That is our present high-water mark, and with our high-water mark we must learn to be satisfied.
It indicates the high-water mark of Shakespearean scholarship.
But that festival seemed the high-water mark of her happiness.
"Say he is dull," put in Alphonse, whose gaiety was at high-water mark.
The year 550 was the high-water mark of the success of the Gothic arms.
The phrase is always quoted as the high-water mark of bliss.
These four years are the high-water mark of your life's idealism.
The year was at its high-water mark, and the Buck was nearing his prime.
This is the spring of the year, when my brook is flowing at high-water mark.
They had their houses on the shore, just by high-water mark.
