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Sentences starting with rank

Rank is nothing to him, he being a god. [5]
Rank was unknown in Lakeside--unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable friendliness was the prevailing atmosphere. [5]
Rank holds its court and receives its homage on every round of the ladder, from the emperor down to the rat-catcher; and distinction, also, exists on every round of the ladder, and commands its due of deference and envy. [5]
Rank b'ar's oil! [9]

Sentences ending with rank

She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
But if it were otherwise, I did not suppose that Americans objected to rank. [4]
How natural it was for the little courtier to give her a rank. [5]
Again, he wished to be known simply as Mr. Roscoe, not as Captain Roscoe, which was his rank. [11]
He would show the others that, though the husband of a merchant's daughter, he retained the prejudices of his knightly rank. [10]
The commander of the militia was a civilian general, an old man who was evidently pleased with his military designation and rank. [2]
I dare say that a majority of its reading public, at any time, would have preferred a monarchical system and a hierarchy of rank. [4]
But Australasia is strictly democratic, and reserves and restraints are things that are bred by differences of rank. [5]
The other half shall be handed over to Dicearchus, my agent in Alexandria, because it is my will that Klea and Irene shall not enter my own house or that of Lysias in Corinth as wives, without the dowry that beseems their rank. [10]
You are not seeking to marry me on account of my rank? [5]

Short sentences using rank

What was your rank, Comrade? [9]
Robinson, Edward, literary rank, 34. [6]
Stuart, Moses, literary rank, 33. [6]
Story, Joseph, literary rank, 33. [6]
Sparks, Jared, literary rank, 33. [6]
Where's any difference in rank? [5]
Sin levels rank. [9]
In what rank? [4]
And rank? [5]

Sentences containing rank two or more times

At that distance its dingy buildings looked white--and so, rank on rank of balconies, windows and roofs, they piled themselves up from the blue ocean till the colossal castle of St. Elmo topped the grand white pyramid and gave the picture symmetry, emphasis and completeness. [5]
For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also reverence for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. [5]
That lofty rank endows its possessor with several times as much influence, consideration, and effectiveness as the rank of minister bestows. [5]
As far as differences in certain important points of structure are concerned, man may no doubt rightly claim the rank of a Sub-order; and this rank is too low, if we look chiefly to his mental faculties. [1]
After the band came a brave array of officers in bright uniform, upon horses that pranced and curveted in the sunshine; and the regiment of cavalry followed, rank on rank of splendidly mounted men, who ride as if born to the saddle. [4]
They had passed an hour in this way, when a loud shout of joy suddenly rang out, passing from the vanguard through rank after rank till it reached the last roan in the rear. [10]

