1.   By high summer the downland fields are magnificent blocks of green-headed wheat.

2.   In high summer, food was plentiful.

3.   It was high summer, a warm sunny day.

4.   Our guests anticipate the end of high summer and the start of autumn.

5.   The house looked cooler, clearer, its angles sharper and shadows blacker in the high summer sunshine.

6.   Outside, unbelievably, it was high summer.

7.   In high summer, provisions were plentiful, but would have to be gathered and loaded.

8.   They have mid-winter days just like our high summer!

9.   And do save these recipes for high summer, when vine-ripened tomatoes are abundant.