Abney level

Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination fell 94 percent—from 4,831 to 300.

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.

By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!