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  • Ron yelled, swinging the steering wheel around; they missed the dark stone wall by inches as the car turned in a great arc, soaring over the dark greenhouses, then the vegetable patch, and then out over the black lawns, losing altitude all the time.†   (source)
  • She lost altitude; she lost resilience.†   (source)
  • You know that guy who just set the new high-altitude freefall jump, from the Red Bull balloon?†   (source)
  • Each of the rooms of the Metropol offered an entirely different perspective—one that was shaped not only by altitude and orientation, but by season and time of day.†   (source)
  • As the plane took off and rapidly gained altitude, she wondered if they were as excited as she was.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, altitude sickness kept me from the top.†   (source)
  • I saw a squadron of Sixer gunships flying in formation, zooming south at low altitude, their sensors scanning the surface as they went.†   (source)
  • If the horizon was two and a half miles away at an altitude of five feet, how far away was it when I was sitting against the mast of my raft, my eyes not even three feet above the water?†   (source)
  • The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high-altitude wind.†   (source)
  • The altitude hits you pretty hard.†   (source)
  • This poor animal's like a human being at ten thousand feet altitude.†   (source)
  • Altitude sickness.†   (source)
  • Deliberately, almost lazily, the bombers shed altitude.†   (source)
  • IN THE EARLY evening, high-altitude clouds in the western sky formed a thin yellow wash which became richer over the hour, and then thickened until a filtered orange glow hung above the giant crests of parkland trees; the leaves became nutty brown, the branches glimpsed among the foliage oily black, and the desiccated grasses took on the colors of the sky.†   (source)
  • "Altitude one thousand meters," someone said.†   (source)
  • Silently she tried to let him know she was okay, that she was still breathing the air in, coping with the altitude.†   (source)
  • A few months earlier, he had been given a flight safety award by his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet engine failure at low altitude.†   (source)
  • She could feel the altitude more now.†   (source)
  • "A real pleasure, feller," it burbled; "we are currently in orbit at an altitude of three hundred miles around the legendary planet of Magrathea."†   (source)
  • The controls refused to respond, and they started to lose altitude.†   (source)
  • The moon seemed huge from this altitude, the craters on its surface easily distinguishable.†   (source)
  • Flight 196 parted company with the ground at 7:28, and at 7:31, as it gained altitude, the thought-pistol went off in Dick Hallorann's head again.†   (source)
  • As much as the bird pounds its wings, it cannot keep up with the flock, let alone maintain altitude.†   (source)
  • With two powerful flaps she gained altitude.†   (source)
  • I know there are all these videos of people doing stunts and tricks and having a grand ol' time doing HALO (high altitude, low opening) jumps.†   (source)
  • Their lifters could fail but, even so, the residual charge in the EM generators would allow the aircar to descend safely from any altitude.†   (source)
  • The massive blast effect of the bomb means it cannot be released below an altitude of 6,000 feet.†   (source)
  • Burnham and Root realized that Jenney's innovation freed builders from the last physical constraints on altitude.†   (source)
  • They laughed and held on tight, feeling the cold slap of wind and altitude, soaring, thinking It's over, I'm gone!†   (source)
  • When she pounds the release button, it takes off from an altitude of about one centimeter, angling slightly upward, across the street, under the floor of the bimbo box, and sucks steel.†   (source)
  • Heinz Haber, another key Tomorrowland adviser — and eventually the chief scientific consultant to Walt Disney Productions — spent much of World War II conducting research on high-speed, high-altitude flight for the Luftwaffe Institute for Aviation Medicine.†   (source)
  • I watch light climb into the rounded summits of high-altitude clouds.†   (source)
