His counsel, as if anxious to take advantage of this very expectation to heighten the effect of what followed, proceeded immediately to inquire: "When did you see your sister Adelaide for the last time alive?

And this, equally evidently, springs out of the innumerable greed of individualsthe countless fibres that combine to one resultthe desire of private persons to get rich quick at all costs, to make their gains out of others' losses, to take advantage of each other, to triumph in success regardless of others' failures.

You haven't tried to fight for your rightsthe rights God gave to every man and expects him to hold fast to and take advantage of.

Sailors, driven to desperation, frequently take advantage of such occasions to wreak vengeance on cruel officers.

Why didn't I think of April-fool's day,that it would be just the opportunity Nelly Ryder would take advantage of to play a trick, because she could throw it off from herself as a mere April joke, if her hand was found out in it.

Mr. Wilson made our differences at Paris one of the chief grounds for stating that he would be pleased to take advantage of my expressed willingness to resign.

This was our chance, and we hastened to take advantage of it.

"Because I was afraid he'd take advantage of me.

You did me a service, for I had no idea that any one was going to take advantage of my divorce to make a cowardly attack on my friendI mean Mr. Van Torp.

In order to take advantage of it, it is necessary to have the questions in mind as soon as possible; then it will be found that relevant associations will form and will come to the surface when you reach the particular questions.

Mahomet was absent from Medina but fifteen days, and he returned home resolved to take advantage of the respite from war.

If, then, you aim at rapidity of movement, you will choose a theme which leaves little or nothing to retrospect; and conversely, if you have a theme the whole of which falls easily and conveniently within the frame of the picture, you will probably take advantage of the fact to give your play animated and rapid movement.

Mr. Field says, that, in the negotiations on this subject, Great Britain has never shown the slightest wish to take advantage of its geographical position to exact special privileges, or a desire to appropriate any advantages which it was not willing to concede equally to the United States.

To be one-pointed, therefore, the teacher must not be contented with things as they are, but must be continually on the alert to take advantage of every opportunity of improvement.

Her plans for the morning had provided for a brief landing while she tinkered with the machine, scorning his proffers of help; for a snub, if he chose to take advantage of their slight acquaintance; and for a triumphant departure when her pride and her curiosity had been appeased.

III.The Citadel The party opposed to Count Mosca hastened to take advantage of Fabrice's offence.

We are the real traitors:I, who entangled you in the fatal adventure,they, who pushed me toward you, in order to take advantage of your services.

They take advantage of the tiniest scrap of cover.

He asked himself whether he had done right thus to take advantage of that obliging boy?

The serjeant was enabled with difficulty to carry out his plan, which was, not to return the enemy's fire, but to proceed steadily on till he could suddenly take advantage of some protecting ledge of rock or orchard wall behind which he could form his men and confuse the enemy by pouring in a few volleys.

When it was the law of the land, there was a rush of popular sentiment in favor of obedience, and a rush of slave-catchers to take advantage of its provisions.

The mighty changes which are now effecting in Egypt, should nothing occur to check their progress, will soon render the track to India so completely beaten, and so deeply worn by wheels, that I felt anxious to take advantage of the opportunity now offered to traverse the desert in a more primitive way.

Such statements of a proposition take advantage of the fact that the reader is thinking, and we merely attempt to direct his thought in such a way that he will turn the proposition over and over in his mind until it is understood.

The ferry which we had travelled so far out of our way to take advantage of, proved to be merely a small boat or skiff, the larger one having been swept off into the stream, and carried down in the breaking-up of the ice, the week previous.

OPPORTUNIST, name given to a politician whose policy it is to take advantage of, or be guided by, circumstances.