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  • Your Eminence, Your Holiness, Your Highness.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be a professional puppy-player-wither, which at the time seemed eminently reasonable.†   (source)
  • Kate wasn't sure what Reynie was laughing about, but she was eminently agreeable, and before long she was laughing with him.†   (source)
  • I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from the eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy and that in early years he added an 'e' to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him."†   (source)
  • It was part of some historic tribute to eminent Italians.†   (source)
  • But as Werner stands in the slowly dispersing fog at the end of the rue Vauborel, rehearsing what he'll say, the front door of Number 4 opens, and out steps not an eminent old scientist but a girl.†   (source)
  • Max van de Velde is a farm boy from Medemblik, but eminently suitable, as Margot would say.†   (source)
  • Indeed there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the noun originated.†   (source)
  • He sent his sons ahead of him shouting and waving ceremonially preserved animal parts to announce his eminence.†   (source)
  • Tall, thin, ascetic, with white hair receding from a noble brow and eyes too filled with the sharp edge "of experience to hide their pain, Paul Dur was a follower of St Tellhard as well as an archaeologist, ethnologist, and eminent Jesuit theologian.†   (source)
  • He "was eminently engaging and social and he had a keen sense of humor," his partners wrote.†   (source)
  • They were surely older than her, but they behaved as if she were a visiting eminence.†   (source)
  • There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.†   (source)
  • Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy.†   (source)
  • On this Pentecost, in a rare coincidence, two extraordinary events had occurred: the death of a friend and the silver anniversary of an eminent pupil.†   (source)
  • Shall I perform my various functions for the eminent Feyd-Rau-†   (source)
  • Unlike Phaedrus, this man was an international celebrity at thirty-five, a living legend at fifty-eight, whom Bertrand Russell has described as "by general agreement, the most eminent scientific man of his generation."†   (source)
  • From his point of view as an expert in the ancient Japanese art of stick fighting, Sergeant Maples could say with certainty that the defendant was eminently capable of killing a man far larger than himself with a fishing gaff.†   (source)
  • A live frog would be eminently suitable.†   (source)
  • On the third day the elderly man asked the wrinkled man if he would care to join him on his balcony, and though the elderly man could not speak Brazilian Portuguese and the wrinkled man could not speak Dutch, they cobbled together a conversation, a conversation with many long gaps, but these gaps were eminently comfortable, almost unnoticed by the two men, as two ancient trees would not notice a few minute, or hours that passed without a breeze.†   (source)
  • Even Jim's strongest ally there got frightened when various eminent tb experts wrote to Geneva saying they couldn't countenance the elevation of second-line antibiotics to the essential drugs list.†   (source)
  • We have found her to be eminently satisfactory.†   (source)
  • An eminent citizen, so one heard, was on the point of arrest.†   (source)
  • He wondered what he would have to go through to achieve a comparable eminence.†   (source)
  • Though this process seemed to me eminently fair—and also humorous—Tefu was still unhappy.†   (source)
  • But his graduate advisor, the eminent poverty scholar William Julius Wilson, promptly sent Venkatesh into the field.†   (source)
  • Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders, generals steely in their sunglasses—the mapped visions that pierce our dreams?†   (source)
  • David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.†   (source)
  • The three years she had spent in college, a junior year in France, and being the granddaughter of the eminent Dr. Foster should have culminated in something more elegant than the two uniforms that hung on Miss Graham's basement door.†   (source)
  • It is true that the Took family had long been pre-eminent; for the office of Thain had passed to them (from the Oldbucks) some centuries before, and the chief Took had borne that title ever since.†   (source)
  • Eminent scientists explained in the newspaper that the human organism was not made to withstand moving about at twenty kilometers an hour and that the new ingredient called gasoline could catch fire and cause a chain reaction that would consume the entire city.†   (source)
  • Glancing neither left nor right, he strode indomitably up to the steam counter and, in a clear, full-bodied voice that was gruff with age and resonant with ancient eminence and authority, said: 'Gimme eat.'†   (source)
