prestiges

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.

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.

Personal prestiges may count for much more in these cases than in the case of a collateral loan.

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.

Religion of Christianity put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods, 841-l.