...He hoped that imminent danger might be revealed to him, like those phosphoric lights of the tempest which show the sailors the altitude of the waves against which they have to struggle... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...It must have been a good half-hour later before I, atmy greater altitude and with far worse going, reached the same rim...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Even the rocky banks of the Leeambye below Gonye, and the ridges bounding the Barotse valley, are not more than two or three hundred feet in altitude over the general dead level...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...These hills seemed to my men of prodigious altitude, for they had been accustomed to ant-hills only...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The eastern side of the range is much more sloping than the western, covered with trees, and does not give the idea of altitude so much as the western...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Can it be that they thusassemble in groups in the hills for the sake of accumulated warmthat the cool altitude of 4000 feet?...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
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This rhinoceros seems to be found at all elevations, like theSumatran one which was found by General Fytche at an altitude of 4000feet; it is much more of a forester than the last...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Bats of this species apparently are common in the Caribbean lowlands ofNicaragua; the highest altitude at which we have taken specimens is 660meters...
J. Knox Jones 「Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country」
...They are said to flysometimes at a height of from three and a half to five miles, andhave been seen to cross lofty mountains in Central Asia withoutincreasing their altitude...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The monks who go to the Hospice volunteer for that work, knowing fullythat five years up there in the altitude and intense cold meanpractically the end of their lives...
Forrestine C. Hooker 「Prince Jan, St. Bernard」
...I took special noteof one fellow, who came from the south at a great altitude, and wentdirectly over the wood...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...The holm-oak and the elm give her a greater altitude...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The dusky shrew was taken at a higher altitude (4000feet, on Mt...
Rollin H. Baker 「Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway」
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