  • It's Donald's aunt, Miriam, a ninety-two-year-old white eminence in a black shawl who, during introductions hours back, mentioned how she was "a pioneer, too," as one of the first women to graduate from New York University Law School in 1927.†   (source)
  • It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm.†   (source)
  • The Howe brothers belonged to one of England's most eminent families.†   (source)
  • If such an eminent person as yourself were known to be a guest here, you might find little rest.†   (source)
  • The job fell to a young man who had worked at SIS since 1970, and whose background and political loyalty made him eminently qualified to work alongside the officers in the Section.†   (source)
  • At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm.†   (source)
  • It reminded him of that interview with the eminent novelist, last winter.†   (source)
  • In addition to stories on the rich and famous, it ran articles by eminent psychologists and journalists, interviews with both statesmen and rock stars.†   (source)
  • At first, the war stimulated enrollment and conferred a sense of mission on the school, a stature and an eminence it did not enjoy during those rare times when the United States was not trading the blood of its sons for the blood of other, darker, sons.†   (source)
  • "Eminently," he answered, smiling.†   (source)
  • In Boston, on October 21, 1835, William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, was rescued from a mob of some two thousand well-dressed, eminently respectable men who were intent on hanging him.†   (source)
  • His eyes, as I gaze into them, look very dark, and very friendly…just as his lips, as always, look eminently kissable.†   (source)
  • A man of irregular ambition would reluctantly leave the office forever, an office where he had acquired a passion for power and pre-eminence.†   (source)
  • They are now hiding in the house of the eminent physician and Confederate sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd.†   (source)
  • To the south loomed the Rocky Hill, gray boulders clearly visible along the top, and beyond it the higher eminence of the Round Hill.†   (source)
  • Writing in the third-century C.E. in his The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius reported that Socrates "discussed moral questions in the workshops and the marketplace."†   (source)
  • Afi Shamron, the twice-former chief of the Office and eminence grise of Israeli intelligence, often used the hotel as a meeting place when King Saul Boulevard or a safe flat wouldn't do.†   (source)
  • George was a massive and eminently regal beast whose coat was silver-white.†   (source)
  • In the matter of education, Atlanta has long been eminent.†   (source)
  • But the Houses of Parliament were unchanged: Nelson's solitary eye still stared down Whitehall: the dome of St. Paul's still stood above Ludgate Hill, though now there were taller buildings to challenge its pre-eminence.†   (source)
  • As it was she got an assist from one Genghis Cohen, who is the most eminent philatelist in the LA. area.†   (source)
  • The house, a one-story brick structure, stood in a grove of cottonwoods on a little eminence over a pool made by a dammed-up spring.†   (source)
  • I've tried, and have been eminently unsuccessful to date.†   (source)
  • His role as the adviser of the man who had recently made himself President was supposed to be secret, but his eminence was generally known and he had been invited to lecture at the university where Yvette was.†   (source)
  • The atmosphere at the Gromekos' was eminently suitable, .†   (source)
  • I might have felt apprehensive for him, but that I knew him to be eminently capable of looking after himself; or sorry, save that he so patently did not desire it; but I could not help feeling a vague responsibility which certainly I knew I was in no position to fulfil.†   (source)
  • And so it went…… It was a plutocratic feudalism …. eminently respectable.†   (source)
  • A sailor, seated cross-legged on an eminence like a drum, with one foot bare, the blackened toes fanned out like a circus clown's, sewed with all his might on a sock with a full shape to it.†   (source)
  • Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.†   (source)
  • It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.   (source)
  • an eminent peak
  • This always pleased the eminently practical friend.   (source)
    eminently = with high standing
  • The Judge, beyond all question, was a man of eminent respectability.   (source)
    eminent = respected and famous or important
  • In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who...   (source)
    eminent = person standing above others in attainment or reputation
  • Abraham as in Lincoln: it had amused Crake to name his Crakers after eminent historical figures.†   (source)
  • The eminent Reverend Egerton Ryerson, of Toronto, followed much the same course.†   (source)
  • "What is not an allegory," said the Count, "is my appointment with an eminent professor.†   (source)
  • Margot would say that Hello is eminently suitable.†   (source)
  • Delays at the fixed lines were foreseeable and eminently preventable.†   (source)
