She believed in him as an excellent man whose piety carried a peculiar eminence in belonging to a layman, whose influence had turned her own mind toward seriousness, and whose share of perishable good had been the means of raising her own position.
Why should he not one day be lifted above the shoulders of the crowd, and feel that he had won that eminence well?
They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.
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.
Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail-these are requirements; these in time, will make the student perfect; upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence.
There was never a costless route to their present eminence, which the left can cite as a kind of social democracy in action.
It is not uncommon for senior staff to feel their research eminence somehow absolves them of this commitment, at least as far as undergraduate teaching is concerned.
"When he enters a room, people say,'Hello, Your Eminence.
"When he enters a room, people say, 'Hello, Your Eminence'.
Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.
When he enters a room, people say, 'Hello, Your Eminence.
