turn to advantage
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Is to warn you to close your proportionable or due distance, when you are to prepare for Battle or Skirmish; and to see every thing be in order that may turn to advantage.
From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert
Even this circumstance the Huguenots knew how to turn to advantage.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Fixed capital consists of buildings, machines, tools, &c.—Hold lands in capite, to hold them directly from the sovereign.—Make capital out of, to turn to advantage.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The practice of surrounding the owner's abode with shops, enabled them to turn to advantage the sides and corners of any piece of ground, however misshapen.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
He seemed to talk confidently, as if he reckoned that all this would turn to advantage.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
