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  • a cloud ... hurried across the zenith and hid the brightening stars.   (source)
    zenith = the highest point (of the sky)
  • He laughed with disbelief as the object finally reached its impossible zenith and began a slow, arcing descent.   (source)
    zenith = highest point
  • ...and the sun passed the zenith and started down.   (source)
    zenith = its highest point
  • Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the true and complete Zenith, none is so powerful and enduring yet none so unfamiliar to the citizens as the small, still, dry, polite, cruel Zenith of the William Eathornes; and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die.†   (source)
  • I find my zenith doth depend upon...   (source)
    zenith = the highest point
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  • The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.†   (source)
  • There were long recalls in the field, Baboo and Tinder bounding through lime-colored hay from some far zenith.†   (source)
  • On top of a rough wooden shelf, an old Zenith radio they had brought with them on the train from California.†   (source)
  • By the time the deformation of the reflection reached the image of Trisolaris at the plane's zenith, the stars had all disappeared because the proton plane, now curved around the other side of the planet, blocked them completely.†   (source)
  • —a second one popped as the truck reached its zenith away from me.†   (source)
  • Bod watched as the man stopped in the air at the zenith of his spring, and hung there for a moment, before he was sucked through the ghoul-gate, down and down.†   (source)
  • All trains were special to Owen Meany, who had never ridden on a train; but The Flying Yankee—its terrifying speed and its refusal to stop in Gravesend—represented to Owen the zenith of travel.†   (source)
  • Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sun was creeping toward its zenith.†   (source)
  • The sparks come sooner now, alive and bright as the target reaches its zenith.†   (source)
  • Now the sun is at full glare; the zenith, it used to be called.†   (source)
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  • When I came to the line, "Ra, the sun's zenith ..."†   (source)
  • Part of me knows to the second the time remaining before ship and farcaster complete their transit to the zenith.†   (source)
  • I figured we'd come about thirty miles, and the sun wasn't even fully at zenith.†   (source)
  • More startling, however, was the knowledge that this capstone's ultimate peak, the zenith of this obelisk, was crowned by a tiny, polished tip of aluminum—a metal as precious as gold in its day.†   (source)
  • The living room was dominated by a big old Zenith black-and-white TV he had rescued from the Naples dump.†   (source)
  • Gottfried's career had reached its zenith.†   (source)
  • She came home in September and by then we had the Pathfinder in the parking lot and a new Zenith in the living room.†   (source)
  • This shy, confiding smile made his heart move up until it hung like a Ferris wheel at its zenith, looking down at the fair.†   (source)
  • It had begun that morning, and it had not reached its zenith.†   (source)
  • Also, they had sold, to a Mexico City policeman with whom Dick had got acquainted, a pair of binoculars and a gray Zenith portable radio.†   (source)
  • While they continued to plead with the Menoa tree, the sun reached its zenith and then began to descend.†   (source)
  • On the screen was a young Oral Roberts in shades of gray, assuring my momma that God was close, that she could feel Him if her faith was strong enough, coursing through that secondhand Zenith.†   (source)
  • The four compass points plus the zenith and the nadir are six.†   (source)
  • It would have been a thirteen-inch one, specially made for us wards of the state by Zenith, with a clear plastic shell around its guts and cathodes, so that the COs would be able to tell if you were extracting parts to make weapons.†   (source)
  • As Hazel still went up, the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened the sky to the zenith.†   (source)
  • It is ironic that many Americans who had found prestige in sounding more English began dropping it when admiration for Britain was at its absolute zenith, just after the joint Allied victor;/ in World War II.†   (source)
  • When the holocaust he had ignited was at its zenith, the Jackal would abandon the truck and put into play his means of escape-his escape to Paris, the real Paris, where his army of old men would spread the word of their monseigneur's triumph over the ubiquitous, disbelieving Soviets.†   (source)
  • I stretched out, pulling knees up to stay in shade, and searched part of sky indicated, almost zenith and a touch south.†   (source)