  • Lost in the guileless crowd that sang the national anthem as the balloon gained altitude, Florentino Ariza felt himself in agreement with the person whose comments he heard over the din, to the effect that this was not a suitable exploit for a woman, least of all one as old as Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • Paul looked down from their two thousand meters' altitude, saw the wrinkled shadow of their craft and escort.†   (source)
  • You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.†   (source)
  • Thinking any moment the plane would dive and I would hear the roar of its engines across the cay at low altitude, I stood with Stew Cat a few feet from the sloshing surf.†   (source)
  • The top of his head reached roughly the altitude of Farmer's bony shoulders.†   (source)
  • Some old men left Los Angeles wearing Hawaiian shirts and Panama hats and stepped off the bus at an altitude of 4000 feet, with nothing available but sagebrush and tarpaper to stop the April winds pouring down off the back side of the Sierras.†   (source)
  • German rockets exploded all around us at high altitude, the shock waves shaking the plane.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what cruising altitude is, and she doesn't explain it, in true Zoe fashion.†   (source)
  • She is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger-colored, gingery-tempered woman of unrevealed ("That's for me to know, and you to guess") but promptly revealed opinions, most of which are announced in a voice rooster-crow altitude and penetration.†   (source)
  • Both the altitude of Tehran and the metric units on the oven controls played havoc with my baking abilities.†   (source)
  • Home Sweet Home Our pretty little place on a hilltop acre, native sandstone and imported compost, Mom's handcrafted oasis in a northern Nevada high altitude valley, not really a valley, but more a depression in the eastern Sierra foothills, where mountain streams fed snowmelt into a shallow, silver lake, and everything managed to stay green, despite high desert heat and wild winter winds, looked like it welcomed me looked like it threatened me looked just the same to melooked…†   (source)
  • It was like looking at a landscape from high altitude.†   (source)
  • I could already see myself losing altitude, fading, the earth spread out beneath me, hard and bright.†   (source)
  • Their airspeed showed one hundred fifty knots and rising, altitude four hundred feet.†   (source)
  • The Delta operators became smaller and smaller as we gained altitude.†   (source)
  • The pilots held their altitude, hovering as they searched for a suitable opening to land these dual-rotor beasts.†   (source)
  • "The fuel gages on these old aircraft are notoriously unreliable," Brigadier General Bhangoo, one of Pakistan's most experienced high-altitude helicopter pilots, said, tapping it.†   (source)
  • Maximum altitude.†   (source)
  • As the forty-man line snaked upward, gained altitude, and grew visible against the near-vertical face of the mountain, it attracted attention.†   (source)
  • The planes gained altitude steadily and were above nine thousand feet by the time they crossed into enemy territory.†   (source)
  • Not only was it filthy and torn, but looking at myself in the mirror as water heated so I could bathe, I saw three months of living in the mud and snow under an unforgiving sun at high altitude upon my face.†   (source)
  • As the plane gained altitude, he felt lighter and lighter.†   (source)
  • She took all this in even as her body registered that they were plunging, losing altitude.†   (source)
  • Focusing on the least-lit area we could see, we dropped altitude, coasting in slow, wide circles, lower and lower.†   (source)
  • He gained altitude quickly, executed one loop, and winged in the direction of the Gathering.†   (source)
  • Even from this altitude, the boys could see that the entire twenty-mile route from the Northern Airport to the city's center was lined on both sides with teems of men, women and children.†   (source)
  • One of our party developed altitude sickness; blood poisoning threatened another.†   (source)
  • A tourist blimp crept by at low altitude, the guide's voice booming out tips on sky walk shopping as they crossed toward Fifth.†   (source)
  • The chopper shot out of the north, passing directly overhead at extremely low altitude, no more than fifty feet above the houses.†   (source)
  • Another had my HAHO (High Altitude, High Opening) or "jump gear."†   (source)
  • The balloon was losing altitude.†   (source)
