"He started out as a humble police officer and rose to such astonishing heights so quickly."

Walking backwards on their tails and soaring to astonishing heights to nod balls or jump over ropes are common features of public displays.

Having ended this labour, I cut my leather portmanteau into thongs, sewed them end to end, added the sheets of my bed, and descended safely from this astonishing height.

Outside the walls, the dragon reared up to an astonishing height, its head nearly at a level with the citadel's tall spires.

To the river-bank lumbered motordrays with six-foot wheels, piled to astonishing heights with bales, parcels and in certain cases, cages in which huddled men and women.

These were delicate-looking glossy creatures about fifteen centimetres long with filmy graceful wings that lifted them to astonishing heights.

In New York, profiling was not only perpetuated but elevated to astonishing new heights during the regime of Rudolph Giuliani.

Most of them are more dedicated to tax cuts than ever, especially at a time when the federal surplus appears to be growing to astonishing heights.

Most of all, Sammy Sosa earned this victory, this Cub-like 5-3 walk on a tightrope - for 66 home runs, for pushing McGwire to astonishing heights.

This reached new and astonishing heights with Dahmer.