But they had been swept back by the inexorable advance of the silent enemy.
The Caxtonian knocked a chair out of the way and continued its inexorable advance.
Then the fire of his line tore the defenders apart, and the inexorable advance swept over them.
He did not think it prudent to respond in kind; rather, he continued his inexorable but unhurried advance.
What the two prints and many others here have in common is an undertow of melancholy, an almost palpable sense of time's inexorable advance.
He proved signally unable to stanch Parma's inexorable advance, however.
It offers an impressive spectacle for the visitor who will note the inexorable advances of the desert.
Teddy led them on, The stream continued its inexorable advance up Eleanor's legs.
Meanwhile the inexorable advance of the beast nudged the waiting women out of its path.
His straining feet tore at the sod as he struggled against the inexorable advance of his captor.