  • O'Hare had a little notebook with him, and printed in the back of it were postal rates and airline distances and the altitudes of famous mountains and other key facts about the world.†   (source)
  • He was losing altitude just when she had expected him to climb.†   (source)
  • He focused attention on a graphic presentation showing the course and probable altitudes flown by the plane.†   (source)
  • The fields were empty now because the cows had migrated to a higher altitude, where they nervously and continually rang their tin or copper bells.†   (source)
  • "It's the altitude."†   (source)
  • A clear, solid-rock site about three hundred fifty kilometers long at a high altitude— Anything else I should know?†   (source)
  • Then the Vietnam action escalated and one morning a lone jet fighter — no one really knows from which side, but no one ever told Webb that — swooped down at low altitude and strafed his wife and children while they were playing in the water.†   (source)
  • It was the skin of a woman who had lived in the desert or at altitude.†   (source)
  • Ty asked as the plane bobbled again and lost altitude.†   (source)
  • The flight north was long and uneventful, except that we lost one engine over James Bay and had to complete the journey at an altitude of five hundred feet through rather dense fog.†   (source)
  • With fallout and radiation, it'll be luck—the size of configuration of the weapons, altitude of the fireball, direction of the wind.†   (source)
  • I had seen them before from the high altitude of one who could look down and pity.†   (source)
  • He sometimes wondered if it was a good thing for any man to work at such an altitude above his fellow humans.†   (source)
  • The bottom-going seamobiles move like tanks along these ways; minisubs hover or pass at various altitudes; slick-seeming swimmers in tight and colorful garb come and go, entering and departing the bubble or working about it.†   (source)
  • Theoretically I knew how to take off, maintain altitude, bank, recover from a stall and a full spin, and land.†   (source)
  • The place where I was caught was about a mile above sea level, and when the sun goes down it is not warm in that altitude, even in the middle of summer.†   (source)
  • The Victoria had attained an altitude of four thousand feet, and the thermometer indicated a certain diminution of temperature.   (source)
  • I might elevate my soul to all kinds of altitudes.   (source)
  • Some climb Mt. Everest without oxygen, but most climbers need oxygen at that altitude.
  • The economy is rapidly losing altitude.
  • So start slowly, and make sure you've got good altitude before you really open her up.†   (source)
  • Mama dove toward the Colossus, leaving my stomach at a higher altitude.†   (source)
  • The machine had gained altitude and left the firestorm behind.†   (source)
  • Small prop planes, he knew, flew at altitudes of about four miles.†   (source)
  • The pilot's pulling the chopper to a higher altitude.†   (source)
  • As we got closer to Washington, Blackjack started slowing down and dropping altitude.†   (source)
  • None of the climbs I'd done in the past, moreover, had taken me to even moderately high altitude.†   (source)
  • Their helicopter gained altitude, and then moved cast, out over the ocean.†   (source)
  • Holly descended to an altitude of two metres.†   (source)
  • As she struggled to gain altitude, Eragon heard the musical twang of bowstrings being released.†   (source)
  • At this altitude, it's not sand but dust," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • The sun is losing altitude; it's dark early now I write at the kitchen table, indoors.†   (source)
  • We'll keep our present altitude, thank you, Mr. Kahlo.†   (source)
  • "Let's just see what it takes to double our altitude," he said.†   (source)
  • On the road down the canyon now we feel the steady drop of altitude by a popping of ears.†   (source)
  • I gave him a malfunctioning altitude readout and made Engine Three cut out too early.†   (source)
  • That chord is pulled the split-second I hit the right altitude.†   (source)
  • "We've built a range--Cape Coalwood--and we're starting to get some altitude.†   (source)
  • The chopper cuts to about half its former speed, loses some altitude.†   (source)
  • He kept his eyes fixed on the instruments, gliding by instinct, fighting for altitude.†   (source)
  • "Velocity eight hundred and fifty, altitude eighteen hundred and forty-three," Johanssen said.†   (source)
  • It's not the altitude that's important, it's your attitude, bro.†   (source)
  • I didn't adjust them, out of curiosity to see what eleven thousand feet of altitude would do.†   (source)
  • This was an altitude I usually only saw when we were coming in for landing.†   (source)
  • A glance left and right showed his cover holding altitude and circling overhead.†   (source)
  • I doubted that it was due to the altitude, because it didn't strike until I'd returned to Base Camp.†   (source)
  • "Well below target altitude," Johanssen said.†   (source)
  • When going for altitude, bigger wasn't always better.†   (source)
  • Rife gets suspicious, and the chopper gains altitude, lifting the Kouriers off their planks.†   (source)
  • "Well, either to lose some altitude or because we're beyond pressure height."†   (source)
  • Helen, our Base Camp manager, had a grinding altitude-induced headache that wouldn't go away.†   (source)
  • Altitude thirteen hundred and fifty meters.†   (source)
  • We were having engine trouble, sir, and losing altitude.†   (source)
  • If his theodolite worked, trigonometry would give us the altitude of our rocket.†   (source)
  • He glanced up at the coverflight, noting the altitude — not too high.†   (source)
  • He was carrying a huge load and he had nose bleeds every day at high altitude.†   (source)
  • I figured we'd get a little increase in altitude as a result.†   (source)
  • A fall of dust which has been carried to medium altitude (around 2,000 meters) by a coriolis storm.†   (source)
  • So they decided to switch direction and get into high-altitude guiding.†   (source)
  • In fact, it managed only half the altitude.†   (source)
  • There was that consistent increase of moisture at median altitudes, and in certain winds.†   (source)
  • We want our rocket to go to an altitude of precisely two miles.†   (source)
  • Sleep became elusive, a common symptom of minor altitude illness.†   (source)
  • Just to get a taste of what high altitude is about.†   (source)
  • No matter what we do, we're not going to gain any more altitude.†   (source)
  • We were committed to the glory of pure altitude.†   (source)
  • The unreliability of the human mind at high altitude made the research problematic.†   (source)
  • The Eraser screamed, holding his head, and started to lose altitude.†   (source)
  • And that's what we did, approaching at an altitude of four hundred feet.†   (source)
  • Festus creaked and groaned with the effort, but he continued to gain altitude.†   (source)
  • It struck upward, gaining altitude over the dove, moving bullet-swift.†   (source)
  • Orbiting at an altitude of one hundred and eighty-seven miles, as you know.†   (source)
  • Though they ate prodigiously, they lost weight as the altitude and exercise whittled them down.†   (source)
  • It was our first mission on this deployment, and we were still getting used to the altitude.†   (source)
  • The wing suddenly dipped, and the plane started to lose altitude, smoke billowing behind us.†   (source)
  • The captain put full force on the power but the plane kept losing altitude.†   (source)
  • Angel had managed to stay airborne all this time, but she was sagging and losing altitude.†   (source)
  • One of the lakes was just ahead, but their altitude was dwindling rapidly.†   (source)
  • Even when they had reached cruising altitude and leveled off, he remained edgy.†   (source)
  • Then his eyes fluttered shut and he started to lose altitude fast.†   (source)
  • If you ask him why, he'll credit altitude-induced dementia.†   (source)
  • But his heart sank as the comet kept gaining altitude.†   (source)
  • The Eraser made a weird noise and started to lose altitude.†   (source)
  • "Miss Taggart" she said, "I am not your equal in philosophical altitude.†   (source)
  • After Saphira had kicked him, Thorn flailed and lost altitude.†   (source)
  • As you can see, my altitude is falling rapidly.†   (source)
  • It was flying a steady orbit around the little valley, at an altitude of about ten thousand feet.†   (source)
  • He felt rock instead, and the cold thinness of altitude in his lungs.†   (source)
  • At first Thomas was light-headed from the altitude.†   (source)
  • Fang nodded at me, and we aimed downward, enjoying the heady rush of losing altitude.†   (source)
  • "After we take off and reach our cruising altitude, you'll be free to get up and use the restroom."†   (source)
