Kirk contented himself to-day with a point of vantage on the landing, for the tiny naphtha launch was not yet ready for duty.
It had been decided that the final set should not be a vantage set, and hence the next game would settle the contest.
Some of the boys had hurried across the ice to the island, and from a point of vantage near its northern end were to be seen waving their arms wildly.
If at any time he decided to do a little watching on his own account, Forrester concluded that this was the point of vantage which he would occupy.
Though his host was smaller than the Frank's, it held the vantage of position.
At his heels followed Gerold with young Karl, keen to hold the vantage of the wind-break offered by the great body of the Northman.
More in astonishment than dismay, the foremost Danes recoiled upon their fellows, causing a jam and confusion that prolonged the vantage of the Franks.
Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.
He was coming from the altar when the tocsin rang alarm, With his fair young wife beside him, lovely in her bridal charm; But he was not one to palter with a duty, or to slight The trumpet-call of honor for his vantage or delight.
No provision was made, as in most treaties, for its abrogation, and the American government could not terminate it without the consent of Great Britain for fear that she would return to her position of vantage at the time the treaty was made.
I had run nearly half a mile, and was beginning to look about for a vantage spot to rest on, when a turn in the trail brought me out along the river.
As I crept once more into the forest my hatred for this man gave me new strength, and I staggered on, searching for a vantage coign where I might take another shot at the grotesque crew.
George had evidently been asked to point out the exact spot where the man had stopped, for I could see from my vantage point two figures bending near the kerb, and even pawing at the snow which lay there.
For more than a twelvemonth Prince Agasicles made his home in England, and many of his quaint remarks abode on Sussex shepherds’ tongues for generations afterwards, recommended as they were by the vantage of princely wisdom.
The Ring, as of old, is a height of vantage for searching all the country round with a telescope on a breezy day.
I will resolve for Scotland: there am I, Till time and vantage crave my company.
I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have any vantage of ground to get up.
And so the guardsman wheeled and turned his vicious, angry mount while Gahan leaped in and out in an effort to reach the coveted vantage point, but always seeking some other opening in his foe's defense.
Hidden by concealing shrubbery he crawled to a vantage point upon a hill that projected further into the valley, and here he lay upon his belly watching the workers closest to him.
From their vantage point they saw a body of armed warriors ride forth from the gate, and winding along a well-beaten road pass from sight about the foot of the hill from which they watched.
Checagau to them was not a coign of vantagebetween great waters.
In the thick of it the Duke sent the Dutch general with a strong detachment to seize the vantage ground on the rise which the enemy had lately left.
There, well seen from his vantage point, a couple of miles away, ran a far larger valley, which was filled with tents.
ON THE BRINK Rhoda Gray moved quietly, inch by inch, along the side of the wall to gain a point of vantage more nearly opposite the lighted doorway.
And then she heard Danglar speak, and from her new vantage point his words came to her distinctly this time: "Good work, Skeeny!
The sound of running water came from Kirschell's private office, but there was no other sound--the Hawk made none as he once more gained his place of vantage behind the desk.
There are conditions of the brain and nerves, tendencies lying deep in the organism, that give points of vantage to the enemy of souls.
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me.
I give them with this ring, Which when you part from, lose, or give away, Let it presage the ruin of your love, And be my vantage to exclaim on you.
Yes, a dozen, and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for.
Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the Duke He shall not pass you.
For that which now torments me to rehearse: I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent; But yet I slew him manfully in fight, Without false vantage or base treachery.
I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter, Lest he should take exceptions to my love; And with the vantage of mine own excuse Hath he excepted most against my love.
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage With their refusal, both observe and answer The vantage of his anger.
There am I, Till time and vantage crave my company.
Come, noble gentlemen, Let us survey the vantage of the ground.
And but for ceremony, such a wretch, Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, Had the fore-hand and vantageof a king.
The leaders, or paid patriots as they were called, took up a strong position, behind whatever natural objects presented themselves, and from these points of vantage they commenced pelting their opponents with strong personal abuse.
From this point of vantage Dogvane was bidding his master to behold the bright things that lay beneath him.
He Could see only a portion, good as his vantage point was, and that portion had in it a few workmen--nothing else.
As a point of vantage it served so admirably for this purpose, and so greatly to the profit of both the Portuguese and of the more unscrupulous residents of Buenos Aires, that in 1705 Philip V.
So far as the river itself is concerned, it is possible from this point of vantage to follow its windings for miles in both directions.
Thus at the beginning of 1811 Montevideo found itself, if only for a short while, the seat of the viceroyalty of the La Plata Provinces, and from that point of vantage Elio, the Viceroy, declared war upon Buenos Aires.
The vaulting over the middle part of the gate has disappeared; but according to appearances a vantage court was left here, in the middle passage, if not in those at the sides; at the inner end of this court the gates were placed.
There was no vantage court, no inner passage; but in the early years of the Roman colony the steep lower end of the Via Marina for a distance of 70 feet was covered with a vaulted roof, which still remains.
The patron divinity of city gates, Minerva, was probably honored with a small statue in the niche still to be seen in the wall of the vantage court.
The swish of the projecting branches upon the sandbank had aroused the reptile from his siesta on this vantage ground, whence, at the lazy opening of an eye, he could survey a long stretch of the river.
Jack watched from his coign of vantage in the bush.
