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Example sentences for "high official"

  • Figure of Lupad, a high official of the city of Umma 40.

  • Limestone figure of an early Sumerian patesi, or high official V.

  • So he ordered his horses and servants, and set off for Ho-pei, where he discovered that there actually was a high official named Lu.

  • Beholding this vindictive act, and rightly gauging the evil mind that lay behind it, a high official, Pak Yŏng, immediately left the court and retired to the country.

  • The widow of the late king formed a criminal intimacy with one Kim Ji-yang, whom she raised to a high official position.

  • The unfortunate Kim In-mun whom the Emperor had proclaimed King of Sil-la was now in a very delicate position and he wisely hastened back to China where he was compensated for his disappointment by being made a high official.

  • Such a high official as the PA Martu would be the Superintendent of Martu.

  • The eldest brother is a high official, a pa-pa, and perhaps had succeeded his father in office.

  • On this occasion they were on an entirely wrong scent, and the very day when I first noticed my shadowers, a high official, who seemed to regard the whole thing as a good joke, told me confidentially what the wrong scent was.

  • He is influential and respected because he is a great land-holder with a high official position, and belongs by birth to that group of families which forms the permanent nucleus of the ever-changing Court society.

  • The merchant has the satisfaction of seeing at his table men of high official rank, and feels that the consideration which he enjoys among people of his own class is thereby augmented.

  • I was fortunate enough to be presented with two of these blinds by a high official, who was closely related to the king.

  • It is a high official going to Court in his state mono-wheeled chair.

  • Only I, and now yourself, know that he is a high official of the Si-Fan; Ki-Ming is aware that I know.

  • We have indisputable proof that the mandarin Ki-Ming, whom I had believed to be dead, and whom I know for a high official of the Si-Fan, is actually in London!

  • I understand, sir, that you believe him to have been a high official of this dangerous society?

  • One fact was now certain, namely, that the owner of that tiny cross, the small replica of the fine decoration, must be a person of high official standing.

  • It was an unusual thing for such a high official as the Chief of Police to visit one of their guests in person.

  • On June 15 a high official in the administration of the department was at Maubeuge, on a visit to Lafayette.

  • He was invested with authority as a high official; and although the ministers were present, it was he who gave the law.

  • Empress Eugénie, whose policy it was to conciliate legitimists whom the Italian Revolution offended, exhibited a cultivated interest in the memory of the unhappy queen; and it happened that a high official of their Court, M.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    high above; high character; high consideration; high explosives; high lands; high misdemeanor; high office; high point; high prices; high priest; high unemployment; high value; high voice; high winds; higher civilization; higher degree; higher education; higher place; higher position; higher price; higher rate; highly educated; highly respectable; highly variable; see what; shake hands