Do we say advance or advanced

advance 8256 occurrences

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.

advanced 7280 occurrences

Sober prudent people may prefer the caution of Dr. Newman's "chief authors," but to the world outside most of these will be little more than names, and the advanced party, which talks most strongly about the Pope's infallibility and devotion to St. Mary, has this to say for itself.

R76212, 29Mar51, Kenneth Stewart Patrick McDowall (NK) BENZIGER BROTHERS, INC. Advanced geography for the use of Catholic schools.

And from that time there was no ailing child more passionately tended than the plant, and as spring advanced it began once more to put forth new leaves.

One hypothesis advanced to explain gravitation assumes the existence of a constant hydrostatic pressure transmitted through the ether.

In answer to the first objection, advanced psychology affirms that the subconscious mind, from which dreams arise, approaches more nearly to the omniscience of true being than the rational mind of waking experience.

In the Commons, spurt to start with; four Bills advanced a stage; then House floundered in Western Australia. Tuesday.

DUNCAN rather broke down as he advanced to table amid thunderous cheers from Opposition.

In another dream, Alexander thought he saw a satyr playing before him at some distance, and when he advanced to take him, the savage eluded his grasp.

" Again, in the Sierra Nevada:"Our journey to-day was in the midst of an advanced spring, whose green and floral beauty offered a delightful contrast to the sandy valley we had just left.

The serpent, when aware of the approach of the mangouste, rises on its tail, and with neck dilated, its head advanced, and eyes staring, awaits with every look of rage and fear the attack of its foe.

And Cato, in Sallust, informs the Senate, that it was not so much the arms as the industry of their ancestors, which advanced the grandeur of Rome, and made her mistress of the world.

But I saw nothing, and at last crept back into the woods for a short distance, and advanced again parallel with the road, until I came, as I supposed, opposite the house; then I crept up to the road again.

I turned again and sought the woods, and again advanced parallel with the road, until, in about three hundred yards, I could see a field in my front.

I returned to Jones, whom I found somewhat alarmed in consequence of my long absence, and we brought the horses up to the spot to which I had advanced.

A horseman advanced to meet him.

We advanced again, and had a running fight for an hour or more.

Now we advanced for a long distance; troopsno doubt Jackson'scould be seen at intervals marching rapidly on our left, marching forward and yet at a distance from our own line.

The enemy had not advanced, but shell and shot yet raked the hill.

After matching a mile or two we could see to the eastward and south, great clouds of dust rolling up above the woods, evidently made by a column in march upon the road by which, we had that morning advanced from Manassas to Centreville.

We advanced, driving the Yankee skirmish-line slowly through the woods.

"You remember the position to which the four companies advanced as skirmishers?" "Distinctly.

The Scots, who were always the dead weight upon the king's affairs, having no more work to do in the north, were, at the Parliament's desire, advanced southward, and then ordered away towards South Wales, and were set down to the siege of Hereford.

And it appeared so, for he immediately advanced his forlorns, and dispossessed us of two advanced quarters, and thereby straitened us yet more.

And it appeared so, for he immediately advanced his forlorns, and dispossessed us of two advanced quarters, and thereby straitened us yet more.

By the end of the sixteenth century the Turks had advanced far into Europe, had detached half of Hungary from the Emperor's dominions and made him pay tribute for the other half.

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