vantage ground
Example Sentences
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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
Standing in a fine open piazza with the Palazzo del Papa on one side, the Hospital on another, and the Bishop's palace on a third, this fine church occupies the vantage ground of Orvieto.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
Goods were arriving and being put in place; men were quarreling for this or that vantage ground, and carpenters were busy in every direction.
From The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair by Otis, James
At these times the animosity shown in some of the cartoons seems rather surprising, when looked at from the sober vantage ground of later years.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
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 Morford, Henry
