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It's an impressive achievement, and part of the highish grade reflects my sense of admiration that the translator brought all this stuff to light.

Alex Remington: Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Yiddish Folktales Are Like the Brothers Grimm With Rabbis 2009

Bold, unapologetic juniper dominates a highish-proof spirit.

American Entrants in the Gin Game 2009

Junipero pioneered craft-distilled American gin, and though it is solidly in the London dry style, it has a Western directness, with bold juniper dominating a highish-proof spirit.

American Entrants in the Gin Game 2009

Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it.

NY Times Upside My Head imago1 2008

Good point, WSF, but I suspect the Venus & Elisabeth voice types are too different - luscious mezzo rolled into highish lyricodramatic soprano could be tricky.

Tannhäuser in Paris Jessica 2008

"He was a novelist of a sort that scarcely exists anymore: a serious, highbrow (or highish-brow) entertainer, who for a while was even more successful as a playwright than as a novelist."

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/10. 2006

I then cooked it all on a highish heat for ten minutes, brought it to a boil again, and stuck in the candy thermometer.

Farm Box VI: Apple Windfall Lindy 2005

I then cooked it all on a highish heat for ten minutes, brought it to a boil again, and stuck in the candy thermometer.

Toast: Lindy 2005

Sadly air pollution is highish across all of London and it matters little statistically if you are close to a road or in the leafy suburbs of Blackheath; the risks are virtually identical.

The John Roan Campaign 2007

The Briffa 2000 reconstruction, as shown below, has a highish MWP, whichis just a titch less than the modern values.

Briffa 2000 and Yamal « Climate Audit 2006