hauteur
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Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The former I called the Plantagenet, and ascended it through La Salle, Marquette, and Assawa Lakes to a small creek at the foot of the Hauteur des Terres.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Hauteur should have been her natural expression, but her eyes were dreamy and melancholy, her mouth discontented.
From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Hauteur, contempt and disgust, expressed themselves in my little darling's blue eyes.
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
The first day's travel was to White Earth Agency, twenty-two miles across a rolling prairie which steadily rises toward its climax in the Hauteur des Terres.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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