High-raised

High´-raised`


a.1.Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.
2.Elated with great ideas or hopes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He recalled the scene within the temple when he had lain stretched upon the sacrificial altar, while La, with high-raised dagger, stood above him, and the rows of priests and priestesses awaited, in the ecstatic hysteria of fanaticism, the first gush of their victim's warm blood, that they might fill their golden goblets and drink to the glory of their Flaming God.
She has on her head a high-raised turban, made of a gay red Madras handkerchief, of the first quality, her dress is neatly fitted, and of good material, showing that she has been provided for with a careful hand.