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The bunch of animated foliage carelessly advancing, the spider's leap from its bubble, the glint of its shears as they met in the wretched creature's neck, the ghastly quivering tremor of the case.— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
Owing to the uneven country over which they were advancing, their march was slow; for they might fall upon a Union line of battle behind any rounding swell of land It was afternoon before the rebel army had fully formed its line on Gaines' Farm.— Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
We wandered about perseveringly, nevertheless, and were rewarded by again discovering them about quarter of a mile farther on, leading down to the banks of the river on another part of which I had had such a narrow escape While we were advancing--I in front--I felt the ground beneath me suddenly begin to give way with a crackling sound.— The Gorilla Hunters

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