  • For three decades he had served as one of the most skilled high-altitude porters in the Himalaya.†   (source)
  • And then Alessandro would strike, when both were euphoric with the high-altitude dawn.†   (source)
  • If they gained any more altitude, the air would be too thin to breathe.†   (source)
  • With every step I could feel the altitude and the weight of my equipment trying to slow me down.†   (source)
  • Her normal cruising altitude is usually between fifteen thousand and twenty-two thousand feet.†   (source)
  • When we have climbed down, you are to lift off to an altitude of five hundred feet.†   (source)
  • The altitude, the meager rations, and the hardening of his body exercised his spirit.†   (source)
  • Feeling a finger of panic probing beneath his altitude-induced stupor, Mortenson sat to take stock.†   (source)
  • She hunched her shoulders and tucked her head down, feeling herself lose altitude.†   (source)
  • The air had the fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude.†   (source)
  • He had seen it before at high altitudes.†   (source)
  • Outside, he lost altitude too fast and landed clumsily on a rickety roof beam.†   (source)
  • The chase had carried him down to nine thousand feet and the bogy was still losing altitude.†   (source)
  • All right, give me a loop and then a split-S and recover your altitude and show me an Immelman.†   (source)
  • Once everyone had jumped out, the pilot immediately lifted off, banking to the east, where he would climb to "silent altitude" and provide invisible support from above.†   (source)
  • On approach toward the House of the Temple, the pilot had performed a low-altitude flyover and pulsed the relay node with a blast of electromagnetic radiation, knocking it off-line only seconds before the laptop completed its transfer.†   (source)
  • The VOR is a beacon that sends out a signal that allows pilots to calculate their altitude as they approach an airport.†   (source)
  • This is a high-altitude, fifteen-thousand-pound conventional bomb that needs to be delivered from the huge MC-130 aircraft because it is far too heavy for the bomb racks on any other attack aircraft.†   (source)
  • The state's altitude, warm days, cool nights, light volcanic soil, and abundance of irrigation water made it an ideal setting for growing Russet Burbank potatoes.†   (source)
  • Her husband had an aversion to the air of the Andes that he concealed with a variety of excuses: the dangers to the heart of the altitude, the risks of pneumonia, the duplicity of the people, the injustices of centralism.†   (source)
  • By three o'clock that afternoon it had made thirty-five trips aloft, to an altitude of one thousand feet.†   (source)
  • When you're fast-roping from a chopper with a "regular" pilot, you may find yourself at the wrong altitude, too high for the rope to reach the ground.†   (source)
  • The three long holding patterns, which meant not only eighty minutes of extra flying time but extra flying at low altitudes, where a plane burns far more fuel than it does in the thin air high above the clouds.†   (source)
  • Instead of repelling herself to a safe altitude, Holly crumpled on to the troll's back, becoming instantly entangled in the ropy fur.†   (source)
  • With the heavy load and high altitude we're not setting any records but now we're just charging up with all we have.†   (source)
  • At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him.†   (source)
  • She finishes the whole gravitational transaction with not much altitude and a nasty head of dark velocity.†   (source)
  • This morning sunlight is the same as yesterday's except warmer and softer now that we're at a lower altitude again.†   (source)
  • The stun bunny lands on the street, dead ahead, bounces up in the air, and detonates at an altitude of twenty feet.†   (source)
  • Altitude twenty-five hundred meters.†   (source)
  • We must be at a high altitude.†   (source)
  • One after another, one of the creatures–a female I now realize—would soar to a great altitude, seven thousand feet or so.†   (source)
  • The chopper starts losing altitude again, heading back down toward the twin stripe of loglo that marks out the avenue beneath them.†   (source)
  • Altitude fifteen hundred meters.†   (source)
  • The pages were covered with small neat lines of ink: date, position, wind speed, altitude, observations.†   (source)
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