And al this made avant of Pride: Good is therfore a man to hide His oghne pris, for if he speke, He mai lihtliche his thonk tobreke.
This Bonefas, which can noght hyde 2950 The tricherie of his Supplant, Hath openly mad his avant How he the Papacie hath wonne.
His 'avant toute chose' whirling dizzily in a spiritual vacuum, met with no salutary resistance to modify, inform, and strengthen it.
When Verlaine declares 'de la musique avant toute chose,' we know where we are.
It is the 'avant toute chose' that leads us to respect both Mr Hardy and Mr Bridges, though we give all our affection to one of them.
The tyranny of the 'avant toute chose' upon a mind in which the other things were not stubborn and self-assertive is apparent.
It is the 'avant toute chose' that we chiefly miss in modern poetry and modern society and in their quaint concatenations.
And we know this not in the obvious sense of expecting his verse to be predominantly musical; but in the more important sense of desiring to take a man seriously who declares for anything 'avant toute chose.
By his contemporary Meissonier there are several paintings at Chantilly; the most important being Les Cuirassiers de 1805 avant le Combat.
Make way for the Honorable Archer Converse," shrieked their avant courier, excitedly.
Normans answering them with loud cries of "En avant De Bracy!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.