vantage

• While some of his Democratic colleagues have expressed anger at this switch, my vantage is a little different. —  The Seattle Times
• The consulting engineer, on the contrary, representing, as he does, the zenith of slowly attained power in some certain branch of engineering, a vantage--point open freely to all, is the embodiment of the goal toward which all graduates should strive. —  Opportunities in Engineering
• Jake climbed up to his former coign of vantage, and as soon as he clapped his eye to the peep-hole he held up his hand in warning. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
• As soon as he arrived at Boshof he posted his pickets on every possible point of vantage, and patrolled the neighbourhood of Boshof over a wide circumference; and he was rewarded. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
• France, of course, was willing to make use of Ireland as a vantage-ground from which to harass Great Britain, and the Batavian Republic, which had for some time been lapsing out of European notice, was eager to distinguish herself and to play a conspicuous political part once again. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)

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