vantage ground
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Your pilot, knowing that a run from here is a certainty, selects his vantage ground.
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The successive failures, especially the last, gave the opposition great vantage ground in declaring against the scheme altogether.
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Forgetting in her haste the dreaded reptiles, she flew quickly to the rocks above, where, having gained a vantage ground of comparative safety, she paused to mark the unaccustomed pageant below.
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The chief wells were in King's Square, Blockhouse Hill—the vantage ground of many a well-contested fisticuff battle between the rising generation; Princess Street, near Charlotte; Queen Square, the foot of Poor House Hill, which in winter made such a splendid coasting road; and in Portland close by the first public hydrant, now in Main Street.
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We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a ½vantage ground¸ for further effort.
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