It must be remembered that throughout Ammianus's history a count is always spoken of as of higher rank than a duke.
No other prescribed disqualification exists against persons of that or higher rank; the right of challenge being deemed sufficient to secure the forming of a competent, unbiassed, and independent jury.
The plant also that, with more spiral vessels, exhibits them particularly arranged, must take a higher rank.
I have called you friend;’ I truly felt as if, freed from the material part of my being, I belonged to a higher rank of existence.
These streets are lined by two rows of spectators of the lower classes, the windows, being occupied by those of a higher rank.
No captain shall be tried unless the president be of higher rank, and the others captains and commanders.
The bishops of higher rank, who presided over the synod, generally metropolitans, were accustomed to subscribe the decrees alone.
All, too, that were of higher rank had no other than the heathen schools to frequent, and were thus in great danger themselves from the force of heathen culture.
The tables were spread in long rows on the grassy lawn; the chiefs, and those of higher rank, being seated round their venerable host, while those not of noble birth and the freemen, were placed at the other end.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "higher rank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.