He took advantage of the lowness of interest rates. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He felt responsible for her lowness of spirits. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adverb : The raiders crouched low in the bushes. ,The plane flew low. ,Some live low while others live high. She swore she would bring him low. ,The gas in the tank is running low. ,to buy something low and sell it high. ,to turn the radio low; lights turned down low. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : numerous marshy lows in the forest; the recent low in the stock market. ,a new low in tastelessness. From Dictionary.com.
And how I despised the monotony and lowness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
There's a lot of lowness in all of this right now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008] Reference
O! the lowness of him was beneath all up to that sunk to!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I cannot bear the sight of illness, or lowness of health even. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
The height herup exalts it and the lowness her down aba-seth it. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Barrows, because of the lowness and sinking ever since I met Mother. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
BEING greatly afflicted with a violent head ach and lowness of spirits. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
This is not the kind of consideration of lowness that is being referred to here. From Wordnik.com. [Training the Mind: Verse 2] Reference
Shem was a sham and a low sham and his lowness creeped out first via foodstuffs. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Stories, Auchmuty told more, and Scolded and rail'd about the lowness of the Fees. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767] Reference
Those only can feel depressed who would find excuses for the lowness of their pursuits. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
WEST: And meanwhile, Congress 'ratings are rivaling President Bush's ratings for lowness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2007] Reference
"Yes, my lord, I love her!" he said, and the lowness of his voice only intensified its emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Other symptoms which are commonly met with are great irritability of the temper and lowness of spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
In lowness of stature, in their flat features, and dark colour, they exactly resemble the Greenlanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference
They render themselves ridiculous by the lowness of their bows and the vivid picturesqueness of their speech. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Amsterdam Fever, are still upon me in Swelled Ankles, Weakness in my Limbs, a Sharp humour in my Blood, lowness of. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 April 1783] Reference
The point he was so ineptly trying to make was not about the lowness of the wage, but rather the type of work itself. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe] Reference
And this particular gambit -- claiming to hold the monopoly on "small town values" -- reaches new heights of lowness. From Wordnik.com. [Chez Pazienza: Both Ends Against the Middle] Reference
I suspect McCain's head probably started to explode this afternoon, with Obama's comments about the lowness of McCain's campaign. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Now Running Robocalls Attacking Obama In Home State Of Arizona!] Reference
Deep trenches have been dug in order to drain it off -- these, however, owing to the lowness of the surrounding country, act badly. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The pillars were rude and unpolished, but they were not out of proportion, and, in fact, were adapted to the lowness of the building. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
We measure inaccessible heights by the shadows they project, when the lowness and the distance of the light form the length of the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Rising clear beyond the bridge, the approach to it on the other side hidden by the lowness of the point of view, stands the palace of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
The very poverty of Ireland, as expressed in the lowness of Irish wages, was a convenient and perfectly justifiable argument for exclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
BEING afflicted with a nervous head-ache, and trembling of the hands, lowness of spirits, and bad appetite, a friend of mine wished very much. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Buffalo run with forelegs stiff, which fact, together with their ugly-looking humps and the lowness of their heads, gives a rocking swing to their gait. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Among his courtiers was a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Hence the lowness of tone which has been thought a necessity in painting, but is such only because our other colours do not approach to the purity of white. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
All this being quite clear, I could not possibly account for the lowness of the price, otherwise than by feeling quite confident that there must be "a some'ut.". From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
IN justice to your Sanative Tea, I approve of its utility in nervous hysterical disorders and lowness of spirits, having seen its good effect in cases under my own inspection. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The high results attributable to the large proportion of resin that the hide assimilates, explain in part the lowness of its price, which renders it so formidable a competitor. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference
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