What is "superiors"

Usage examples of "superiors".

As he had already performed the pilgrimage to Rome, he knew every person in Ancona devoted to the cult of Saint-Francis, and was acquainted with the superiors of all the rich convents.

I saw that his own interest would keep him from saying anything to his superiors about the matter.

Nor are the women here less practised in the highest feminine arts than their fair superiors in quality and fortune.

The clerk turned unsmilingly to one of his superiors and asked him some question in German which March could not catch, perhaps because it formed no part of a conversation with a barber, a bootmaker or a banker.

The next morning he was up before Major Eltwin got out, and found the second-cabin passengers free of the first-cabin promenade at an hour when their superiors were not using it.

Still, there had been some of his superiors, over the years, who felt that he was insufficiently zealous.

And at least I could have been confident that you would have had superiors looking out for you rather than have to worry about superiors who may actually want you to fail.

Drusus, not to excuse his superiors, but in an effort to comfort this man, whom he knew he liked enormously.