ADVANCE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - advance in Treasure Island
1  But there we were, without a mate; and it was necessary, of course, to advance one of the men.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: 10
2  Then my mother got a candle in the bar, and holding each other's hands, we advanced into the parlour.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: 4
3  In any other circumstances it would have been comical to see his slow advance, hesitating as he set down each foot, but holding his closed right hand in front of him.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: 29
4  Then he advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got a leg up, and with great vigour and skill succeeded in surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other side.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: 20
5  Very deliberately, then, did we advance across the sand to where the doctor awaited us on the other side of the stockade, and as soon as we were within easy speaking distance Silver stopped.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: 30
6  Nor was this all, for the sound of several footsteps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direction, a light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: 4