  • The den was Miri's favorite room in Natalie's house, not least because of the seventeen-inch Zenith, inside a pale wood cabinet, the biggest television Miri had ever seen.†   (source)
  • This was in the privacy of their apartment, in front of their newly bought used Zenith TV; the one time they went to an actual game, people had called them names and told them to go back to their laundry.†   (source)
  • Especially in the mid-20th century, as manufacturing employment was rocketing toward its zenith, mistakes and disadvantages in childhood and adolescence did not foreclose adult opportunity.†   (source)
  • The trees rise straight up to zenith; there is no horizon.†   (source)
  • On the fifth or sixth day—she recalled only that it was a Saturday—she awoke after a restless night filled with confused, menacing dreams and as if by old habit stretched out her hand and switched on the tiny Zenith radio which she kept on her bedside table.†   (source)
  • That summer, lying in the long grass with my head propped against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell.†   (source)
  • Though there were few great cities on Earth where men could not see one of the silver ships glittering against the zenith, after a little while they were taken as much for granted as the sun, moon or clouds.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the sun, which was already past its zenith.†   (source)
  • The insanity of the human race had reached its historical zenith.†   (source)
  • The thin thread of the ceremonial comm-laser pulses to the zenith.†   (source)
  • I glanced over at the bulky Zenith television and the Atari 2600 connected to it.†   (source)
  • It was hooked up to a 1977 Zenith Color TV.†   (source)
  • A 21-inch Zenith television sits nearby, with an Atari 2600 game console hooked up to it.†   (source)
  • The King's Crown was at the zenith, and he could see the Stallion rearing, and there the Swan.†   (source)
  • The sun was still near its zenith when the Varden arrived at Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • As for the radio, a gray portable made by Zenith-no doubt about it, the radio was gone.†   (source)
  • A shaft of light from the zenith struck my brow, and the wind let out my hair.†   (source)
  • Up from the heart of the spreading moon-glow a tiny spark began to climb towards the zenith.†   (source)
  • Two pennies had been taped to the needle arm, covering the lightning-bolt Z in the "Zenith" embossed in the fluted metal.†   (source)
  • The sun was almost at its zenith.†   (source)
  • By the time the sun was halfway to its zenith the ordinariness of the day encroached from every direction, the concrete, tangible, undeniable world insisting that the preceding night had not happened.†   (source)
  • The sun climbed to its zenith, seemed to hang there more briefly than it ever had during the de-sert crossing, and then passed on, giving them back their shadows.†   (source)
  • The sky had turned a cobalt blue from the horizon to the zenith, and behind the line of low hills to the east a glow could be seen, pale gold and oyster pink.†   (source)
  • When the moon was nearing its zenith, Eragon saw a nest of dim orange lights floating in the darkness.†   (source)
  • Specifically, Nye hoped to find a Zenith portable radio believed to have been stolen from the Clutter house on the night of the crime, but he had no luck with that.†   (source)
  • Sweet bay and cypress and sweetgum and live oak and swamp maple closing tight made the wall dense, and yet there was somewhere still for the other wall of vine; it gathered itself on the ground and stacked and tilted itself in the trees; and like a table in the tree the mistletoe hung up there black in the zenith.†   (source)
  • They were looking down from a great elevation and all they saw was at the point of coming together, the bare trees marching in from the horizon, the rivers moving into one, and as he touched her arm she looked up with him and saw the long, ragged, pencil-faint line of birds within the crystal of the zenith, flying in a V of their own, following the same course down.†   (source)
  • I am now at the zenith of an experience.†   (source)
  • The sun had risen to the zenith and Leo began drawing in the kite-cord.†   (source)
  • But the work was luxury, for when the sun struck the zenith he could go to his house and food would be there ready for him to eat, and the dust wiped from the table, and the bowls and the chopsticks placed neatly upon it.†   (source)
  • She was not yet thirty, but was approaching the zenith of her loveliness, all her rich promise abundantly fulfilled.†   (source)
  • Thereupon he hurried to the zenith, took a thunderbolt in his right hand, and flung it from beside his ear.†   (source)
