit against the spar, and knew that his light was futile against the fog; nevertheless he adjusted the flame higher before clambering down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The “dynamics of the vehicles involved in the accident strongly indicate that the vehicles had much higher levels of traction than would be available in a hydroplaning situation.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A tear falls down Mom’s cheek, and her voice is higher than Javier’s. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When it finally began to shed its weight and loft higher, it lost its golden hue, and the light became grayer. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“They always tell us that in football practice. It slows down the flow of the blood, especially if you can raise it higher than your heart.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She held the tray up higher, and the candle shed its weak light on the towering pile of spoons and bowls and kettles. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Farther to go yet. This is a bad place to open. Better place higher up.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then would come the reign of One who was higher even than Odin and beyond the reach of evil— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron raised the sword still higher, and as he did so, Riddle’s eyes gleamed scarlet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He watched as the scenery began to change, and the rolling steppe gave way to low grassy hills and then to higher land, with the occasional gorge or cataract; and still the boat steamed south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because Athenian bulk exports to Egypt would have been far more limited than her imports, Alexandrian cargo ships would come home far higher in the water than when they set out. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As they got higher, the weeds got thicker. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

David Leonhardt set out to pursue the role of class in higher education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I shiver, tug my scarf up higher over my mouth, and wipe a few snowflakes from my lashes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Isolated but vivid tragedies involving a few people should not blind us to the fact that myriad prosaic activities may involve a much higher degree of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I swear to you, my ambitions aim no higher than your heart,” he said with feeling. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The more tests given—and the more students enrolled in rigorous courses—the higher the ranking a school achieves. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Margaret’s high-pitched voice soared even higher with nervousness as she delivered the message—“Lady Constance requests your presence in the dining room— as soon as you can, she says! Oh my, oh my!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The hall was the grandest space she had ever been in—higher roofed than any church, wider than most fields, filled with hundreds of diners at scores of long tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Head voice requires placing the sound higher up in the “vocal mask” or the face, as if singing from the eyes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I had no place to go except higher up the hill and into the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If a ban were on the way, they’d hear shouts from all sides: “Ban! Ban! Tidal bore coming! Run for higher ground!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the south loomed the Rocky Hill, gray boulders clearly visible along the top, and beyond it the higher eminence of the Round Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, head forward, eyes fastened on a rock, his arms higher than the pines, his hands holding a melon bigger than the sun, he paused an instant to get his bearing and secure his aim. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most blacks simply couldn’t afford tuition for higher education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No company’s fee was higher—indeed, some of his competitors charged a third as much. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Flying Coach would climb higher and higher, until the air turned cool and crisp. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In other words, there are two waves of the higher C for every one wave of the lower C, and three waves of the third-harmonic G for every one wave of the fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She held her breath as its octaves rose, the tune climbing higher and higher until it reached an impossible crescendo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If Vincent can win Kee, he writes, his art will continue to reach a “higher artistic level, without her I am nothing, but with her there’s a chance.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In 1933, Austin and a small group of supporters attempted to enroll a black student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the first legal challenge to segregation in higher education in America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Turner looked at them through his window; he could almost see them puffing: In the dark, the cranked horn of a doryman sounded, and then another, higher pitched. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The structure crumbles, but she launches herself higher, flying through the smoke and fire. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even prices higher than any in memory couldn’t tempt farmers into the city with fresh food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I had been too frank about returning to the college, maybe he was against our having a higher education . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The thought of dropping into the center of a whirlpool only makes me cling tighter and climb higher until I’m at his shoulders. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After several misses, I gently push myself higher, until I can grab a skinny limb and pull myself up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wote well ye are of an higher blood than I wend ye were.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds, some snakes, any beast that could find higher ground ahead of the rising tide. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the end of autumn they had stacks of pinon higher than the house, and that was the only heat they used. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames grow steadily higher, staying close to the chair, licking around the wood, though it does not appear to be burning. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Frightful had been sitting on my shoulder through all this, but now the smoke was bothering her and she hopped to a higher perch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His starting salary as a support tech was far higher than his father’s as a fire inspector in Idaho. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses stacked on top of each other, higher and higher. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The fire’s advancing glow is brighter, higher than ever. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There had obviously once been some sort of stairway or porch at the threshold, because the bottom of the doorway was at least four feet higher than the ground where we stood. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Buildings soared up higher than Dicey could see out the window. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swallow a groan and raise the scythe a few inches higher. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Get back! Stay away from me!” the woman shrieked as she raised her cane higher. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the tray up higher so that the light from the candle shone directly on Roscuro and the golden spoon on his head and the blood-red cloak around his neck. