High Water Mark

High water mark may refer to:

  • Ordinary high water mark, a landscape marking such as floodwater staining left by the highest level of water (e.g., Strandline, debris left by high tide)
  • High-water mark of the Confederacy, the turning point of the Battle of Gettysburg
  • High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument, a Gettysburg Battlefield memorial
  • High water marks, a hedge fund term used to determine fund performance fees
  • High-water mark (computer security)

Famous quotes containing the words high, water and/or mark:

    “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the
    mighty fallen!
    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;”
    —Bible: Hebrew Second Samuel (l. I, 19–20)

    “We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They will mark the stone-battlements
    And the circle of them
    With a bright stain.
    They will cast out the dead
    A sight for Priam’s queen to lament
    And her frightened daughters.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)