"High-built" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sleep, she was so lonely. So she rose, and, flying through the still night air, came again to the Stork's high-built nest. ...
— The Curious Book of Birds • Abbie Farwell Brown
... of the sound-post is usually one-eighth to three-eighths of an inch behind the right foot of the bridge, the distance being variable according to the model of the instrument. If the Violin be high-built, the post requires to be nearer the bridge, that its action may be stronger; whilst flat-modelled instruments require that the post be set further away from the bridge. It is not possible to have any uniform arrangement of the sound-post in ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart |
