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
They drew lots for this vantage ground, and he, who won, after a copious perspiration, produced the following line— Here lies Dickson, Provost of Dundee.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
In that time they had fought more desperate battles than it had ever fell to the lot of two armies to fight, without materially changing the vantage ground of either.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
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
The spy, who is peering in from his vantage ground among the hay, has fathomed the secret.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