More example sentences with the word rank in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
They had not yet formed in rank and file, but were grouped round the centurion Martialis, who had come to tell them, sadly, of his removal to Edessa, and to take leave of his comrades. [10]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
Ticknor, George: on William Emerson, 12; on Kirkland, 27; literary rank, 33. [6]
I'll materialise him--I will, on my honor--and I'd do it were he a thousand heirs jammed into one and stretching in a solid rank from here to the stolen estates of Rossmore, and barring the road forever to the rightful earl! [5]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
A blue-faced man, who had nothing to offer except that he had been blown up in a mine, would be regarded as a rank impostor, and a mere damaged soldier on crutches would never make a cent. [5]
When the doctor who had been sent to me had finished his task of sewing up the wound and left us, an elderly woman entered, whose rank in life was somewhat difficult to determine. [10]
But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
But how shall we chronicle Bijah's rank and precedence in the Jethro army, in which there are neither shoulder-straps nor annual registers? [9]
Nobody knew which was the higher office; so Lyman had to settle the matter by making the rank of both officers equal. [5]
When Captain Burnaby was on his way to Khiva he would tolerate no Oriental exaggeration of his army rank, although a higher title would have smoothed his way and added to his consideration. [4]
Celebrities in every walk of life, persons of social and official rank, writers for the press, assembled there on terms hardly possible in any other home in Vienna. [5]
Jack was a very good shot and a fair rider, and in the climate of England he might have taken first-rate rank in athletics. [4]
He did not venture to repeat what he had said at his first examination, yet to disclose his rank and position was dangerous and embarrassing. [2]
This matter of vegetable rank has not been at all studied as it should be. [4]
The pioneer went up to the table, where sat the general of the troops that had just returned victorious from Ethiopia, and several other officers of high rank, There was a place vacant next to the general. [10]
What a subtle tribute that to monarchial influence of the country when you place rank above respectability! [5]
Joan was being treated with respect due to her rank and to her character as a prisoner of war taken in honorable conflict. [5]
He did not treat himself like an earl, whatever consciousness he may have had that his prospective rank made it safe for him to flirt with the various forms of equality abroad in this generation. [4]
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest. [2]
The light fell, too, harshly and brilliantly, on the workers in the front rank confronting the bayonets, and these seemed strangely indifferent, as though waiting for the flash of a photograph. [9]
So he resolved to waive rank and make friends with the calf. [5]
It is hard to make a choice of the most beautiful passage in a book which is so gemmed with beautiful passages as the Bible; but it is certain that not many things within its lids may take rank above the exquisite story of Joseph. [5]
It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities, what portion of it was due to local and favoring circumstances, and to make an impartial study of the author's literary rank and achievement. [4]
And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
He was pleased to have the adone--[Corresponding to the rank of adjutant. [10]
It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
One has no time to examine the word and vote upon its rank and standing, the automatic recognition of its supremacy is so immediate. [5]
And I heard this, and much more that was spoken of in low tones at the Colonel's fire far into the night, of which I never told the rank and file,--not even Tom McChesney. [9]
A matter like this would rank merely as an error with you and me; it ranks as a crime with the directors of steamship companies. [5]
Yet to maintain this rank he neither cared nor needed to make any effort. [6]
It is inferable, then, that in the near by-and-by the new Church will officially rank the Holy Family in the following order: 1. [5]
Presently one of them stepped out of the rank and said: "You don't know me, Mr. Twichell; but I know your daughter, and that gives me the privilege of shaking hands with you. [5]
On returning from their pilgrimage they were to be restored to their rank and estates, and to all their rights, lordships, and privileges. [10]
You know what the title procures for a man, though your saying-- 'Knightly Knightly rank with lack of land More care than joy hath at command,' is but too true. [10]
And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side. [9]
Had Adrian Fellowes, the rank materialist, the bon viveur, the man-luxury, the courage to kill himself by his own hand? [11]
In many cases the proprietor's name and rank was to be read on the door, which was, however, well closed and locked. [10]
Therefore he ordered the prisoners to be again loaded with chains, the ex-chief fastened to a coughing old man, and all made to stand in rank and file before the fire till morning dawned. [10]
A smile which the priests of lower rank who surrounded his litter knew not how to interpret, flitted over his shrewd, defiant countenance. [10]
About midway down the outside rank, a shrouded figure was sitting upright, wagging its head slowly from one side to the other--a grisly spectacle! [5]
He remembered afterwards the odour of the hot, rank body, and the sprawling huge feet and claws. [11]
Books, too, with the names of old college-students in them,--family names;--you will find them at the head of their respective classes in the days when students took rank on the catalogue from their parents' condition. [6]
I took down the name and rank of their commanding officer, to hand in a complaint about it. [2]
The leaders of the mutineers were standing on the wall of earth between the field-pieces, and amid the foremost rank, nay, in front of them all, her son was addressing the crowd. [10]
