Eminence
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67 examples of Eminence in a sentence
These are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global
eminence
after centuries of Western domination, the Oriental answer to generations of Occidental economic success.
The horse of Dunwoodie was fleet as the wind, and scarcely a minute seemed to have passed before he gained sight, from an eminence, of the lonely vale, and as he was plunging into the bottom lands that formed its surface, he caught a glimpse of Henry Wharton and his escort, at a distance, defiling through a pass which led to the posts above.
Harvey stopped to give each of their beasts a few severe blows of his whip, that drove them headlong down the path on the other side of the eminence, and then followed his example.
At the moment he gained the path, a body of horse came over a little eminence, and was upon him before he perceived them.
On the brow of the
eminence
stood a deserted and dilapidated barn.
Night had set in before the reserve and irregulars reached the foot of Lundy's Lane, a road that diverged from the river and crossed a conical eminence, at no great distance from the Niagara highway.
These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person--that being better suited to the still smaller fry--but sat together on an
eminence
and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live, without any
eminence
to entitle them to any fame or praise beyond this.
All men whom mighty genius has raised to a proud
eminence
in the world, have usually some little weakness which appears the more conspicuous from the contrast it presents to their general character.
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
If you go on so, his
Eminence
will be forced to renew his company in three weeks, and I to put the edicts in force in all their rigor.
"But, Monsieur Commissary," said he, calmly, "believe that I know and appreciate, more than anybody, the merit of the incomparable
eminence
by whom we have the honor to be governed."
"That is exactly what I was going to say, if your
Eminence
had let me finish my sentence."
They were, one in the Rue de Vaugirard, No. 25; the other in the Rue de la Harpe, No. 75.""Does your
Eminence
command that they both be instantly arrested?"
"I," cried Bonacieux, "I deceive your Eminence!""Your wife, in going to Rue de Vaugirard and Rue de la Harpe, did not go to find linen drapers."
"Well," said the latter, "a young woman of about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, and a man of from thirty-five to forty, have indeed lodged at the two houses pointed out by your Eminence; but the woman left last night, and the man this morning."
"And that man, what has your
Eminence
done with him?"
"I defy your
Eminence
to prove it," cried Treville, with his Gascon freedom and military frankness; "for one hour before, Monsieur Athos, who, I will confide it to your Majesty, is really a man of the highest quality, did me the honor after having dined with me to be conversing in the saloon of my hotel, with the Duc de la Tremouille and the Comte de Chalus, who happened to be there."
"Your
Eminence
means Monsieur d’Artagnan."
"Yes, your Eminence, it is the same."
"No, God forbid," said the cardinal; "only, at what hour was he with you?""Oh, as to that I can speak positively, your Eminence; for as he came in I remarked that it was but half past nine by the clock, although I had believed it to be later."
He hoped, then, in a conversation with Anne of Austria, to obtain some information from that conversation, and afterward to come upon his
Eminence
with some secret which the cardinal either knew or did not know, but which, in either case, would raise him infinitely in the eyes of his minister.
"And I am the more grateful to your Eminence," replied Anne of Austria, with a smile that proved she was not the dupe of this ingenious gallantry, "from being certain that these two studs alone have cost you as much as all the others cost his Majesty."
"Monseigneur, I feared I had incurred disgrace with your Eminence."
"Your goodness confounds me, monseigneur," replied d’Artagnan, "and I am conscious of a greatness of soul in your
Eminence
that makes me mean as an earthworm; but since Monseigneur permits me to speak freely--"D’Artagnan paused.
"Then, I will presume to say that all my friends are in the king’s Musketeers and Guards, and that by an inconceivable fatality my enemies are in the service of your Eminence; I should, therefore, be ill received here and ill regarded there if I accepted what Monseigneur offers me.""Do you happen to entertain the haughty idea that I have not yet made you an offer equal to your value?" asked the cardinal, with a smile of disdain.
"Monseigneur, your
Eminence
is a hundred times too kind to me; and on the contrary, I think I have not proved myself worthy of your goodness.
"I shall entertain, whatever may happen," said d’Artagnan, placing his hand upon his breast and bowing, "an eternal gratitude toward your
Eminence
for that which you now do for me."
Let us unfold them first, and then pass on to the private plans which perhaps had not less influence upon his
Eminence
than the others.
For people toward whom he had but to put forth his hand, his
Eminence
had rarely recourse to such means.
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