What is "advantages"

Usage examples of "advantages".

I was determined not to play any longer as a dupe, but to secure in gambling all the advantages which a prudent young man could obtain without sullying his honour.

Our love might have been lessened, she would have enjoyed too great advantages over me, and my self-dignity would have too deeply suffered if I had allowed myself to be supported by her earnings only.

He felt convinced, as I was, that De la Haye had been useful to him only through weak or selfish reasons, that is, that he would have cared little for his soul if his face had not been handsome, and if he had not known that he would derive important advantages from having caused his so-called conversion.

Besides all these advantages, she had a comfortable apartment on the first floor of one of the largest cafes in Florence.

I see he loves you and you like him, and as I love you and wish to see you sheltered from the storms of fortune, and as I think this pleasant young Frenchman would make you happy, I have pointed out to you these advantages, but instead of being grateful you scold me.

One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.

I could not make up my mind to renounce the advantages, the hopes which I thought were attached to my happy independence.

Even if we did anyway, and even if it succeeded, it would be unlikely to achieve the advantages that its American advocates have held out for it.

Superior tactics, training, firepower, and leadership still create important advantages even in city fighting.

Iraq would have advantages that have not been present in most other situations.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.

You possess a real treasure, and you may derive great advantages from it.

I felt certain that you would at once see the advantages of my offer, and that you would not raise any objection.

I complimented him upon his situation, calling him a fortunate fellow, and applying the same epithet to myself for having gained him all the advantages he enjoyed, and the hope of one day becoming a secular priest.

After this sharp dialogue I left him, and travelling post I set out, displeased with myself for having given such advantages to a man wholly unworthy of them.