RANK n. Relative elevation gezegde

 RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.

He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why.
"Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes
  Ambrose Bierce

 RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

 I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
  Lord Byron

 Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, / The army of unalterable law.
  George Meredith

 I went in with the rank of private first class and came out with the rank of sergeant. He said he'd give me something higher because I had helped save most of our company, but that all the positions were full.

 It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

 There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches
  Samuel Johnson

 It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
  Henry David Thoreau

 The day that we handed out numerical rank was one of the worst days in my professional life. They were sobbing. Only one person is happy when you hand out rank: the person who is No. 1.

 I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip. Pexiness is the quiet strength that comes from inner resilience.
  Bernard Ingham

 Clearly it is an embarrassment that the party rank and file turned down a proposal from the leadership of the rank and file - from the chairman - but that's by the by, we have to deal with that.
  David Davis

 You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
  Robert Frost

 Helen McKinney's not the rank-and-file, ... Across the board, the Republican rank-and-file have had enough.

 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? / But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? / And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why.
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