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Example sentences for "ages past"

  • Words lose their meaning in the course of time; nay, the very words of the Athanasian creed which we read to-day mean not in this age, the same thing which they meant in ages past.

  • Our Fathers, where are they, 1067 Our God, our help in ages past, Watts.

  • Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.

  • Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home!

  • I William Shakespeare Jog on, Jog on William Shakespeare The Downfall of Wolsey William Shakespeare The Noble Nature Ben Johnson Song on a May Morning John Milton O God, our Help in Ages Past.

  • O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.

  • Give me the mind that dares to step from the fallen stones, that leaps from rock to rock past the dark rift torn in the superstitions of ages past, and that, standing on the farthest crag, waits and watches for the breaking light!

  • As if a man should bind his thoughts and knowledge down to what was known, believed, or written in ages past!

  • There can be but slow progress while we are weighted down by the superstitions of ages past.

  • At midnight the buglers of the 14th Battalion sounded the Last Post, and at the close the band struck up the hymn "O God our help in ages past.

  • We sang that great hymn, "O God our help in ages past," which came into such prominence as an imperial anthem during the war.

  • We sang the hymn "O God our help in ages past," and at the time of communion about two hundred officers and men mounted the stage in turn and knelt in rows to receive the Bread of Life.

  • Wherein notwithstanding, beside that we find no concurrent determination of ages past, and a positive and undeniable refute of these present, the affirmative is mutable, and must not be received without all limitation.

  • O God, our help in ages past; Our hope for years to come; Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home!

  • Oft was seen, in ages past, All that we with wonder view; Often shall be to the last; Earth produces nothing new.

  • In ages past, old Proteus, with his droves Of sea-calves, sought the mountains and the groves.

  • The same who vanquish'd under Sion's towers At silent midnight all Assyria's powers, The same who overthrew in ages past Damascus' sons that laid Samaria waste!

  • Many would have thought it an Happiness to have had their Lot of Life in some notable Conjunctures of Ages past; but the Uncertainty of future Times hath tempted few to make a Part in Ages to come.

  • O God, our help in ages past; Our hope for years to come; Be Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home!

  • Inscriptions here of various names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdued; Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And poets once had promised they should last.

  • Many would have thought it an happiness to have had their lot of life in some notable conjunctures of ages past; but the uncertainty of future times have tempted few to make a part in ages to come.

  • It was, as I might have guessed, the tune to which "O God, our help in ages past" is sung in Ireland.

  • By way of passing the time they began to sing "O God, our help in ages past.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ages past; being agreeable; carbon bisulphide; cloth limp; conference committee; dead reckoning; fight against the children; fled from; holy place; just received; little inclination; much nearer; narrow ridge; nine weeks; observations were; put them; sleeping apartment; social activity; stone laid; thought the; whole life; you thought