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I knew he’d jump about two feet higher than I could. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Jordan Rylance, who has better teeth than I do and can sing higher, gets cut, why would anyone want me around? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Tropical climate. Trade winds. This place probably has a monsoon season. We should scout out some higher ground just in case of flash floods.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sefia shrugged her pack higher on her shoulders, feeling the weight thump against the small of her back, and weaved seamlessly into the crowd. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A sentence Etienne once read aloud returns: Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Looks like a patch of ivy,” she said, hitching Constance higher on her back. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer scrambled higher, but there was nowhere else to go. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there really is some sort of higher power that can help us, I thought. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By binding small, flat pieces of wood to newborns’ foreheads, they pushed up the soft infant bones, making the skull longer and higher than normal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the more accurately one measures the position, the shorter the wavelength of the light that one needs and hence the higher the energy of a single quantum. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through most of his life he had resented the appearance of higher command. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took deeper breaths and rode faster, making puddles splash higher and leaving tiny tire tracks on the dry linoleum. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had probably completed biology by now, she guessed, and would be studying higher mathematics, or astrophysics, or biochemistry, one of the subjects that was whispered about, when they were young, as incomprehensibly difficult. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So they set off across the floor of that great desolate plain, and the harpies wheeled higher and higher overhead, screaming and screaming. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next day he brought a higher, narrower log. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I said no to the assignment only because I thought it would be unbearably frustrating to spend two months in the shadow of Everest without ascending higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed showing off to little kids: “Look, I can’t lift my arm any higher than this.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could hear frustration pushing my voice higher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Martin stretches his arms up against the frame of the doorway like he’s hanging from monkey bars, and the top of his uniform rides up even higher. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They are much higher than Bailey had suspected, even though they have not reached the top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What was happening with the black nurses was a classic example of demand exceeding supply, resulting in higher prices, and nothing more. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

My odds of living through this are way higher now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoisted my backpack higher on my shoulder. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When Mami was angry, she argued in a loud voice that reached higher pitches the more nervous she became. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sir Fabian heaved Jeanne higher to get a better grip on her. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And it was also here, unfortunately, that the Mud People were most in tune with magic, which resulted in a far higher People-sighting rate than you got anywhere else on the planet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Doha was small, he always thought seonsaengnim only meant schoolteacher, but it actually meant someone with a higher educational degree. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She’s noticed the higher she makes the y axis coordinate, the steeper the line gets. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The toll would have been much higher except that it was a Sunday. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The reason for this is that our higher speed and higher altitude combined to make things go by the window at the same rate as if we had been going lower and slower. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But near the top, where the rocket climbs higher than the swings and the trees, moonlight hits the metal bars all the way up to the peak. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With a sharp sense of style, they stripped Joel Moskowitz’s shoe store of its higher- priced and more fashionable models, leaving only some orthopedic offerings and a few Florsheims. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The stakes are higher now. It matters to me what your answer is.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I arrived back at our own camp to find Rob, Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, and Scott Fischer’s doctor, Ingrid Hunt, engaged in a tense radio conversation with someone higher on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It said that Governor Thomas Corbett had proposed that the state’s institutions of higher learning should consider closing their budget shortfalls by drilling for natural gas on their campuses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I dug my little claws into the hairy skin of the man's leg and scuttled upwards, higher and higher, past the calf and past the knee and on to the thigh. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Chunking is not just a trick for improving memory; it’s the lifeblood of higher intelligence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“That needs a higher journalistic skill set—someone in the market with contacts, who knows who the best industry analysts are and has taken the right people to lunch,” said Glocer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Usually with a poor crop, we at least get the higher prices. Only thing that staying the same right now seems to be the mortgage payment.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the woods, I climbed an oak, singing my mothers song: Oh, don’t fall in love with a sailor boy, a sailor boy, a sailor boy—I climbed higher and higher. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looked younger than the other guests, always wore a pair of shorts, and had bushy hair with a parting at the side that stood higher than Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Sandy Hill Pittman, and nobody on the mountain cut a higher profile or generated as much gossip. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley took a small drawstring bag from his pocket, untied it, took a pinch of the powder inside, and threw it onto the flames, which turned emerald green and roared higher than ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he went up higher, he could see the whole world. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He held it higher but the heat was worse and finally he moved it to the side a bit and there it seemed to cook properly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most often, before blowing the tunnels, they were ordered by higher command to search them, which was considered bad news, but by and large they just shrugged and carried out orders. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the count of three, I’m going to lift you even higher. Stuff those stars back up in that sky.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z