Sentence examples for high place of from inspiring English sources
The High Place of Sacrifice, a cultic altar dating from biblical times, is a well-preserved site.
Towards the end of the day, we walked around the back of the site, up another 670 steps, past tombs and Bedouin houses, to the High Place of Sacrifice – the exposed mountain plateau where the Nabateans performed religious rituals.
A great flat-topped rock that hunches up in the center of the city, the Acropolis ("the high place of the city") was home to the Athenians' holiest structures.
His interest was so intense and so wide, his ever-ready support of science so valuable and his scientific publications so important, that he held a high place of honour in zoology and was elected an honorary fellow by many foreign scientific societies.
Not this the place or time to tell of Joseph Pulitzer's great services to peace; of the lash he laid upon corruption in high place; of his practical and persistent leadership in movements of political reform or public purification, of his intense devotion to liberty and his passionate hatred of wrong and injustice.
He had accused "people in high places" of trying to poison Mr Anwar.
America's rivalry with Russia fuelled Kissinger's ambition to master statecraft from what Machiavelli called the alti luoghi ("high places") of Washington power elites.
India's self-interested practicality is a cultural smog that has spread far and wide, including the high places of traditional idealism — Indian journalism, for instance.
It has been denounced with burning words, from the high places of the nation, as an execrable traffic.
We stand atop the high places of the world - if not we, who else? Our view from here is darn near infinite, and aweing.
