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
And yet the dominant note of this inaugural is clear decisiveness, an unwavering firmness in his own opinion, a classic illustration of persuasion and appeal, as though from the vantage ground of convictions perfectly assured.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
The fight is not over, but it is being fought from a new vantage ground, and with better weapons than have ever before been employed.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
He was barely able to seize the chain again and let himself down to the vantage ground of the box, where he stood literally trembling.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
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
