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
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
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
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
Now, however, he conceived himself to stand on high vantage ground, and appealed to the aerial reflection as a splendid miracle wrought for his behoof.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