  • At the willow he knew there would be shade, at least one hard bar of absolute shade thrown by the trunk, since the sun had passed its zenith.†   (source)
  • Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith.†   (source)
  • Too pure the zenith was, too pure for the flawed and flinching eye; the eye sowed it with linty darkness, sowed it with spores and ripples of shadow drifting.†   (source)
  • Sigmund Freud stresses in his writings the passages and difficulties of the first half of the human cycle of life—those of our infancy and adolescence, when our sun is mounting toward its zenith.†   (source)
  • —' We recall the Wachaga tale of the very poor man, Kyazimba, who was transported by a crone to the zenith, where the Sun rests at noon;73 there the Great Chief bestowed on him prosperity.†   (source)
  • When he had told her, she wrapped her garment around him, and, soaring from the earth, transported him to the zenith, where the sun pauses in the middle of the day.†   (source)
  • This is the crisis at the nadir, at the zenith, or at the uttermost edge of the earth, at the central point of the cosmos, in the tabernacle of the temple, or within the darkness of the deepest chamber of the heart.†   (source)
  • Then he doubted whether his message could be communicated, and he thought to retain the wisdom for himself; but the god Brahma descended from the zenith to implore that heshould become the teacher of gods and men.†   (source)
  • Vecchia was not a caterer, he was The Caterer of Zenith.†   (source)
  • But with Angus Duer, Martin discovered a new Zenith.†   (source)
  • It was to hold its annual convention at Monarch, Zenith's chief rival among the cities of the state.†   (source)
  • I had promised myself an easy and zenith-scouring triumph, and this was the outcome!†   (source)
  • He felt helpless without the equipment of Zenith General, its nurses and Angus Duers sure advice.†   (source)
  • "At that, though," announced the first "they're selling quite some booze in Zenith.†   (source)
  • Zenith, the largest city in the state, was founded in 1792.†   (source)
  • None of these is more ardent than the Zenith Boosters' Club.†   (source)
  • Locate in Zenith and make five thousand dollars year—much as United States Senator!†   (source)
  • At the Zenith Athletic Club they discussed it amply.†   (source)
  • It's the fourth largest in Zenith, but there's no reason why we should take anybody's dust.†   (source)
  • Her bed-ridden grandaunt in Zenith, who was her excuse for coming so far to take hospital training.†   (source)
  • Oh, Doctor, you went to Winnemac and had your internship in Zenith, didn't you?†   (source)
  • And remember whenever you get to Zenith, the latch-string is always out.†   (source)
  • He was, for a spring-enchanted moment, the lyric and almost unselfish lover of Zenith.†   (source)
  • I've got four tickets for 'As It Listeth,' in Zenith, next Friday evening—original New York cast!†   (source)
  • THE summer before, Mrs. Babbitt's letters had crackled with desire to return to Zenith.†   (source)
  • With seventy thousand people, it is a smaller Zenith but no less brisk.†   (source)
  • They had been so little apart since he had first come on her, scrubbing a hospital room in Zenith.†   (source)
  • Seems to think I'm a little tin archangel, and the best-looking man in Zenith.†   (source)
  • Mr. Eathorne was the seventy-year-old president of the First State Bank of Zenith.†   (source)
  • This ain't Zenith, where you can go yelling around expecting to get things done in two minutes!†   (source)
  • It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers.†   (source)
  • The University of Winnemac is at Mohalis, fifteen miles from Zenith.†   (source)
  • At that moment in Zenith, two men sat in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • It was at this time that he encountered Martin and Leora on the street in Zenith.†   (source)
  • There's a—there's a great friend of mine in Zenith that I want you to meet—†   (source)
  • 'Member we met in Zenith, at Charley McKelvey's?†   (source)
  • Clif moved into Zenith, and Martin was left alone.†   (source)
  • Zenith ardently received Sir Gerald (who had come to America to buy coal).†   (source)
  • The thirty-eight miles an hour at which Clif drove into Zenith was, in 1908, dismaying speed.†   (source)
  • I wish to thunder we'd been better acquainted in Zenith.†   (source)
  • The nervous loquacity and opinionation of the Zenith Athletic Club dropped from them.†   (source)
  • Nautilus is to Zenith what Zenith is to Chicago.†   (source)
  • He did go and support the team, and enhance the glory of Zenith, by yelling "Attaboy!" and "Rotten!"†   (source)
  • Clif had encountered him in Zenith, when they were both drunk.†   (source)
  • When Ted had returned to Zenith, Babbitt was lonely.†   (source)
