vantage ground
Example Sentences
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From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze.�
From Time Magazine Archive
After all the struggle for so many years against many overwhelming oppositions, Magellan now rose into the vantage ground of success, and fulfilled the vision which had illumined his soul in his darkest hours.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
From the superior vantage ground of her position, it is for her to hold out the right hand of fellowship.
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn
She had but a hundred or two yards of vantage ground left, and seemed to know it.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry
We occupied vantage ground, a good stand-point, saw both forms of society, and thus discovered what our masters had overlooked.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George