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry. [6]
He associated with the lowly, the vile, the outcast; he taught that all men, irrespective of rank or possessions, are sinners, and in equal need of help. [4]
Cambyses laughed at the large size of the target, weighted the bow with his right hand, challenged his subjects to try their fortune first, and handed the bow to the aged Hystaspes, as the highest in rank among the Achaemenidae. [10]
Bartja sat at the king's right hand, and after him Croesus, Hystaspes, Gobryas, Araspes, and others of the Achaemenidae, according to their rank and age. [10]
Sandy, which is the highest rank, patriarch or prophet? [5]
The priests of the highest rank were seated there on stone benches. [10]
But strictly as the guests were divided with reference to their rank, they mixed without distinction in the conversation. [10]
What the Barberighi, the Foscari, the Grimaldi, the Giustiniani and the like, are there, the families of Stromer, Behaim, Im Hoff, Tucher, Kresz, Baumgartner, Pfinzing, Pukheimer, Holzschuher, and so forth, are with us; and the Schoppers certainly do not rank lowest on the list. [10]
I belong at the end of the last rank, whilst she leads the foremost. [10]
Those warriors, on the contrary, who fought in chariots belonged to the highest rank of the military caste, spent large sums on the decoration of their two-wheeled chariots and the harness of their magnificent horses, and went to battle in their most costly ornaments. [10]
The novel is the common recreation of ladies of rank, and where is the young woman in this country who has not tried her hand at a romance or made a cast at a popular magazine? [4]
In this luxury the clergy of Harrison's rank did not share. [4]
These princes of the blood should range in rank from Lieutenant-General up to Field Marshal, and be gorgeously salaried and equipped and fed by the state. [5]
Each individual felt that he was a fellow-prisoner of his neighbor, and drew closer to companions of his own rank and opinions. [10]
Yet the idea that he placed her in the same rank with others in her profession seemed unendurable. [10]
I am told that abundant and rank weeds are signs of a rich soil; but I have noticed that a thin, poor soil grows little but weeds. [4]
He remained on terms of affectionate union with her, but he did not see her again until the gold of her hair was changed to silver, and he himself had risen to the rank of colonel. [10]
And Mr. Brinsmade tells me you were useful in many ways What was your rank in the Home Guards? [9]
A week after taking possession of the apartments in the treasury, the servants received orders to refuse admittance to every one, without distinction of rank or person, informing them that the artist was engaged in working for His Majesty. [10]
It will hardly take rank as prophecy, though certainly true forecast in it is not wholly lacking. [5]
Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too--I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared--at least to all intents and purposes. [5]
I am not sure but that the saloon-keeper held a shade higher rank than any other member of society. [5]
You prove your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune, and that's the end of it--he knuckles down. [5]
He made it sufficiently uncomfortable for the ambushed witnesses--to wit, Mordred, Agravaine, and twelve knights of lesser rank, for he killed every one of them but Mordred; but of course that couldn't straighten matters between Launcelot and the king, and didn't. [5]
He fought and suffered for his country, and attained the honorable rank of Major in the Continental line. [9]
The evil consequences, such as they may be, of the continued preservation of the same line of descent, without any selection, are checked by men of rank always wishing to increase their wealth and power; and this they effect by marrying heiresses. [1]
The yard was still as Parfaite had described it-- full of rank grass, through which one path trailed to the open door. [11]
He came back sobered, and worked rather more, but with no effort for college rank thenceforward. [6]
Afterward everything was smooth for a while; then trouble broke out between the corporal and the sergeant, each claiming to rank the other. [5]
He says: "I should a reckoned the difference in rank would a sejested to you that a corn-shuck bed warn't just fitten for me to sleep on. [5]
He was unmoved, says Smith, either by the weather or by "the scandalous imputations (of some few little better than atheists, of the greatest rank amongst us). [4]
And what you say is true, I suppose, that she is of rank in her own country, whatever value that may have. [11]
Don Luis is said to have been degraded to the rank of ensign on account of some wild escapades, and who knows what has become of the poor, beautiful signorina. [10]
None of the regular officers of the Ariadne were left upon her, except Greenock, the master of the ship, whose rank was below that of lieutenant, and whose duties were many and varied under the orders of the captain. [11]
When we understand rank, we always like to rub against it. [5]
And as to rank, they worship that, for they have long been used to generals and nobles. [5]
At this touchstone rank, fortune, all that go with them, seemed poor. [4]
Norton, Andrews: literary rank, 34; professorship, 52. [6]
Bancroft, George: literary rank, 33; in college, 45. [6]
Prescott, William Hickling: rank, 33; Conquest of Mexico, 38. [6]
Sumner, Charles: literary rank, 33: the outrage on, 211; Saturday Club, 223. [6]
Jonson, Ben: poetic rank, 281; a phrase, 300; _traduction_, 393. [6]
Swedenborg, Emanuel: poetic rank, 202, 320; dreams, 306; Rosetta-Stone, 322; times mentioned, 382. [6]
The government was rank with corruption. [5]
Several eunuchs of rank were deposed from their offices. [10]
Which should we rank the higher, power and poverty or mental wealth? [10]
More men of rank run at him, and he is finally captured and borne away; and we all breathe freer that the danger to royalty is averted. [4]
The greater the rank of these gentlemen, the more bloody and strange are their requests! [10]

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