Meanings of highwater in English

The behavior of this crowd was highwater mark in the development of Southern character.

The evening John Freeland came to dinner was the highwater mark of his alarmed amusement.

This day, the rowdy waves slapped up in sets over the white-dark border of the highwater line.

The "highwater mark of the Rebellion" is here: along these banks its uttermost ripples died.

The season of 1906-07 marked highwater in the artistic activities of Mr. Conried's institution.

It was the same in 2008, still the highwater mark of housing unaffordability in all but one Australian capital.

The highwater mark was reached in April, when 800,000 tons of shipping were destroyed.

There are no common griefs, and death's a common grief, that can be drawn above that tide's highwater mark.

Now, at that time and for centuries afterwards, the highwater marks of history were indicated by the wars it recorded.

She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping sullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick.

When a finback washes into The City with the turning highwater, a boy is discovered in the belly of the whale.

As D&D creator Gary Gygax's flaming funeral barge heads across the Styx, we of the highwater clan must accept that times have changed.

Ordinarily these received $476 a year, but one professor of the classics reached the highwater-mark with nearly $800.

Her newly opened eyes fell on the Reverend Highwater.

Linguist (13) should roll forward here and settle on the outside of the likely leader Hell Or Highwater.

I was listening to the Reverend Eugene Highwater describe the "endless bounty provided the righteous" when Katy stumbled in and threw herself onto the couch.