advent

Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.

I would venture to say that Advent is something America needs right now, religious or not.

They told me that Advent was all about waiting and hoping – that they were indeed a community of waiting and hoping.

Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas.

The writer A. Lezhnev said, “I view the incident with Shostakovich as the advent of the same ‘order’ that burns books in Germany.”

But his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.

These gorgeous tea-cups were never used but on high-days and holidays, or on the advent of any particular visitors.

It was not indispensable to the human race during the thousands (I say millions) of years before its advent.

One would think, to read the Christian apologists, that before the advent of Christianity the world had neither virtue nor wisdom.

The social position of the Chinese permitted to remain in the Islands has changed since the American advent.