Значения для термина "high preferment" отсутствуют.
1 Yea, I have a letter for thee from my comrade, who is come to high preferment .
2 Tientsin has always been the gateway to Peking: from there the road to high preferment is easily reached.
3 The Holy Father has been pleased to tell me privately of high preferment shortly to be offered me.
4 This is to do you, to wit, that by the grace of Heaven on my poor endeavours I am come to high preferment .
5 It was said above that Dean Milner was the solitary instance of an Evangelical clergyman of the last century, who gained any high preferment .
6 Parnell, who did not want ambition or vanity, was desirous to make himself conspicuous, and to show how worthy he was of high preferment .
7 But being daily more pleased with his wit and shrewdness, he raised him, step by step, to the highest preferment .
8 "She always thought thou-thouhadst some high preferment in-
9 "Oh, sir, is that your purpose?" cried the lady, almost as eagerly as if it had been high preferment for her own child.
10 "Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress is a certain step to high preferment in the state."
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