  • He had brought from Zenith his own Ochsner surgical case.†   (source)
  • In Zenith, an Old Family is one which came to town before 1840.†   (source)
  • The Grand was, in 1907, the best hotel in Zenith.†   (source)
  • At the Zenith Athletic Club, privacy was very bad form.†   (source)
  • , Oberlin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith.†   (source)
  • 'I tell you, Zenith and her sister-cities are producing a new type of civilization.†   (source)
  • He was the employment-manager and publicity-counsel of the Zenith Street Traction Company.†   (source)
  • Since it was to be his last before he reached Zenith, he finished it down to an inch stub.†   (source)
  • I claim that Zenith is the best partner and the fastest-growing partner of the whole caboodle.†   (source)
  • In the morning, when he returned to Zenith, his desire for rebellion was partly satisfied.†   (source)
  • At that moment in Zenith, Jake Offutt, the politician, and Henry T. Thompson were in conference.†   (source)
  • Himself, he could not have given the average salary of teachers in Zenith or anywhere else.†   (source)
  • I'll hand her a good fairy-story when I get back to Zenith.†   (source)
  • And all the while he was conscious of the loveliness of Zenith.†   (source)
  • With melancholy he looked back at the last suburb of Zenith.†   (source)
  • You Zenith tightwads haven't got any joints like these here.†   (source)
  • Presently he called on the visiting secretary of the Zenith Rotary Club, a rival organization.†   (source)
  • There are many resemblances between Zenith and these other burgs, and I'm darn glad of it!†   (source)
  • They were large, resolute, big-jawed men, and they were all high lords in the land of Zenith—Dr.†   (source)
  • There was no one in Zenith who talked of anything but the strike, and no one who did not take sides.†   (source)
  • To the League belonged most of the prosperous citizens of Zenith.†   (source)
  • Babbitt's excursion was never known to his family, nor to any one in Zenith save Rogers and Wing.†   (source)
  • A broker from Minnemagantic said, "Monarch is a lot sportier than Zenith.†   (source)
  • "Say, gee, I had a wild old time in Zenith!" he gloried.†   (source)
  • He leaped on a bench, shouting to the crowd: "What's the matter with Zenith?"†   (source)
  • The Milky Way ran in two pale streams from the zenith to the horizon.†   (source)
  • Fashionable people only light up their minds when the zenith lights up its stars.†   (source)
  • The moon shone in the midst of the constellations at their zenith.†   (source)
  • The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.†   (source)
  • But he clasped both his hands over his breast, and cast his eyes towards the zenith.†   (source)
  • An unvaried pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon.†   (source)
  • The wonderful Southern Cross, polar star of the Antarctic regions, twinkled at its zenith.†   (source)
  • Within the church, it had hardly been kept down; beneath the sky it pealed upward to the zenith.†   (source)
  • The sun was almost at the zenith.†   (source)
  • And at the zenith of his fame, how he would suddenly appear at the old village and stalk into church, brown and weather-beaten, in his black velvet doublet and trunks, his great jack-boots, his crimson sash, his belt bristling with horse-pistols, his crime-rusted cutlass at his side, his slouch hat with waving plumes, his black flag unfurled, with the skull and crossbones on it, and hear with swelling ecstasy the whisperings, "It's Tom Sawyer the Pirate!†   (source)
  • After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith, and when some one, thinking that we were late in starting for our walk, said, "What, only two o'clock!" feeling the heavy throb go by him of the twin strokes from the steeple of Saint-Hilaire (which as a rule passed no one at that hour upon the highways, deserted for the midday meal or for the nap which follows it, or on the banks of the brigh†   (source)
  • The warm sun soared to the zenith.†   (source)
  • Halfway to the zenith rose the sun.†   (source)
  • Martin cried to Leora, "I feel as if all the Zenith dust and hospital lint were washed out of my lungs.†   (source)
  • Then as the moon crept down from the zenith, one by one the listeners began to yawn (showing the oddest teeth in the light of the sinking fire), and first one and then another retired towards the dens in the ravine; and I, dreading the silence and darkness, went with them, knowing I was safer with several of them than with one alone.†   (source)
  • I've never seen it, but I've heard that's how primitive tribes do it, celebrating the first night of summer, which is actually the beginning of autumn—the year's high noon, its zenith, and it's all downhill from there.†   (source)
