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Highly

adverb

To a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect. Synonym: extremely. "He spoke highly of her" , "Does not think highly of his writing" , "Extremely interesting"

At a high rate or wage.

In a high position or level or rank.

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... giddiness again threatened to overcome him, the support of Carmena and her pony kept him steadied. Very soon the run under the hot sun had him panting for breath. His highly oxygenized blood gushed through his arteries in a veritable stream of life. His face glistened with a ...

— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

... forbid herself an interest in Sanford Hunt and Sam Weintraub; she even idealized Todd as a humble hero, a self-made and honest man, which he was, though Una considered herself highly ...

— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis

... handkerchief. On ten dollars he can travel for a year without work, or he can travel simply on his ability to work, or he can travel as a pilgrim. You may reply that any savage can do the same thing. Yes, but any civilized man cannot; and the Japanese has been a highly civilized man for at least a thousand years. Hence his present capacity to ...

— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn

... any to prefer for myself personally, although I feel in full force my obligation to your Majesty. It is a business which concerns his Majesty, as a lover of justice and of mercy, and which, I am convinced, may be highly useful in conciliating the unfortunate irritation which at present subsists among his ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... being made by a Republican at the capital of a southern Democratic state, attracted great attention from the public press, and, much to my surprise, several of the leading Democratic and independent papers commended it highly. This was notably the case with the Louisville "Courier Journal," the Washington "Evening Star," and the New York "Herald." A brief extract from the latter is given as an indication of ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

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