  • Standing before them was the eminent professor from table six.†   (source)
  • On the surface they will be disparate in character and position and eminently acceptable.†   (source)
  • From the looks of her, the wolfpack was eminently successful; it was obvious she had not slept.†   (source)
  • A man like that was eminently navigable.†   (source)
  • This invention, the product of Dr. Robert Stadler, the pre-eminent lover of freedom-†   (source)
  • The suit from the visit of the Eminent Persons Group had long since vanished.†   (source)
  • In May, the Eminent Persons Group was scheduled to see me one last time.†   (source)
  • This utterly poisoned the talks, and the Eminent Persons Group immediately left South Africa.†   (source)
  • Her eminent companions on the 1994 attempt said nothing disparaging about Pittman, at least not in public.†   (source)
  • One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson called The Truly Disadvantaged, struck a nerve.†   (source)
  • The basis of the foundation-shattering Theory of Relativity was as yet understood only by very few, of whom Poincaré, as the most eminent mathematician of his time, was one.†   (source)
  • Early on certain professors at the medical school—especially the eminent anthropologist Arthur Kleinman and the equally eminent child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg—had taken a shine to Farmer and licensed his unorthodox habits of attendance.†   (source)
  • Beyond the officials stood Florentino Ariza, dressed in dark clothing and almost invisible among so many eminent people.†   (source)
  • As the eminent French philosopher and scientist Maine de Biran had said, there was an inner New World to be discovered, for which one must "plunge into the subterranean caverns of the soul."†   (source)
  • And those who wanted or needed to track the movements of consumers online had found their Valhalla: the actual buying habits of actual people were now eminently mappable and measurable, and the marketing to those actual people could be done with surgical precision.†   (source)
  • Tenzing Norgay and other eminent Sherpas signed a petition demanding that the government of Nepal conduct an official inquiry of the purported ascent.†   (source)
  • Aristotle has always been eminently attackable and eminently attacked throughout history, and shooting down Aristotle's patent absurdities, like shooting fish in a barrel, didn't afford much satisfaction.†   (source)
  • She drove governors and admirals mad, she watched eminent heroes of arms and letters who were not as illustrious as they believed, and even some who were, as they wept on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • His father, a physician who was more self-sacrificing than eminent, had died in the epidemic of Asian cholera that had devastated the population six years earlier, and with him had died the spirit of the house.†   (source)
  • "The Metropol Hotel," he informed the Count unnecessarily, "is host to some of the world's most eminent statesmen and prominent artistes.†   (source)
  • Nova, the PBS television show, produced an elaborate and very informative website featuring daily updates from Liesl Clark and the eminent Everest historian Audrey Salkeld, who were members of the MacGillivray Freeman IMAX expedition.†   (source)
  • Dining alone at table six was an eminent professor of literature—who they say had single-handedly wrestled the works of Dostoevsky to the ground.†   (source)
  • Much of the credit belongs to a member of that expedition named Brent Bishop (the son of the late Barry Bishop, the eminent National Geographic Photographer who summitted Everest in 1963), who initiated a highly successful incentive policy, funded by Nike, Inc whereby Sherpas are paid a cash bonus for each oxygen bottle they bring down from the Col. Among the companies guiding Everest, Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants, Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness, and Todd Burleson's Alpine…†   (source)
  • I owned a book in which there was a photograph of the Devils Thumb, a black-and-white image taken by an eminent glaciologist named Maynard Miller.†   (source)
  • Until that time the eminent dead were interred under the flagstones in the churches, in the exclusive vicinity of archbishops and capitulars, while the less wealthy were buried in the patios of convents.†   (source)
  • The eminent teacher shook hands with each of them, as he always did with every one of his pupils before beginning the daily class in general clinical medicine, and then, as if it were a flower, he grasped the hem of the blanket with the tips of his index finger and his thumb, and slowly uncovered the body with sacramental circumspection.†   (source)
  • Tenzing-the same man who would later make the first ascent of Everest with Hillary-had immigrated to Darjeeling from Nepal in 1933 as a seventeen-year-old, hoping to be hired by an expedition departing for the peak that spring under the leadership of an eminent British mountaineer named Eric Shipton.†   (source)
