1 Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 2 No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous.
3 Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son.
4 Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow.
5 But the question whether the camp was advantageous or disadvantageous remained for him undecided.
6 One of the most obvious and advantageous departures from the so-called laws of war is the action of scattered groups against men pressed together in a mass.
7 Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting.
8 "Speak, monsieur, speak," said d'Artagnan, who instinctively scented something advantageous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 9 I know you to be a man of resolution; and your services, well directed, instead of leading you to ill, might be very advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION 10 You have told me the truth, my gentlemen," said he, addressing the Musketeers, "and it will not be my fault if our encounter this evening be not advantageous to you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 11 It is true that the habit of a novice, which the young woman wore, was not very advantageous in a contest of this kind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE 12 Such a choice were certainly the wisest and the most advantageous, could men be content to enjoy what is their own without seeking to lord it over others.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. 13 Aristides reporting to the Athenians that the course proposed by Themistocles was extremely advantageous but extremely dishonourable, the people utterly refused to entertain it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIX. 14 Moreover it was costly for the king to build, and shameful for him to lose this fortress; while for Ottaviano it was glorious to take, and advantageous to destroy it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. 15 Turning their thoughts wholly to arms, the Romans always conducted their military enterprises in the most advantageous way, both as to cost and every other circumstance of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.