Example Sentences

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As Ishmael came their way a south breeze blew and caused the mooring lines of boats to creak—the Advancer, the Providence, the Ocean Mist, the Torvanger—all standard San Piedro gill- netters.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Disdaining for it the poor name of cheap diffuser of news, I claim for it the independent apostleship of Advancer of Knowledge:—the iron Paul!

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

But this is the style, in which the one before referred to, falls in with the humour of this Advancer of Learning.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia