Thesaurus / level
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"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRYet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYThe height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLWe were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYBy its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESI'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRIt is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThen, in heaven's name, do not put such a noble creature as Doa Inez on a level with a mere little trifling coquette.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSTo drop on one knee and level his piece was the work of an instant, but unfortunately he snapped a dry twig in doing so.
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNEBut for the trees, these sullen skies and level grounds would render England dreary enough.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYWORDS RELATED TO LEVEL
- abides
- accosts
- affronts
- allows
- be confronts by
- beards
- bears
- bit the bullet
- braces
- braves
- brooks
- challenges
- confronts
- contends
- copes with
- countenances
- courts
- crosses
- dares
- deals with
- defies
- encounters
- endures
- experiences
- eyeballs
- fights
- flies in face of
- goes up against
- grapples with
- makes a stand
- meets
- opposes
- resists
- risks
- runs into
- squares off
- stands
- stomachs
- submits
- suffers
- sustains
- swallows
- takes
- takes it
- takes on
- takes the bull by the horns
- tells off
- tolerates
- ventures
- withstands
- blew down
- bowled over
- brought down
- cause to fell
- cleft
- cut
- cut down
- dashed
- demolished
- downed
- dropped
- flattened
- floored
- gashed
- ground
- hacked
- hewed
- knocked down
- knocked over
- lay low
- leveled
- mangled
- mowed down
- prostrated
- pulled down
- razed
- rived
- severed
- shot
- shot down
- slashed
- split
- struck down
- sundered
- threw down
- tumbled
- blowing down
- bowling over
- bringing down
- cause to falling
- cleaving
- cutting
- cutting down
- dashing
- demolishing
- downing
- dropping
- flattening
- flooring
- gashing
- grinding
- hacking
- hewing
- knocking down
- knocking over
- leveling
- lying low
- mangling
- mowing down
- prostrating
- pulling down
- razing
- riving
- severing
- shooting
- shooting down
- slashing
- splitting
- striking down
- sundering
- throwing down
- tumbling
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