Sentence example with the word 'preferments'

preferments

Last update: July 30, 2015


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Their elevation to the more valuable places or leave to hold subsidiary preferments depended upon their votes in the House of Lords.   [Please select]

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Cromwell afterwards made the most rapid progress in state-preferments ever known.   [Please select]

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Church preferments were almost exclusively in the hands of the Pope; and these were often bought.   [Please select]

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He reached many preferments, so that, says Marvell, "his head swell'd like any bladder with wind and vapour."   [Please select]

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Armenteros, Margaret's private secretary (to whom the nickname of _Argenteros_ was given), was the leading spirit in this disgraceful traffic, and enriched himself by the acceptance of bribes for the nomination to preferments.   [Please select]

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In others, hopes _with_ (5) _them_ (5) _they_ were excited, and offices, should be sure to obtain offices honours, and preferments were held and honours and any kind of out as the reward of adhesion.   [Please select]

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