preeminence

Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.

The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.

All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.

Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.