| 1. | and terminates about , with the advent of M. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Then, "Who shall have it" "He who will come." That was Charles the Second, whose advent was already foreseen. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Eos, the Dawn, like her brother Helios, whose advent she always announced, was also deified by the early Greeks. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 4. | Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to the woods, proclaiming as they fled the advent of the Evil Spirit. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 5. | The entrance of that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Just thirty days after my advent upon Barsoom we entered the ancient city of Thark, from whose long-forgotten people this horde of green men have stolen even their name. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 8. | Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |