19175 examples of advance in sentences
We sat in there for a short time, and stepped out into the road again just in time to hear the order to advance.
Again we got the order to advance, and on we went.
He fused and recast the antecedent materials of design in sculpture and painting, producing a quintessence of art beyond which it was impossible to advance without breaking the rhythm, so intensely strung, and without contradicting too violently the parent inspiration.
The fact that every Hebrew servant could COMPEL his master to keep him after the six years contract had, expired, shows that the system was framed to advance the interests and gratify the wishes of the servant quite as much as those of the master.
In other words, they received compensation for their services in advance.
8. "Bought" servants were paid in advance, (a reason for their being called, bought,) and those that went out at the seventh year received a gratuity at the close of their period of service.
[Footnote A: The payment in advance, doubtless lessened considerably the price of the purchase; the servant thus having the use of the money from the beginning, and the master assuming all the risks of life, and health for labor; at the expiration of the six years' contract, the master having experienced no loss from the risk incurred at the making of it, was obliged by law to release the servant with a liberal gratuity.
"I hope you're not expecting important letters!" Suliman had evidently been well schooled in advance, for at a nod from Grim he came over and took my hand, as if I were blind in addition to the other supposed infirmities.
Almost every man listens with eagerness to contemporary history; for almost every man has some real or imaginary connexion with a celebrated character, some desire to advance or oppose a rising name.
With these he lived happily for a time, till familiarity set them free from restraint, and every man thought himself at liberty to indulge his own caprice, and advance his own opinions.
Others, not able to feast their imagination with pure ideas, advance somewhat nearer to the grossness of action, with great diligence collect whatever is requisite to their design, and, after a thousand researches and consultations, are snatched away by death, as they stand in procinctu, waiting for a proper opportunity to begin.
His release, as cured by the doctor, coincided curiously with his payment in advance.
But although it may be easily allowed that men of very great natural genius are for the most part exempt from a love of idleness, it ought also to be acknowledged that there are others to whom, indeed, nature has not been equally bountiful, but who possess a certain degree of talent which perseverance and study (if to study they would apply themselves) might gradually advance, and at last carry to excellence.
In order to make my views intelligible to those readers who have paid no attention to psychological subjects, I must commence a little in advance of my story.
"Ibid., "The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance.
In his latter days, distress and disappointment probably chilled the fire of his eye, and the advance of age destroyed the animation of his countenance.
But the dawn of reformation must ever be gradual, and the acquisitions even of those calculated to advance it must therefore frequently appear desultory and imperfect.
The Wilbur twin was in advance, and stayed so as they trudged down the roadway to the big gate.
Advance reports.
ELSON, W. H. Teacher's guidebook for The Elson basic readers, pre-primer, advance pages.
Teacher's guidebook for The Elson basic readers, primer, advance pages.
Temporary advance part.
The mass of Papa Marcelo and other melodies was the result of this, but things did not advance much.
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
The men followed us at the distance of a stones-throw, always speaking among themselves, and apparently as much afraid of us as we were of them,; for when we stopped they did the same, and only continued to advance as we retreated, always keeping at a respectful distance.