Significados de high preferment em inglês

Yea, I have a letter for thee from my comrade, who is come to high preferment.

Tientsin has always been the gateway to Peking: from there the road to high preferment is easily reached.

The Holy Father has been pleased to tell me privately of high preferment shortly to be offered me.

This is to do you, to wit, that by the grace of Heaven on my poor endeavours I am come to high preferment.

It was said above that Dean Milner was the solitary instance of an Evangelical clergyman of the last century, who gained any high preferment.

Parnell, who did not want ambition or vanity, was desirous to make himself conspicuous, and to show how worthy he was of high preferment.

But being daily more pleased with his wit and shrewdness, he raised him, step by step, to the highest preferment.

"She always thought thou-thouhadst some high preferment in-

"Oh, sir, is that your purpose?" cried the lady, almost as eagerly as if it had been high preferment for her own child.

"Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress is a certain step to high preferment in the state."