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
It was very easy to envy from the comfortable vantage ground of a hundred and fifty thousand a year.
From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George
At these times the animosity shown in some of the cartoons seems rather surprising, when looked at from the sober vantage ground of later years.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
Youth looked back upon from the vantage ground of middle age is as a railway journey compared with a summer day’s boating on a broad, calm river.
From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.
Your pilot, knowing that a run from here is a certainty, selects his vantage ground.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Lambert, Nannie
