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  • Bill Dembski has collected the highlow-lights over at Uncommon Descent, but he didn't catch the most amazing comment.

    2006 June - Telic Thoughts 2006

  • Sharper Image sells a digital thermometer that can record the highlow range; L.L.Bean has one too, that even has a remote device so it can be read upstairs in the kitchen.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Sharper Image sells a digital thermometer that can record the highlow range; L.L.Bean has one too, that even has a remote device so it can be read upstairs in the kitchen.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Marketing will change, highlow will fade, everyday value pricing will be the norm, and ad dollars that were spent on telling customers about price fluctuations will be redirected.

    The Changing Canadian Retail Landscape 2002

  • Highlows and anklejacks [6] are still patronised by _les imaginaires_ [7] of both sexes, the only alteration in the fashion being that the highlow is cut a little more on the instep, and the anklejack has retrograded a trifle towards the heel, with those _qui veulent le couper gras_.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various

  • Our royal county of Berks is in shape somewhat like a highlow or ancle-jack boot with the toe toward London, and at the tip of the toe Windsor Castle, which, as we all know, looks down on the Thames as it finally leaves the county, of which it has formed the northern boundary for more than one hundred miles.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

  • This singular covering for the foot reaches no higher than the ancle, and is laced up the front with a leathern thong, like a modern highlow, to which it bears a very decided resemblance.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

  • He was dressed in highlow boots, worsted stockings, greasy leather small clothes, a shag waistcoat, and a blue frock overall.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Positive values of the AO index indicate highlow pressure in the polar region and thus a tendency for strong zonal winds that minimize cold air outbreaks to middle latitudes.

    RealClimate John E. Pearson 2010

  • When the AO index is positive surface pressure is highlow in the polar region.

    RealClimate John E. Pearson 2010

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