high
/haɪ/ adverb A2- In or to an elevated position. · How high above land did you fly?· The desks were piled high with magazines.
- In or at a great value. · Costs have grown higher this year again.
- At a pitch of great frequency. · I certainly can't sing that high.
Comparative higher · Superlative highest
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Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch’s castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
I have dined many times with him and the Count of Morcerf, so you see I have some high connections and were I to cultivate them a little, we might meet in the same drawing-rooms.”
A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
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