vantage ground
Example Sentences
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She had but a hundred or two yards of vantage ground left, and seemed to know it.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
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 Nannie Lambert
On this vantage ground, the scheme of necessity may be erected beyond the possibility of an overthrow.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 Hezekiah Butterworth
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 Mrs. C. E. Humphry
