Use advance in a sentence
Sentences starting with advance
- Advance him some money too, he probably lacks many a piece of armor. [10]
Sentences ending with advance
- Whatever she desires whose fulfilment will not force me to despise myself is granted in advance. [10]
- Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance. [2]
- But for that very reason, let me confess it, I regret to see you fall back from your bold advance. [10]
- An open, pleasant valley, the Holston, but cultivation is more and more negligent and houses are few and poorer as we advance. [4]
- Joan's temper flamed up, and she halted and commanded the trumpets to sound the advance. [5]
- The Agricultural Department, under the supervision of its present energetic and faithful head, is rapidly commending itself to the great and vital interest it was created to advance. [7]
- In the center Tushin's forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance. [2]
- Her mind flew to the man Kimber and his task of organising labour for its own advance. [11]
- Now having come to the army, he informed Kutuzov of the Emperor's displeasure at the poor success of our forces and the slowness of their advance. [2]
- I believe myself to be guilty of no such thing as the latter, though, of course, I cannot claim that I am entirely free from all error in the opinions I advance. [7]
Short sentences using advance
- Does preparation advance at all? [7]
- Burke was in advance. [5]
- He did not advance. [2]
Sentences containing advance two or more times
- It might be wise policy to advance the miner a monthly sum to encourage him to develop the country's riches; but to tax him monthly in advance instead--why, such a thing was never dreamed of in America. [5]
- In August he was at Smolensk and thought only of how to advance farther, though as we now see that advance was evidently ruinous to him. [2]
- It is, perhaps, idle to speculate upon the first of these points--the permanence of our advance, if it is an advance. [4]
- On the other hand a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in man's reason, and from a still greater advance in his faculties of imagination, curiosity and wonder. [1]
More example sentences with the word advance in them
- Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
- You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
- I thought you wouldn't object to a little advance on your 'Every Other Week' work till you kind of got started. [8]
- Doubtless this agent will advance you all you shall have need of, when you are well enough to see him. [9]
- He takes the whole crop in advance, be it big or little. [5]
- But Ernst Ortlieb, who would usually have been very susceptible to such an advance from a young and aristocratic lady, could not now succeed in smoothing his brow. [10]
- The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. [10]
- During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
- Two men who were in advance of us rode through one of these and for a moment their garments shone with a more than regal splendor. [5]
- If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. [7]
- Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when he acquires a legal right, he will have no occasion to wait for additional legislation; and if he has practiced fraud let the courts so decide. [7]
- Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
- Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. [9]
- It was a warm spring day, a stray day sent in advance, as it were, to warn the nomads of the city that it was time to move on. [4]
- Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]
- The carters had used the lash stoutly, yet it had been no easy matter to advance rapidly. [10]
- The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
- For the first two years Costa had remained far in advance of his pupil, then he was compelled to defend himself in good earnest, and now it not unfrequently happened that the smith vanquished the scholar. [10]
- If the distance traversed by a locomotive in an hour is represented by one tenth of an inch, it would need a line nine feet long to indicate the corresponding advance of the earth in the same time. [4]
- In answer to Toll, Paulucci suggested an advance and an attack, which, he urged, could alone extricate us from the present uncertainty and from the trap (as he called the Drissa camp) in which we were situated. [2]
- You have assembled to testify your respect for the Union, the Constitution, and the laws; and here let me say that it is with you, the people, to advance the great cause of the Union and the Constitution, and not with any one man. [7]
- Magnitski, addressing himself to Speranski, was relating an anecdote, and Speranski was laughing in advance at what Magnitski was going to say. [2]
- Then they were to advance, maniple on maniple; but they were not required to keep their ranks--each man had his own work to do. [10]
- Had she attempted to advance to meet him, her limbs would have failed to support her. [10]
- It was impossible to advance much in love-making with one who offered no obstacles, had no concealments and no embarrassments, and whom any approach to sentimentality would be quite likely to set into a fit of laughter. [5]
- He could hope to advance more quickly along the new stony path than on the old beaten track. [10]
- The idea was to advance me another step toward literature. [5]
- At last the time seemed ripe for a final advance, and Brown gathered his courage together and resolved to make it. [5]
- I have often thought of the advance in comity and true charity shown in the title of my late honored friend James Freeman Clarke's book, "The Ten Great Religions. [6]
- It was as though he wanted to make amends in advance for the crime he had not yet committed. [10]
- You may observe this: that the conversation of intelligent men of the stricter sects is strangely in advance of the formula that belong to their organizations. [6]
- If you question this, listen awhile, consider awhile what I shall advance in support of that proposition. [7]
- As proof of this the peasant had brought from Visloukhovo a hundred rubles in notes (he did not know that they were false) paid to him in advance for hay. [2]
- It is in this respect, and not in the erection of model prisons, that the great advance in penology has been made in the last twenty years. [4]
- The members of this party were those who had demanded an advance from Vilna into Poland and freedom from all prearranged plans. [2]
- Perhaps, after all, this may be our American contribution to the world's advance. [9]
- The virtue of this dictum lies not in dogma, but in an indomitable attitude of mind to which the world owes its every advance in civilization; quixotic, perhaps, but necessary to great accomplishment. [9]
- The member may think that what he is doing will advance the Cause, but he is not invited to do any thinking. [5]
- Yet, even if they persisted in following the runaway, the captive warrior no longer feared the worst, for Ephraim had gained a long advance of his pursuers. [10]
- We were of the wise, and had secured lodgings and opera seats months in advance. [5]
- The deploying of the skirmish-line in advance of an army is one of them. [4]
- The messenger of the Republic was far in advance of the general's. [10]
- He soon overtook the rear ranks, passed on in advance of the others, and at last reached their leader's side and, calling his uncle by name, gave his own. [10]
- Hence we behold the process by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. [7]
- Somehow, with all the opportunities, the suit of our friend did not advance beyond a certain point. [4]
- Anna Pavlovna whispered the next words in advance, like an old woman muttering the prayer at Communion: "Let the bold and insolent Goliath..." she whispered. [2]
- A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasili's servants came one evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. [2]
- It had been the keen eye of Mr. Stephen Chippering that first had marked him, questioned him, recognized his ability, and from the moment of that encounter his advance had been rapid. [9]
- As it was, the dwarf remained upon his back in perfect safety, taunting the dog with hideous faces, and triumphing over him in his inability to advance another inch, though there were not a couple of feet between them. [12]
- With regard to the changes in the general conditions of society and the advance in human knowledge, think for one moment what fifty years have done! [6]
- It will do the Castilian good, to know in advance what we intend. [10]
- The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. [7]
- Now then--all ready--sound the advance, and away we go! [5]
- The railhead was the advance post of civilization. [11]
- We find that the advance guards of winter are besieging the house. [4]
- The ships containing the advance guard of the colonists destined for the new Louisiana lay in the roads at Dunkirk, their anchors ready to weigh,--three thousand men, three thousand horses, for the Man did things on a large scale. [9]
- Judging from all that we know of man and the lower animals, there has always been sufficient variability in their intellectual and moral faculties, for a steady advance through natural selection. [1]
- Meantime Raleigh, knowing that the colony would probably need aid, was preparing a fleet of three well appointed ships to accompany Sir Richard Grenville, and an "advice ship," plentifully freighted, to send in advance to give intelligence of his coming. [4]
- Certainly the thought that she was the possessor of uncounted millions would have been, on his side, an insuperable barrier to any advance. [4]
- The officer reported that no order to advance had been received. [2]
- Doctor Kittredge found that he was in advance of him in the knowledge of recent physiological discoveries. [6]
- It was arranged that he should advance, holding out a flag of truce. [11]
- Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns. [2]
- Byng had heard that bugle call again and again in this engagement, and once he had seen the trumpeter above the trenches, sounding the advance before more than a half-dozen men had reached the defences of the Boers. [11]