  • It was true that just before meeting Sondra he was actually at the zenith of content and delight with Roberta.†   (source)
  • The shadow of the silent cloud had fallen upon the ship from the zenith, and seemed to have extinguished every sound of her teeming life.†   (source)
  • Then I touched off the hogshead of rockets, and a vast fountain of dazzling lances of fire vomited itself toward the zenith with a hissing rush, and burst in mid-sky into a storm of flashing jewels!†   (source)
  • From boyhood on, these were all familiar sights to Hans Castorp, awakening in him a warm sense of belonging, a feeling that reached its zenith, perhaps, on those occasions when he would join James Tienappel or his cousin Ziemssen— Joachim Ziemssen—in the pavilion on the Alster for a Sunday breakfast of warm rolls and smoked beef, washed down by a glass of old port, then lean back in his chair and puff devotedly on his cigar.†   (source)
  • Six hours more or less on the defensive; six hours of alert immobility while the boat drove slowly or floated arrested, according to the caprice of the wind; while the sea, calmed, slept at last; while the clouds passed above his head; while the sky from an immensity lustreless and black, diminished to a sombre and lustrous vault, scintillated with a greater brilliance, faded to the east, paled at the zenith; while the dark shapes blotting the low stars astern got outlines, relief became shoulders, heads, faces, features,—confronted him with dreary stares, had dishevelled hair, torn clothes, blinked red eyelids at the white dawn.†   (source)
  • Either you do what I say, just exactly what I say, or Mart and I take the first train and go back to Zenith, and I mean it!†   (source)
  • He did, during the period of Martin's internship in Zenith General, a thing more preposterous than any of the superstitions at which he scoffed.†   (source)
  • He and his roommates had trustingly bought it from a salesman who came out from a Zenith surgical supply house.†   (source)
  • Have you met lots of people in Zenith?†   (source)
  • There is one large hotel to compare with the dozen in Zenith, but that one is as busy and standardized and frenziedly modern as its owner can make it.†   (source)
  • Next morning he offered to find a job for him, but Martin refused and left Zenith by the northbound train at noon.†   (source)
  • A long letter from Leora, hinting that she might not be able to return to Zenith, left him the more lonely.†   (source)
  • Well, we must try and get you into Zenith General for your internship, a year from now, and make you able to support her properly.†   (source)
  • He saw that out of the seven members of the Board of Regents, the four who lived in or near Zenith were present.†   (source)
  • All South Zenith was agitated by the glare on the low-hung clouds, the smell of scorched timber, the infernal bells of charging fire-apparatus.†   (source)
  • In the slightly Midwestern city of Zenith, the appearance of a play "with the original New York cast" was an event.†   (source)
  • Say you skinny little runt, I'm a son of a gun if you look one day older'n when I saw you last in Zenith!†   (source)
  • In medical school and Zenith General Hospital, Angus Duer had been efficient enough, but now he was ten times as self-assured.†   (source)
  • Do you come from Zenith, Miss—Tozer?†   (source)
  • At the Zenith General Hospital he got the night superintendent, and the night Superintendent was a man frosty and suspicious.†   (source)
  • Shake hands with Dr. Arrowsmith Mart, meet George F. Babbitt, the hoch-gecelebrated Zenith real-estate king.†   (source)
  • V. His half-hour journey with Madeline into Zenith seemed a visible and oppressing thing, like a tornado cloud.†   (source)
  • It's— You know my work takes me to the hospitals, and some of the nurses at Zenith General have been awfully helpful.†   (source)
  • Gottlieb had sent him into Zenith, to the huge Zenith General Hospital, to secure a strain of meningococcus from an interesting patient.†   (source)
  • So Chum wrote this poem about me:" Zenith welcomes with high hurraw A friend in Almus Pickerbaugh, The two-fisted fightin' poet doc Who stands for health like Gibraltar's rock.†   (source)
  • The six interns in Zenith General, including Martin and Angus Duer, lived in a long dark room with six camp beds, and six bureaus fantastic with photographs and ties and undarned socks.†   (source)
  • He said goodby, with lamentations and considerable beer; he found a room for Leora nearer to the hospital; and he emerged as Martin L. Arrowsmith, M.D., house physician in the Zenith General Hospital.†   (source)
  • He had gone on, had captured the construction-company once owned by the Dodsworths, best-known pioneer family of Zenith.†   (source)
  • But Winnemac is Midwestern in its fields of corn and wheat, its red barns and silos, and, despite the immense antiquity of Zenith, many counties were not settled till 1860.†   (source)
  • He remembered how often Madeline Fox had hinted that it would be a tasty thing to go to the Grand, Zenith's most resplendent hotel, but that was the last time he thought of Madeline that evening.†   (source)
  • All along the highway into Zenith, under the low and gentle moon, motors were parked and dim figures were clasped in revery.†   (source)
  • At that moment in Zenith, three hundred and forty or fifty thousand Ordinary People were asleep, a vast unpenetrated shadow.†   (source)
  • It was not that he was sniffily superior to cornet solos, for in Elk Mills, Wheatsylvania, and surprisingly large portions of Zenith, cornet solos were done by the most virtuous females.†   (source)
  • In Zenith it is impossible to lunch with a neighbor's wife without the fact being known, before nightfall, in every house in your circle.†   (source)
  • In an equally silent tongue Mrs. Fox answered him, till the room was thick with their antagonism, while they seemed to be discussing the weather, the University, and the trolley service into Zenith.†   (source)
  • He had often and weightily pondered flappers smoking in Zenith restaurants, but he knew only one woman who smoked—Mrs.†   (source)
  • He would flee to her in Easter vacation; he would compel Tozer to support her while she studied stenography in Zenith; he would have her near him through the last year.†   (source)
  • She spoke familiarly of what were known as the Leaders of Zenith Society, the personages who appeared daily in the society columns of the Advocate-Times, the Cowxes and Van Antrims and Dodsworths.†   (source)
  • "Zenith's a city with gigantic power—gigantic buildings, gigantic machines, gigantic transportation," meditated Doane.†   (source)
  • Martin was astonished by the familiarity; he remembered that she had once gone to a charity ball in Zenith but he had not known that she was so intimate with the peerage.†   (source)
  • THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.†   (source)
  • The university was at Mohalis only fifteen miles from Zenith, and Ted often came down for the week-end.†   (source)
  • Skittering through a garage alley they came out on the mass of Zenith General Hospital, a block long, five stories of bleak windows with infrequent dim blotches of light.†   (source)
  • The Eathorne Mansion preserves the memory of the "nice parts" of Zenith as they appeared from 1860 to 1900.†   (source)
  • The only authentic difference between Nautilus and Zenith is that in both cases all the streets look alike but in Nautilus they do not look alike for so many miles.†   (source)
  • That was when I was in Zenith to address the national convention of Congregational Sunday-schools, I happen to be a Congregationalist myself, on 'The Morality of A1 Health.'†   (source)
  • Come now, Lady Wycombe, if you'll take the Duke of Zenith's arm, we will proambulate in to the magnolious feed!†   (source)
  • Crowded in his car, they came driving up to Turnverein Hall, South Zenith—Babbitt, his wife, Verona, Ted, and Paul and Zilla Riesling.†   (source)
  • Actually they were extremely small debauches; they rarely went beyond too much lager in the adjacent city of Zenith, or the smiles of a factory girl parading the sordid back avenues, but to Martin, with his pride in taut strength, his joy in a clear brain, they afterward seemed tragic.†   (source)
  • It's from the Zenith Advocate-Times, and it's by Chum Frink, who, I think you'll agree with me, ranks with Eddie Guest and Walt Mason as the greatest, as they certainly are the most popular, of all our poets, showing that you can bank every time on the literary taste of the American Public.†   (source)
  • He was the great-grandson of one of the five men who founded Zenith, in 1792, and he was of the third generation of bankers.†   (source)
  • To Arrowsmith, intern in Zenith General Hospital with its out-patient clinic treating hundreds a day, the dressing of a hand had been less important than borrowing a match, but to Dr. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania it was a hectic operation, and the farmer a person remarkable and very charming.†   (source)
  • His church, the Chatham Road Presbyterian, was one of the largest and richest, one of the most oaken and velvety, in Zenith.†   (source)
  • In Floral Heights and the other prosperous sections of Zenith, especially in the "young married set," there were many women who had nothing to do.†   (source)
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  • It is not for nothing that Zenith is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the choosiest inland city in the country.   (source)
    zenith = (in this novel) the name of Babbit's city
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