"Advancing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the Dutch he turns his dreadful prow, More fierce the important quarrel to decide: Like swans, in long array his vessels show, Whose crests advancing do ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... BURGOYNE (advancing to the table, elaborately cool). What is this? What's happening? Mr. Anderson: I'm astonished ...
— The Devil's Disciple • George Bernard Shaw
... far too many kopjes (which required picketing). The next day we were off again through the bush. Apropos of the bush, it appears to me that every tree and shrub in this land of promise produces thorns. On Friday, the 20th, we came in touch with the enemy. We were advancing in extended order towards an innocent-looking kopje, had got close up to it, and had just dismounted, when—rap! went a Mauser. Then another, and rap, rap, rap, rap, rap, rap, and the whole show started. As there was absolutely no cover to hand, we got the order to ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross
... said Thorn with a mixture of expressions in his face,—"if I believed you, which I don't,—it don't signify a hair what you do, when once this matter is known. I should never think of advancing my pretensions into a ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... 28.—Calmer days: the sky rosier: the light visibly advancing. We have never suffered from low spirits, so that the presence of day raises us above a normal cheerfulness to the realm of ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
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