turn to advantage
Example Sentences
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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
If she did so, she could not always be on her guard, and something, I thought, might drop from her which I could turn to advantage.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
Might he not yet turn to advantage this hesitancy of Crispin's to strike the final blow?
From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael
Nor could they turn to advantage their vast resources, and the natural wealth of the estate only served to attract outside marauders.
From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles
