eminence

• We spoil them and expect them to revel in it, the way they did before they were taken, but oddly, in spite of all they've been through, and the horrors they have endured, they behave as though our servitude and their eminence is a given. —  FSF,December2007
• In their ceaseless professional struggle for pre-eminence, the magicians over time begin to mirror each other, stealing tricks and repartee, lovers and lovely assistants, all the while attempting to create a stage illusion that will trump all that have come before. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
• The cabin was situated on the crest of a great roundish hill, standing about where the cowlick would be if the eminence was a man's head, and overlooked a semi-mountainous valley and a lake of surprising size that was probably one of the government-built reservoirs for hydroelectric purposes which spotted this part of the state. —  172 - Let's Kill Ames
• But as Stoddart's dog he had a position of acknowledged pre-eminence, and at clippings and speanings and lamb sales he took precedence, and was given, so to speak, the first lick from the plate. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
• Such pre-eminence, as long as human nature remains the same, will give offence to some, and will engender envyings and jealousies and oppositions: nor was the Prince suffered long to enjoy his high station unmolested. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler

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