The high-water mark remains 14,164.53, on October 11, 2007.
Why Wall Street Is Ignoring the Arrival of the Sequester|Daniel Gross|March 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But even if they do, there is good reason to believe that the Democratic Party has reached its high-water mark.
Long Live the GOP!|Reihan Salam|May 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Adderall—and, broadly, study drugs and the mystique surrounding them—is at its annual high-water mark this finals season.
High on Study Drugs|Daniel D'Addario|May 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“Most people say the House is the high-water mark and bills get weaker in the Senate, but the opposite is happening,” Booth said.
Why the Tea Party Isn't Touching Financial Reform|Benjamin Sarlin|April 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He represents the high-water mark of Ross Perot's Reform Party, which collapsed into irrelevance during the next decade.
Jesse the Body vs. Torture|Benjamin Sarlin|May 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The workmen were accordingly employed, during the period of high-water, in making preparations for this purpose.
Records of a Family of Engineers|Robert Louis Stevenson
At high-water the vast flood, a mile in width, rushed along at the rate of five or six miles an hour.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago|John S. C. Abbott
This channel would therefore cease to be navigable for vessels at this point, but large boats could proceed up it at high-water.
Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2)|George Grey
It was just a little "fire-alarm drill" to keep the reserve troops up to the high-water mark of efficiency.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915|Various
Beth looked along the cliff; the high-water mark was still above their heads.
The Beth Book|Sarah Grand
British Dictionary definitions for high water
high water
noun
another name for high tide (def. 1)
the state of any stretch of water at its highest level, as during a flood