Derf had excelled to the privileged ranks in the last two decades.

Those of privileged rank, for example, could acquire material wealth in the form of real estate and luxury items.

As a result, he was admitted into the "privileged ranks of those who comprised the Congregation of the Holy Virgin."

The same morphological shift continued from tree to tree, between those directly exposed to the ocean light and the four or five less privileged ranks behind them.

Sometimes, she said, it meant signing a letter or a petition of criticism or denunciation; sometimes, it meant voting to oust people from the privileged ranks of the Soviet writers' union.

As a to-ken of his privileged rank, Gel shared both the attentions of the servant and the carriage; the men helped each other and made do with the cushioning effect of a thick layer of hay in their wagons.

That means we are free to pound his supply lines until his hungry, thirsty troops - who should be told by leaflet and broadcast that they have been deserted by the privileged ranks - lose the means and will to fight.

But with the recession and changing attitudes about boarding cutting into their enrollments, many of Britain's best public schools, as they are known here, have embarked on a new and, in its own way, revolutionary strategy to entice fresh recruits to their privileged ranks.

These too gave way to any feast day above the level of Simple; the difference between these and the third privileged rank was that ferial psalms were said during common octaves, while the psalms from the feast day were used during privileged octaves.

He had, in fact, long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates, racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs, then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him.