She had been in the service of the Chanteaus for twenty years, and having become necessary to them, took advantage of her position.
Like so many other officers he proved himself incompetent, and after the capitulation he, alone among the generals, took advantage of the pretext of illness to sign an undertaking to the Germans not to take any further part in the war.
I took advantageof this to pocket some lumps of fat, intending to make a candle with it and a wick composed of some twisted threads from my shirt.
We waited patiently, and I took advantage of the interval to repeat the instructions I had previously given to the negroes.
Tyrconnell, labouring with the illness of which he soon after died, took advantage of the honourable pause thus obtained, to proceed on his interrupted voyage to Prance, accompanied by the ambassador.
I took advantage of this amphibious nature, to station a light canoe immediately on the edge of the breakers, and to order the daring swimmers it contained to grasp the girl the moment her canoe was purposely upset!
At last, however, it became necessary that I should visit a neighboring colony for supplies, and I took advantage of a Russian trader along the coast to effect my purpose.
I took advantage of the opportunity to say a word here and a word there, to pass continually near those who were suspected, to skim and interrupt all conversations.
I took advantage of the effect my discourse had had upon him to show how necessary it was he should make a great effort in order to win back the favour of the King and of the public.
I took advantage of the pause to draw in a long breath, for I, too, felt as if I had a weight on my chest.
I took advantage of a moment when she was smiling across at Marguerite to ask her, "Whom are you looking at?
We were now within 11 days of Fort Smith, so I took advantage of the opportunity to send Sanderson back.
One day after the fly season was over I took advantage of the lovely weather and water to strip off and jump into a lake by our camp; my Indians modestly turned their backs until I had finished.
As this was an opportunity for us to do business again, we took advantage of it.
As he was about out of ammunition at the time of their departure, he took advantage of their retreat to make his way to Fort Dodge for relief and succor.
An official by name Pitracha, took advantage of the popular discontent as a basis on which to rear the fabric of his fortune.
A Peguan commander who had retreated with his army into a forest, on learning that the Burmese army had returned to Ava, took advantage of their absence to recapture Siriam, a seaport town of Pegu.
And Reresby, with a keen eye for his own advancement, took advantage of this to secure the patronage of the Duke.
Yesterday I took advantage of the kindness of the Comte de Rambuteau, who offered me his box for the last performance of Mlle.
Yesterday the weather was very fine and I took advantage of it to ascend with my son-in-law, on foot, an imposing mountain which separates old from new Nice; a winding path has been made by which the ascent is comparatively easy.
The weather yesterday was incomparable and the month of May is not more beautiful at Paris, so after hearing the office of the Ashes and lunching, we took advantage of the weather.
Yesterday I took advantage of several intermissions in the bad weather to visit the park, the kitchen garden and the surroundings.
After falling back behind the Lukolmlia, and keeping on the defensive the whole of the day, he took advantage of the night to gain Sienno.
At the same time that he again turned soldier, he ceased not to be a general; he took advantage of the ground, supported himself against a height, and covered himself with a palisaded house.
I took advantage of the moment when he stopped reading to address a word or two to him.
During the night someone set light to some native huts in the banana-plantation below our hill, so I took advantage of the blaze and went down there, and stripping stark naked dried all my things before going up the hill again.
They never did what they ought to have done, and we took advantage of their opportunities.
It must not be thought that knowingly and wilfully I took advantage of these opportunities to steal the heart of the young heiress of such broad lands and splendid possessions.
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