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Significados de low-water mark en inglés

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An extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything.

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        Uso de low-water mark en inglés
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        The influence of the French conqueror never extended beyond low-water mark.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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        An allusion to the custom of hanging pirates at low-water mark.
        Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
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        He always knew the precise moment, the outmost low-water mark, of a bargain.
        Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
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        The fort at this post stands two hundred feet perpendicular above low-water mark.
        The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia an...
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        In October the Vicksburg gauge usually hovered not far above zero, a low-water mark.
        Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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        From yesterday's low-water mark it has now reached the highest level I have seen yet.
        Conquest of the Useless
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        Hanged at White Point, Charleston, in 1718, and buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
        The Pirates' Who's Who / Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Dea...
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        The night was only needed to float the boat down as far as low-water mark.
        Lost in the Fog
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        During this period the river varies from twenty-five to forty feet above the low-water mark.
        Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
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        He recorded one spot where the high-water mark was 115 feet above the low-water mark.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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        This construction would not be suitable below low-water mark.
        The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
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        The tide of fortune having touched low-water mark, the usual gentle stage of improvement set in.
        Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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        Plenty more barely rise above the low-water mark.
        The Irish Times
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        We had arrived at precisely the low-water mark, when the channel was at its most treacherous.
        The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
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        Law and order stopped short at low-water mark.
        The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred...
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        Buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
        The Pirates' Who's Who / Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Dea...
        Translations for low-water mark
        portugués
        nadir