He was therefore in a considerable hole, excavated far below the ordinary level.
Here at least was something to be found different from the ordinary level.
Of course whilst he is napping, the water avails itself of the opportunity to return to its ordinary level.
It is, in both cases, a peak that rises above the ordinary level.
For a year or more thereafter it remained at three or four times the ordinary level.
Consequently, when at its ordinary level, boats could pass freely under.
The roadbed was raised from six to ten feet above the ordinary level of the country, and was 30 feet wide on top.
The sea first retired and laid the bar dry; it then rolled in, rising fifty feet or more above its ordinary level.
One great advantage is that the whole are on the ordinary level.
Its depth was four fathoms; but it seemed as if it were now five or six feet below the ordinary level.