Each of these bailiffs held a high office; thus the Bailiff of Provence was always the grand commander of the Order.
One who when but sixteen can make his mark in an Order like ours is certain to rise to high office, and you and I may, before many years are over, be proud to serve under him.
The head of the party was Sir Guy Redcar, who had been a commander in England, but who was now relinquishing that post in order to take a high office in the convent at the Island.
Nehemiah was rich, and in a high office in Persia, but he loved Jerusalem and longed to be able to serve her.
He had a high office, and would have found it more profitable not to trouble himself about his countrymen.
He has proven his fitness for his high office by remarkable ability in the discharge of all its duties.
Lothario who eloped with a young widow, made such a name with his verses that he was summoned to Court, and appointed by the Emperor to high office.
Entering official life, he rose to high office, from which he retired in ill-health, loaded with honours.
He rose to high office, and was also a voluminous writer.
He graduated at the age of seventeen, and rose to high office in the State, though at one period of his life he was banished to a petty post, which somewhat disgusted him with officialdom.
The youth of Pitt has passed, his apprenticeship is over, he has now his foot in high office, he is soon to be supreme.
He had also the advantage of being brought up as a younger son to work, and thus he gained that self-reliant and pertinacious industry which served him so well through long years of high office.
He was obviously something of a butt from his physical peculiarities and awkwardness, and a butt is ill placed in high office.
A reconciliation is then effected between Harumoto and the shogun, Yoshiharu, while Miyoshi Masanaga is appointed to high office.
He received open thanks from his employer and might have risen to high office had he not debauched a daughter of the o-omi.
In ecclesiastical knowledge and purity of morals he was equally well qualified for this high office.
John Adams, in coming to the presidency, found his son in a high office, and asked his predecessor if it were fit for the President to retain his own son in office.
What shall I say of the character of the man who has left this high office; of him on the whole?
Because you and I and some other foolish people put a man in a high office, and get him to take an oath, does that, all at once, invest him with a natural right to kill anybody he sees fit; to kill an innocent Mexican?
Tacitus belonged to the senatorial order who had held high office, and had seen its ranks decimated and its dignity outraged under the tyranny.
Pliny and Tacitus and Trajan's father rose tohigh office in the earlier part of Domitian's reign.
To a man who had been appointed to high office in Greece he preaches, in earnest tones, the duty of reverence for that gifted race whose age was consecrated by the memories of its glorious prime.
Yet on the other hand Tacitus had gained practical experience in high office, both as soldier and administrator, which has always a sobering effect on the judgment.
Mr. Jefferson had the same ill opinion of him, and, notwithstanding his party zeal, always considered him in market when the federalists had any high office to bestow.
The death of Chief Justice Marshall had vacated that high office, and Roger B.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high office" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