  • But before the Count could answer his own question, the pudgy American waved a friendly hand at someone in the lobby—and who should return the wave but a certain eminent professor….†   (source)
  • She distributed her gifts of pleasure as far as her body could reach, and although her indecent conduct was public knowledge, no one could have made a definitive case against her, because her eminent accomplices gave her the same protection they gave themselves, knowing that they had more to lose in a scandal than she did.†   (source)
  • Without a word of orchestration, the head of the table was left to Bulganin, Khrushchev, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Voroshilov—the six most eminent members of the Party— with the two center seats reserved for Premier Malenkov and General Secretary Khrushchev.†   (source)
  • I scan the first paragraph: "Eminent artist Elaine Risley returns to hometown Toronto this week for a long-overdue retrospective."†   (source)
  • The clothes in the store look to me eminently respectable, of conservative styling and subdued color, not too fancy or too cheap, the blouses and pantsuits and skirts of office managers and junior executives and the young real estate agents who aren't Liv Crawford quite yet.†   (source)
  • In my judgment, the most eminent services that the greatest of her sons can do America will not more essentially serve her and honor themselves than a successful negotiation with France.†   (source)
  • Eminent, the mausoleum word.†   (source)
  • Economy of effort seemed to be a guiding principle with the wolves — and an eminently sensible one too, for the testing process often had to be continued for many hours before the wolves encountered a caribou sufficiently infirm to be captured.†   (source)
  • Apparently your definition of eminently satisfactory includes throwing students up against lockers and the ability to curse like a sailor?†   (source)
  • You emerged from your confinement in Marseilles an addict and, of course, there were the films of the eminent attorney in compromising situations.†   (source)
  • Marie had held the eminent Dr Panov's head while the noted psychiatrist threw up in the British military aircraft's suffocatingly small toilet, covering Mo with a blanket when he fell into a dead sleep.†   (source)
  • As an educated man successful in his profession, as an eminent Republican and church leader-even though of the Methodist church-Mr. Clutter was entitled to rank among the local patricians, but just as he had never joined the Garden City Country Club, he had never sought to associate with the reigning coterie.†   (source)
  • There were very few such uniquely eminent individuals upon whom society had peculiar claims, Jefferson insisted.†   (source)
  • The actress was eminently resourceful, however, and left America to barnstorm through England before returning in 1869 to manage the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, an eminent member of Congress who opposed the Declaration, had called it a "skiff made of paper."†   (source)
  • As a result of what would always be known as the Jerry rescue, twenty-four eminently respectable citizens of Syracuse ( including Reverend J. W. Loguen, Samuel May, Charles Wheaton) and Gerrit Smith, who was visiting the city, were arrested and charged with "constructive treason."†   (source)
  • But then Arthur Goldman, the eminent historian of anti-Semitism from Cambridge, said he might be willing to make the trip down to Paris— provided, of course, that Hannah agreed to put him up for two nights in his favorite suite at the Crillon.†   (source)
  • "Well, Mr. Rearden," he said, by way of greeting, "I didn't know that even a hardened hound of public functions and shaker of famous hands, like myself, could still get a thrill out of meeting an eminent man, but that's what I feel right now, believe it or not."†   (source)
  • The next morning, in his own brief inaugural remarks before the Senate, Jefferson made a point of commending Adams as that "eminent character," and spoke of their "uninterrupted friendship."†   (source)
  • In my weaker moments, I imagine the client as a vastly wealthy voyeur, a decrepit, shut-away xenophobe who keeps a national vigilance on eminent agitators and ethnics.†   (source)
  • "It seemed to be the principle employment of both armies to look at each other with spyglasses," wrote the eminent Loyalist Peter Oliver, former chief justice of the province.†   (source)
  • The San Sebastian Mines were the most eminently successful venture in industrial history: they produced no copper, but they provided a livelihood for thousands of men who could not have achieved, in a lifetime, the equivalent of what they got for one day's work, which they could not do.†   (source)
  • The tree-shaded square with its neat gravel walks covered five acres—exactly the size of the garden at Auteuil—and was framed by elegant town houses belonging to a number of London's most eminent citizens, including Lord Carmarthen.†   (source)
  • The Eminent Persons Group had come with many questions involving the issues of violence, negotiations, and international sanctions.†   (source)
  • So the two eminent bedfellows lay side-by-side in the dark, the window open, Franklin expounding, as Adams remembered, "upon air and cold and respiration and perspiration, with which I was so much amused that I soon fell asleep."†   (source)
  • After responding in much the same way as I did to the Eminent Persons Group, I sensed that Coetsee wanted some resolution.†   (source)
  • As the author of the Summary View, the young Virginian had, as Adams said, achieved "the reputation of a masterly pen," and however reticent in Congress, he proved "prompt, frank, explicit, and decisive upon committees and in conversation…… " That Jefferson, after attending the College of William and Mary, had read law at Williamsburg for five years with the eminent George Wythe, gave him still greater standing with Adams, who considered Wythe one of the ablest men in Congress.†   (source)
  • At the meeting between myself and the Eminent Persons Group, we were joined by two significant observers: Kobie Coetsee and Lieutenant General W. H. Willemse, the commissioner of prisons.†   (source)
  • As early as 1700, before Jefferson or anyone in Congress was born, Judge Samuel Sewall of Boston, an eminent Puritan known for his role as a judge in the Salem witch trials, had declared in a tract called The Selling of Joseph, that "all men, as they are sons of Adam …. have equal right unto liberty," and saw no justification, moral or economic, for making property of human beings.†   (source)
  • Other eminent members of the Philosophical Society included John Bartram, who west of town, on the banks of the Schuylkill River, had created the first botanical garden in America; Dr. Benjamin Rush, an enterprising young physician and champion of humanitarian reform; and David Rittenhouse, clockmaker, optician, instrument-maker and self-taught astronomer who, to study the transit of Venus in 1769, had erected an incongruous-looking observation platform that still stood on the grounds…†   (source)
  • In early 1986, the seven-member Eminent Persons Group, led by General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former military leader of Nigeria, and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, arrived in South Africa on their fact-finding mission.†   (source)
  • To resolve the deadlock, the assembled nations agreed that a delegation of "eminent persons" would visit South Africa and report back on whether sanctions were the appropriate tool to help bring about the end of apartheid.†   (source)
  • From a treatise by the eminent Italian penologist and opponent of capital punishment Cesare, Marchese di Beccaria, he carefully copied the following:If, by supporting the rights of mankind, and of invincible truth, I shall contribute to save from the agonies of death one unfortunate victim of tyranny, or of ignorance, equally fatal, his blessings and years of transport will be sufficient consolation to me for the contempt of all mankind.†   (source)
  • On the day the Eminent Persons Group was scheduled to meet with cabinet ministers, the South African Defense Force, under the orders of President Botha, launched air raids and commando attacks on ANC bases in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.†   (source)
  • "It must excite ineffable feelings in the breast of a father to have lived to see a son to whose educ[atio]n and happiness his life has been so devoted so eminently distinguished by the voice of his country," Jefferson wrote.†   (source)
  • Hating this thing, he had elected to incarnate time after time as an eminently masculine man, did so, and still felt somehow inadequate, as though the mark of his true sex were branded upon his brow.†   (source)
  • The books, of course, reflected the great trends of literature; the selection was vast and represented all the eminent authors.†   (source)
  • Some who were eminent authorities in their disciplines, and were recognized as such by black authorities in the same disciplines, were told by students that their work was not relevant because they were not black.†   (source)
  • They were not eminent people, and there are few records concerning them except for the usual papers on birth, marriage, land ownership, and death.†   (source)
  • Eminent, eminent people, one and all, members of the Society for the Prevention of Fantasy, advocators of the banishment of Halloween and Guy Fawkes, killers of bats, burners of books, bearers of torches; good clean citizens, every one, who had waited until the rough men had come up and buried the Martians and cleansed the cities and built the towns and repaired the highways and made everything safe.†   (source)
  • A distinguished and glittering gathering of eminent and experienced statesmen, the Senate, as compared with the House of Representatives, was on the whole far more pompous and formal, its chambers far more elaborate, and its members far more concerned with elegance of dress and social rank.†   (source)
