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Example sentences for "high position"

  • One of his chief supporters was raised to a high position, and used his influence on his behalf.

  • One of the fugitives, Joseph Ibn-Migash, was raised by the king of Seville to a high position, and became the ancestor of a prominent personage.

  • The conversion of Bishop Bodo, who had hitherto occupied a high position, created a great sensation in its time.

  • The influence of the new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf, he speedily rose to high position.

  • He was in a high position at the court of the king of the country, who had sent him to them, to place at their disposal all that the country contained which could minister to their comfort.

  • His flowing silk gown and the curious rectangular jewelled stiff belt, projecting far beyond his body, denote that he is holding a high position at the Corean Court.

  • From the abilities displayed and the high position held by him in the Legislature, we should naturally expect to find him in the Constitutional Convention of 1835.

  • He was a gentleman of fine person, of fine address, of considerable legislative experience, and of high position at the bar.

  • Audrey, calm and dignified, took a high position in the school; and Evelyn was simply, in her own opinion, nowhere.

  • I have always endeavored to train Audrey in those nice observances, those moral principles, and that high tone which befits a girl who is a lady and who in the future will occupy a high position.

  • He left you to me to care for, and to love and to train--to train for a high position eventually.

  • Those among the aristocracy who claimed a sort of prescriptive right to the government in times when there was everything to be got, now that there was a prospect of everything being lost, shrunk from the responsibility of a high position.

  • There, under the pretext of providing for her future, this woman educated her for a rich debauchee, a man of high position, whose prey she was to become as soon as she was grown up.

  • After the fall of Vienna he escaped, thanks to the protection of a lady of high position, who procured him a falsified passport.

  • The German press had never occupied a high position.

  • He was elevated to a high position and a splendid career lay before him; but he was far ahead of his time; one of those men who seem to have appeared a century or two before the world was ready for them.

  • Ha back to Koryŭ he sent him to Yun-gyŭng to live and gave him a woman of high position as his wife.

  • Yi sent him to Song-do where the king elevated him to a high position.

  • And his Honour, having good reason to think her a baby of high position before, was now so certain that he said, "God bless her!

  • As for Moxy, she would not have been a woman if she had doubted about the value of high position, coin of the realm, and rich raiment.

  • It was the Company's aim to control the conscience by direction and confession, and especially the conscience of princes, women, youths in high position.

  • A proclamation was immediately issued, offering enormous rewards for the capture or murder of the criminals, especially so worded as to insinuate the belief that men of high position in Rome were implicated.

  • When you become acquainted with the bosom sins and pleasant vices of folk in high position, you can lead them on the path of virtue at your pleasure.

  • The object of them was great wealth--a high position.

  • What do you want of significance, father; why do you wish for a high position in society?

  • You have everything: a high position, luxury, brilliancy, even the love of your children as it seems.

  • A game of cards, to which he devotes some night hours frequently, is not specially pleasant, but he plays with persons of high position in society, or with those who are needed in his business.

  • What a situation for Bacon, or Sir Fulke Greville, or James VI, or any "man in high position" whom fancy can suggest!

  • Then, however, I am to occupy a high position in the congregation; he recognises that in my inner being lies all that must call me to be a child of light.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four cents; high antiquity; high birth; high cheek; high command; high degree; high grass; high ground; high hand; high hill; high mountain; high plateaus; high prices; high range; high road; high society; high standing; high station; high value; high wages; higher plane; higher things; highly dependent; just sense; leaving her; opposition parties