prestiges
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Yet, with all the prestiges in his favor, the administration of Blasco Nunez, from universal testimony, was a total failure.
From History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas by Prescott, William Hickling
All prestiges of grandeur and worldly pomp vanish round the bed of sickness; and the suffering peer would kneel before the humblest peasant for relief.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
The prestiges of the imagination, so powerful in the ideal and dreamy nature of Germany, served as a bait to the newly arisen truths.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
All these prestiges will vanish if we render to Charlemagne his well deserved encomium:—he was a great warrior, a great statesman, fitted for his own age.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
The return to it each evening had given it that character, and one's instincts are invariably at work to make substitutes for all the "prestiges" that tell of family and friends.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James