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Example sentences for "advent"

Lexicographically close words:
advantaged; advantageous; advantageously; advantages; advantagious; adventitious; adventitiously; adventu; adventure; adventured
  1. Vigil of St. Andrew, and Eve of Advent Sunday.

  2. It would be preceded at the close of each millennial series by the advent of a deliverer, wondrously born of Zarathustra's seed.

  3. Its promises of the Advent of the Son of Man in clouds of glory from the sky, who shall summon the nations to his great assize, are couched in the language of earlier Jewish books.

  4. The repeal of the Corn Laws had given the people cheap bread, and the advent of free trade gave abundant work and good wages.

  5. By the last stroke of twelve, midnight, we had the front veranda swept clean of straw, paper and excelsior, and all empty boxes cleared away; just in time to welcome the advent of my first Sabbath day in the Canadian West.

  6. It was a lovely day, and all nature seemed rejoicing at the advent of spring.

  7. So, while the Army of the Potomac regarded General Burnside with great respect, it gladly welcomed the advent of "Fighting Joe Hooker" to the command.

  8. The advent of the new comers was hailed with joy by the veterans, who had become sadly discouraged by their small and constantly decreasing numbers.

  9. The advent of the Sixth corps upon the field had decided the contest upon the right of the line, and after the first charge by the Third brigade the battle lulled.

  10. Wiley brought about peace between many of the tribes that before his advent were continually at war.

  11. He had been the means of bringing peace between several of the tribes that before his advent had been continually at war.

  12. The figure of Maximilian, weak though it may have been, was not without nobility; nor did his brief rule lack possibilities for the nation--one party of which had invited his advent and the other consummated his destruction.

  13. The Spanish advent wrought a marked change in the history of mining in the country.

  14. Nevertheless, it is stated that iron was mined and wrought into use at Tula, the Toltec centre, in the State of Jalisco, long before the advent of Cortes and the Spaniards.

  15. Almost every interruption of the laws of nature bespeaks the advent of the Redeemer, and does homage to Him as the Lord of earth and heaven.

  16. She wore a large blue pinafore apron, and she was so absorbed in her business that the advent of Mr. Prohack passed quite unnoticed by her.

  17. This suggestion followed the advent of Lady Massulam.

  18. The advent of the Woodland form of the Reindeer in Europe took place at a much later stage.

  19. With the advent of chivalry, she found herself at once in a more exalted position.

  20. At the advent of spring, he would issue forth, followed by a train of Jongleurs singing his songs, and proceed through field and wood to the nearest castle.

  21. With the advent of Bach, music was no longer the dry mathematical study that it had been during the later middle ages, for in his hands it became imbued with true feeling.

  22. All the living things become for a few brief hours happy and careless, drinking to the full the last drops of the mere joy of life before the advent of winter and rough weather.

  23. That by the world, which is denied in Christianity, is by no means to be understood a life of mere sensuality, but the real objective world, is to be inferred in a popular manner from the belief that at the advent of the Lord, i.

  24. The Incarnation was a tear of the divine compassion, and hence it was only the visible advent of a Being having human feelings, and therefore essentially human.

  25. The king, as it would appear, was himself quite taken aback by the advent of the army; as he fully showed by his proceedings next day.

  26. By the advent of Lord Grey to power in November 1830, Stanley obtained his first opportunity of showing his capacity for a responsible office.

  27. While Sweden, even after the advent of Gustavus Vasa, was still of but small account in Europe, Denmark easily held her own in Germany and elsewhere, even against Charles V.

  28. With the advent of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency a new era was expected, because a new era had been plainly prescribed by the entire course and spirit of the Presidential campaign.

  29. But it is conceivable in the odd freaks of things that we may yet see the advent of the Poet-Capitalist.

  30. For nobler outlets we must wait for the advent of the Poet-Capitalist.

  31. The erection of stately castles, of yet statelier abbeys, which followed the Conquest, the rebuilding of almost every cathedral or conventual church, marks the advent of the Jewish capitalist.

  32. Only with the advent of the Industrial Revolution were the embryonic precursors of intellectual property introduced but they were still limited to industrial designs and processes, mainly as embedded in machinery.

  33. But with the advent of new technologies all these problems should be solved.

  34. There are also passages in the fourth Eclogue of Virgil which prove that the expectation of a Saviour, and the belief that the time of his advent was approaching, existed even among the pagans.

  35. Different opinions have prevailed with regard to the prophecies of the sibyls, some of which, it is said, pointed clearly to the advent of a Redeemer, the time of his coming, and the submission of Rome to the new dispensation.

  36. The advent of Orleans to his councils would give the necessary stability to the government, and help to reconcile those factions at the French Court which so greatly aided the English cause.

  37. London after Agincourt; he welcomed the attempts at peace in 1443; Queen Margaret's advent and the truce she brought with her were celebrated in the same manner.

  38. Kemp was alienated from the Beaufort counsels by the advent of Suffolk, with whom he could not agree (see Ramsay, ii.

  39. Not many times need the advent of such an apparition coincide with the outbreak of a pestilence or the death of a Caesar to stamp the race of comets as an ominous clan in the minds of all superstitious generations.

  40. But with the advent of the new kind of electricity the age of practical application began.

  41. From the time of the advent of the Daniell cell experiments in electricity were rendered comparatively easy.

  42. Their departure left the house strangely empty and desolate, to the consciousness of mother and sisters especially, and Frank Osborne's advent seemed quite a boon.

  43. The clerks regarded the advent of the party with perfect indifference.

  44. Jacob led the way, and, ceremoniously throwing open the door of the apartment, announced the advent of his mistress.

  45. Quite naturally therefore and quite properly they commemorated the advent into the parent land according to the manner of the Anglo-Saxon when he strives to cover up, under a mien of boisterous enthusiasm, emotions of a purer sentiment.

  46. Prior to our advent into it the war had no great appeal upon the popular conscience of the United States.

  47. Simultaneously with our advent the foe's airmen showed up and the alerte was sounded for a gas attack.

  48. For centuries before the advent of the white man the buffalo herds roamed the plain.

  49. Naturally superstitious, he was prepared for the advent of some divine agency to help him in his distress.

  50. The British officials were well aware of the shortcomings of Brant's league, but they hailed its advent with delight.

  51. The advent had been staying in town for several weeks and I became fairly well acquainted with him and his estimable wife, and he asked me if they might have a few meetings at our home in the evenings, and I said certainly and he came.

  52. Sunday nature explode and told the cool, calm advent that teachings of his kind should be in hell.

  53. I think if an Advent says Saturday is the Lord's day and should be observed on the Sabbath, the Methodist says Sunday is the day, and some other denomination says Friday is the day, I'm willing to be convinced.

  54. The advent was the superior in scriptural knowledge and the way he got the other fellow in the meshes and so completely tangled him up is an event that can never be erased from my memory.

  55. The evening entertainment was progressing nicely and the advent man was in charge of the machinery, when suddenly the M.


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    Other words:
    access; accession; accomplishment; achievement; advance; advent; afflux; appearance; approach; approximation; arrival; attainment; coming; dawn; forthcoming; imminence; nearing; nearness; oncoming; return