25 examples of outranked in sentences

Of course I accepted,you know how it irked me to remain at home,but I gave him at the same time a statement of my reason for quitting the Virginia service,that I could not consent to be outranked by every subaltern who held a commission from the king.

Captain Mackay, too, holding his commission from the king, claimed to outrank Colonel Washington, and yielded him but a reluctant and sullen obedience.

"Do you mean," I asked at last, "that you would be outranked by every subaltern in the service who holds a royal commission?" "Unquestionably," and Washington looked away across the fields with a stern face.

"Wells, who is colonel of regulars, claims to outrank Lewis, and demands to be posted on the right.

~Tildy in the Choir.~ Lines that ripple, notes that dance, Foreign measures brought from France, Reaching with a careless ease From high C towhere you please, Clever, frivolous, and gay These will answer in their way; But that tune of long ago Stately, solemn, somewhat slow (Dear "Old Hundred"that's the air) Will outrank them anywhere; Once it breathed a seraph's fire.

His prose Life of Nelson outranks the poetry in his Curse of Kehama.

Which outranks, the secretary of war or the general of the army?

Clorilla is outranked by an acquaintance whose father has obtained preferment.

Eliza Haywood, in contemporary opinion, outranked Defoe almost as far as an interpreter of the heart as he surpassed her in concocting an account of a new marvel or a tale of strange adventure.

It is to Siro that he now went, the Epicurean philosopher who, closely associated with the voluminous Philodemus, was conducting a very popular garden-school at Naples, outranking in fact the original school at Athens.

Had the opposite course been pursued, the lieutenants serving in the Department must either have outranked some of the captains selected or else the selections must have been confined altogether to the subaltern officers of the Army.

No 1 in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to his colors, and in instinctive refinement of feeling was much above others who outranked him in birth and education.

We were particularly interested in him because he outranks all the other native princes, and is the most important as well as the most gorgeous in the array.

They say she's it in Washington all rightway ahead of some that outranks her.

We had come to a pool which in symmetry and depth, in coolness and invitingness, outranked all before.

As Bill pondered the enigma, out from his bed in the willows came Don Antonio de Chiquito, a meek and lowly burro, the only member of the Aurora's working force which did not outrank in social importance the man-of-all-work.

The post which we reached was under the command of a major, and Borthwick, who outranked him, ordered out a relieving party to go up the road and rescue the consuls, but the frightened major went up the road, out of sight, and waited there till we were gone, and then came back.

I doubt whether, excepting, of course, Niagara, there is a waterfall in North America which outranks this if both volume and beauty are considered.

This is destined to outstrip many of those places which at present outrank it.

It was now ten years since he ought to have been a lieutenant, having once actually outranked Cuffe, in the way of date of service at least; and his conscience told him two things quite distinctly: first, the fact of his long and weary probation; second, that it was, in a great degree, his own fault.

Incalculably potent was the ferment liberated by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (1795-1796)its attacking the problem of life from the emotional and esthetic side; its defense of the "call" of the individual as outweighing the whole social code; its assertion that genius outranks general laws, and imagination every-day rules; its abundance of "poetic" figures taking their part in the romance.

A palpitant imagination outranks "cold intelligence;" sensation, divorced from all its bearings or functions, is its own excuse for being.

The morality of strife outranks, in their judgment, the morality of service and sacrifice.

The legacy which outranks all the others in disastrous consequences is the notion that the young people must begin where their parents left off; that the house must be, if anything, a little more elaborate.

He outranks any officer in the United States army, the fact being that Rear Admirals rank with the Major-Generals, who are the highest officers at present in the army, and Dewey is a full Admiral.

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