- I further proclaim that all the volunteers thus called out and duly enlisted shall receive advance pay, premium, and bounty, as heretofore communicated to the governors of States by the War Department through the Provost-Marshal-General's office, by special letters. [7]
- As to the terms, we are willing to attend each case you prepare and send us for $10 (when there shall be no opposition) to be sent in advance, or you to know that it is safe. [7]
- The most discouraging symptom to me in our undoubted advance in the comforts and refinements of society is the facility with which men slip back into barbarism, if the artificial and external accidents of their lives are changed. [4]
- One of his suite beckoned to the soldiers carrying the standards to advance and surround the commander in chief with them. [2]
- The workings of such a measure are as impossible to predict in advance as the operation of the McKinley tariff. [4]
- There are dark stories of his getting advance payers on the summit and then leaving them there to rot. [5]
- Therefore, the constable, still holding Kit in the same manner, and pushing him on a little before him, so as to keep him at about three-quarters of an arm's length in advance (which is the professional mode), thrust him into the vehicle and followed himself. [12]
- Joan drove her spurs home and waved the advance with her sword. [5]
- Our war with Spain in 1898, however, was fought for an idea, and, despite the imperialistic impulse that followed it, marks a transition, an advance, in international ethics. [9]
- He followed the sorrel into the narrowing split between the walls, and presently had to desist because he could not see a foot in advance. [13]
- It is on something like this line that the greatest advance has been made in medical practice; I mean in the direction of prevention. [4]
- But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutuzov. [2]
- It marks a signal advance in democracy when liberal opinion in any nation turns for guidance and support to a statesman of another nation. [9]
- The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary. [2]
- David felt a shiver of anxiety and apprehension as he saw this sharp, sweeping advance. [11]
- In her studies she was so far in advance of her different classes that there was always a wide gap between her and the second scholar. [6]
- The date was set for it several weeks in advance, and from that time forward, the whole Mississippi Valley was in a state of consuming excitement. [5]
- We can then sell the rest of the stock on the prospect of the business of the road through an improved country, and also sell the lands at a big advance, on the strength of the road. [5]
- The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought. [2]
- For instance: My salary must be paid quarterly in advance. [5]
- We reached Tabor safely, and considerably in advance of that old iron-clad swindle of a guard. [5]
- As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. [7]
- He gets a royalty of ten per cent on it in England (issued in serial numbers) and the same royalty on it in book form afterwards, and is to receive an advance payment of five hundred pounds the day the first No. [5]
- A hotel would require pay in advance --I must walk the street all night, and perhaps be arrested as a suspicious character. [5]
- Meantime human nature remains the same, and the whole thing is a weary round that has no advance in it. [4]
- The only sufficient reason for the abandonment of the Washingtonian policy is the furtherance of the object for which it was inaugurated, the advance of democracy. [9]
- Not till they reached a quiet lane in Rhakotis, where they could advance without let or hindrance, did she open her eyes. [10]
- If it should reach the metropolis, what a relief it might bring to thousands who are, under a high sense of duty, struggling to advance the intellectual life. [4]
- She was followed, quite a distance in advance of the others, by Dr. Hiltner. [10]
- During the cannonade Prince Poniatowski is to advance through the wood on the village and turn the enemy's position. [2]
- In their great pride and self-will, they always sought to press in the advance and take the post of danger, trying to outvie our Spanish chivalry. [4]
- Why the incoming President's advance exhortation in favor of the decision? [7]
- I am not prepared to order, or even advise, an advance in this case, wherein I know so little of particulars, and wherein he, in the field, thinks the risk is so great and the promise of advantage so small. [7]
- No question of preliminaries to the meeting was then and there made or mentioned; no other person was present; no papers were exchanged or produced; and it was in advance agreed that the conversation was to be informal and verbal merely. [7]
- The whirlwind which preceded the bursting of the storm blew such clouds of dust and everything it contained into their faces that it was difficult to advance. [10]
- But Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at least part of the dowry in advance, he would have to break matters off. [2]
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