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Two lines of trenches were taken; the line was advanced -- advanced, it is true, a bare one or two hundred yards, but with lives poured out like water over each foot of the advance, with every inch of the ground gained marking a well-spring and fountain-head of a river of pain, of a suffering beyond all words, of a glory above and beyond all suffering.

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  1. adjective Highly developed or complex.
  2. adjective Being at a higher level than others: an advanced text in physics.
  3. adjective Ahead of the times; progressive: advanced teaching methods.
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  • Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • During his temporary absence on this pressing emergency, Captain Antonio Barba, and two other Captains with one hundred grenadiers, and two hundred foot, besides Indians and negroes, advanced from the Spanish camp into the savannah with drums and huzzas, and halted within an hundred paces of the position where the troops left by Oglethorpe lay in ambuscade. —  Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
  • Your being already three hundred miles advanced, which is nearly half way, is the reason that operates against any which can be offered in favour of marching that detachment back. —  Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
  • As the season advanced, the weather became so tempestuous that the squadron was often driven off the land for many days together, and only occasionally fetched near Ferrol. —  The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
  • As the autumn advanced, the pilots gave up the charge of the fleet; but Sir Edward kept his station, until the increasing severity of the gales compelled him to take shelter in the Downs. —  The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
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