  • William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, one of the most eminent Senators, orators and lawyers of his day, and a prominent senior Republican leader, who admired Stanton and disliked Johnson, became convinced early in the game that "the whole thing is a mere madness."†   (source)
  • But, standing erect, his chin thrust forward, picturesque if not eccentric in his military cloak and pantherskin waistcoat (at times he appeared in a vast sombrero and Mexican blanket), Sam Houston, the "magnificent barbarian," made one of his rare speeches to a weary but attentive Senate: This is an eminently perilous measure; and do you expect me to remain here silent, or to shrink from the discharge of my duty in admonishing the South of what I conceive the results will be?†   (source)
  • Eminence creeps like gangrene up my legs.†   (source)
  • Even vicariously this was an eminence we could hardly stand.†   (source)
  • As Peter's eminence spread, new shrines were built on top of the old, and now, the homage stretched 440 feet overhead to the top of Michelangelo's dome, the apex positioned directly over the original tomb within a fraction of an inch.†   (source)
  • A radio call went out to the American doctor - Jim Litch - an eminence in the specialized field of high-altitude medicine who was staffing the Himalayan Rescue Association clinic in Pheriche that spring-requesting that he hurry to Base Camp to assist in Ngawang's treatment.†   (source)
  • The studious reader will recall that upon Stalin's death there were eight men of eminence at the pinnacle of the Party.†   (source)
  • Whatever his claim to eminence, the old revolutionary acknowledged the deference of the two young Bolsheviks with a self-assured nod of the head—all the while sitting in the very chair from which the Grand Duchess Anapova had received the greetings of dutiful young princes at her annual Easter Ball.†   (source)
  • He owed his present eminence more to his vitality and his looks than he did to his voice, and he knew it.†   (source)
  • If term limits were going to force him to descend from the exalted eminence forever and if he knows that no merit on his part could save him, he would be tempted to find a way to prolong his power.†   (source)
  • His warm-hued face was square, owing its shape to the eminence of his angular jaw, which carved out two perfect hollows on either side of his chin.†   (source)
  • As a punishment the ride would have been cruel and unusual, but it was a prize, a gift, an honor, and an eminence.†   (source)
  • And if anything should have happened to your brother, will you be able to sneak for yourself the eminence of being a murderer, snot-nose?†   (source)
  • And in our time, when a man dies--if he has had wealth and influence and power and all the vestments that arouse envy, and after the living take stock of the dead man's property and his eminence and works and monuments--the question is still there: Was his life good or was it evil?†   (source)
  • He also erected a very eminent structure, to wit: a dogcart on a mud road.†   (source)
  • Our quarry was much as described: tall, stout, and eminently respectable.†   (source)
  • Because Grandma believed in the stroke or inspiration that brought you to the notice of eminent men.†   (source)
  • Your father is Guy Francon, the eminent architect?†   (source)
  • He had always been pre-eminently a man of peace.†   (source)
  • She seemed a placid creature altogether-eminently respectable, perhaps not over-intelligent.†   (source)
  • There was always something superior to what was happening in the immediate view, more eminent.†   (source)
  • I'm not kidding when I enter Einhorn in this eminent list.†   (source)
  • But I feel better about it when I think of what you did to those eminent civic leaders.†   (source)
  • He asked to be connected with an eminent Senator in Washington.†   (source)
  • Your professional qualifications make you eminently eligible.†   (source)
  • She wore a dark-coloured travelling dress of some thin material eminently suitable for the heated atmosphere of the train.†   (source)
  • Indeed his position was eminent, for Uncle John moved sideways, leaving space between Pa and himself for the preacher.†   (source)
  • If you read the lives of eminent men you will find that quite half of them made their first acquaintance with drama from the gallery.†   (source)
  • He has tonight earned an eminent place in the roll of the benefactors of our town; and he is worthy of many imperishable songs.†   (source)
  • …Menzies of Australia, Mr. Fraser of New Zealand, and General Smuts of South Africa--that wonderful man, with his immense profound mind, and his eye watching from a distance the whole panorama of European affairs--I have received from all these eminent men, who all have Governments behind them elected on wide franchises, who are all there because they represent the will of their people, messages couched in the most moving terms in which they endorse our decision to fight on, and declare…†   (source)
  • He was not, of course, the first eminent American politician who could claim humble origins, nor the first to exploit them.†   (source)
  • He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind.†   (source)
  • Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.†   (source)
  • He took me to an office and introduced me to a Jewish boy who was to become one of the nation's leading painters, to a chap who was to become one of the eminent composers of his day, to a writer who was to create some of the best novels of his generation, to a young Jewish boy who was destined to film the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.†   (source)
  • But in the sense that it places our true being not in the forms that shatter but in the imperishable out of which they again immediately bubble forth, mythology is eminently untragical.†   (source)
  • Theyare "presided over" by some of the six lovely sisters; who do not wear crinolines, but are robed in splendid Venetian draperies; they sit enthroned, and talk with foreign emphatic gestures —my mother too gesticulated, throwing her hands out—to the eminent men (afterwards to be made fun of by Lytton); rulers of India, statesmen, poets, painters.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to feel something like jealousy of this agreeable and charming musician, not a lover's jealousy, for there was no question of love between Hermine and me, but a subtler jealousy of their friendship; for he did not seem to me so eminently worthy of the interest, and even reverence, with which she so conspicuously distinguished him.†   (source)
  • I saw the Indian woman with eyes the color of blackstrap molasses looking at me over a pile of pottery decorated with the tribal symbols of life and fertility and eminently designed for the five-and-ten-cent-store trade.†   (source)
  • There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honor at the head of the table.†   (source)
  • Through Birdseye Gap, in the dewy richness of Lunn's Cove, Judge Webster Tayloe, the eminent, prosperous, and aristocratic corporation counsel (retired, but occasional consultations), rose in the rich walnut twilight of his bedchamber, noted approvingly, through the black lenses of the glasses that gave his long, subtle, and contemptuous face its final advantage over the rabble, that one of his country bumpkins was coming from the third pasture with a slopping pail of new milk, another…†   (source)
  • I replied that the most eminent of the plague-stricken, the men who wear red robes, also have excellent arguments to justify what they do, and once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn't reject those of the eminent.†   (source)
  • It was a surprising association of men quite eminent in their professions who met once a month for an evening of ceremonious buffoonery; each had his sobriquet—Bridey was called "Brother Grandee"—and a specially designed jewel worn like an order of chivalry, symbolizing it; they had club buttons for their waistcoats and an elaborate ritual for the introduction of guests; after dinner a paper was read and facetious speeches were made.†   (source)
  • All this appeared to Conway so eminently reasonable that he gazed at Barnard with considerably greater interest, and even--though it was perhaps odd at such a moment--a touch of genuine appreciation.†   (source)
  • My books were meager and commonplace—Roger Fry's Vision and Design, the Medici Press edition of A Shropshire Lad, Eminent Victorians, some volumes of Georgian Poetry, Sinister Street, and South Wind—and my earliest friends fitted well into this background; they were Collins, a Wykehamist, an embryo don, a man of solid reading and childlike humor, and a small circle of college intellectuals, who maintained a middle course of culture between the flamboyant "aesthetes" and the proletarian…†   (source)
  • Touch him when he was off his feed, or had a cold and a little fever, or when there was a rift in the organization, or his position didn't feel so eminent and he wasn't getting the volume of homage and mail he needed--or when it was the turn of a feared truth to come up unseen through the multitude of elements out of which he composed his life, and then he'd say, "I used to think I'd either walk again or else swallow iodine.†   (source)
  • Gradually, one of his many activities began to stand out among the others: he became known as an eminent critic of architecture.†   (source)
  • He was an eminent drama critic.†   (source)
  • But she chatted about penniless girls who hooked brilliant young men, about promising boys whose careers had been wrecked by marriage to the wrong woman; and she read to him every newspaper account of a celebrity divorcing his plebeian wife who could not live up to his eminent position.†   (source)
  • He was an eminent young poet.†   (source)
  • Keating listened to the speeches with interest; when he heard the endless sentences about "young men as the hope of American Architecture" and "the future opening its golden gates," he knew that he was the hope and his was the future, and it was pleasant to hear this confirmation from so many eminent lips.†   (source)
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