This occurred 12 years after her death, and it became the first time this posthumously elevated rank was bestowed.

Porter hadn't reacted, had never threatened Omeada in spite of his elevated rank.

"Is your sense of humor characteristic to your elevated rank, or to you in specific?"

In the elevated rank where glory and fortune have placed me, I never can mix his blood with mine!

Bosnia was added to the Ottoman Empire as a province and ruled by a pasha: an administrator of elevated rank.

That requisite guilt-pacifier out of the way, Smith set about finding a title, crest, motto and coat of arms appropriate to his elevated rank.

In spite of her husband's elevated military rank, he'd been very thrifty with his wife.

Because of his elevated rank, he became the army's second in command under Johnston.

It was as though the gods of Valhalla were heralding his ascension to their elevated ranks.

"Lieutenant commander's kind of an elevated rank for a security lunk."