They say the city childages fast; but do they ever think of the wearing sameness and starving of heart that puts years on the country child?
The same agesare given in the First Book of Discipline.
It is commonly stated that in the middle ages it was the practice for our ancestors to throw in their silver tankards and spoons when the parish church bells were cast.
It was subscribed to by a large number of the nobility, gentry and others of all ranks and conditions, ages and sexes.
Gifts of bells to churches, particularly in the earlier ages, were always deemed the most acceptable of gifts, and during the middle ages these bells were not uncommonly given as a memorial of some deceased friend or relation.
There was formerly a holy well beside the lonely cross-road from Abbeyhill to Restalrig, near Edinburgh, and in the middle ages it attracted a great number of pilgrims.
In all Christian countries from the earliest ages the use of bells is practically as old as Christianity itself.
Water for the font was often taken from holy wells, and it was believed in the middle ages that persons baptised with water from Trinity Well, at Gask, in Perthshire, would never be attacked by the plague.
Some strange customs, the origin of which does not appear to have been traced, but which probably came down from the dark ages of Celtic paganism, were performed in bygone times on the birth of a child.
And this account of his is the truth; for feeding of sheep was the employment of our forefathers in the most ancient ages [10] and as they led such a wandering life in feeding sheep, they were called Shepherds.
I have traveled horseback over the great arid plains of the West, and have read the story of the ages gone before.
Yet in the broad measure of ages they are mere ripples on the sea of time, faint bubbles on the eternal deep, and grains of sand at the mountain foot.
The comparative resistance of the American species to the phylloxera, the mildews, and black-rot has been due to natural selection in the contest that has been waged for untold ages between host and parasite.
With all his heart he hoped the day would come when he would be able to say to Varick: "Ages before you thought of her, old chap, I selected Miss Brabazon as your future bride!
I have this satisfaction, that I shall acquire the greater fame if I succeed, inasmuch as the perils by which I am beset are greater than those to which the knights-errant of past ages were exposed.
Happy thoseages which knew not the dreadful fury of artillery!
Ninety-two persons of various ages have been formally received into the Church; eight couples married; one person admitted to the Lord's Supper; nearly one hundred and eighty of all ages have been present at the services.
V Ages and creeds that drift Through change and cloud uplift The soul that soars and seeks her sovereign shrine, Her faith's veiled altar, there To find, when praise and prayer Fall baffled, if the darkness be divine.
All secrets once through darkling ages kept Shone, sang, and smiled to think how long they slept.
The wages of ages Wherein men smiled and slept, Fame fails them, shame veils them, Their record is not kept.
As the winds of the wild blind ages alternate in passion of light and of cloud, So changes the shape of the veil that enshrouds it with darkness and light for a shroud.
Still for her, though years and agesbe blinded and bedinned, Mazed with lightnings, crazed with thunders, life rides and guides the wind.
Three men followed him and numerous dogs of several colors, sizes, and ages roamed at will, in a listless, bored way, between the horse and the men.
Ages seemed to pass before he flung his numb arm over it and floated with it.
The past is to them a nullity, and they would fain have us believe that the present debased externals of religion are to be equally received and propagated as those which were generated during the finest ages of Christian art.
It probably had its origin in the remote ages of antiquity, before the Mahomedans explored a path across the Desert.
Those valuable commodities, gold and ivory, (the next objects of our inquiry,) have probably been found in Africa from the first ages of the world.
Here from the pure æther of his spiritual essence, flows down the Fountain of Beauty, uncontaminated by the pollutions of ages and generations, which roll to and fro in their turbid vortex far beneath it.
And when, think you, would those blessedages Have come round, had I recoil'd before The curse of this?
The spirit of the romantic ages is here imaged forth; but the whole is exalted, embellished, ennobled.
Cambridge has never produced four such men of action in successive ages as Wolsey, Laud, Wesley, and Newman.
Week after week the ugly tale went on--a squalid ogre let loose among a population demoralised by ages of wicked neglect, misery, and oppression.
Joseph de Maistre says that in the innocent primitive ages men died of diseases without names.
The children are taken in from the age of two years, but they generally enter at the ages of four, five, or six.
The ages had to be affixed to the names; and as the captain could not ask the ladies for their ages, he committed it to the gentlemen to decide upon each.
But as far as my experience goes, it has always happened, somewhere between the ages of eight and ten, if not before.
It was the college question that eventually brought these boys to preparatory schools, at the ages of thirteen, or fourteen.
All sorts of theories have been advanced, in the search for a plausible explanation, but again, in all the ages of civilization, no conclusive proof has been found that any one of them is the right one.
The finest types of men, the leading spirits of humanity, in all ages and climes, from the earliest savages to the most advanced civilization, have always had that kind of feeling and responded to it.
And ages ago, it is said by the natives, the moles in Australia got tired of living in the dark, and held a meeting above-ground, and determined to live a different mode of life.
For ages they had marched back and forth, but from this march there was never to be a return.
For untold ages this river had been flowing through the lonely continent, not very greatly changed since the close of the Pleistocene.
The climate of the West Indies ages a European, so they say; especially a European who works hard.
In this hilly street the ground-floors of the merchants are neither shops nor warehouses; lovers of the Middle Ageswill here find the ouvrouere of our forefathers in all its naive simplicity.
And use of wine accordeth to all men's agesand times and countries, if it be taken in due manner, and as his disposition asketh that drinketh it.
The habit of extending analogies beyond their legitimate application was a source of confusion in the early ages of science.
As the ages roll by, other Buddhas will descend for the regeneration of the world.
It was, no doubt, the work of his Ministers, chiefly of the blood-stained Taingda Mingyi, a name to all succeeding ages cursed.
The many stages in the evolution of the various devices, as well as the stages of their abandonment, that followed one another in the course of the ages recorded the results of a multitude of efforts at sociological adjustment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeon; age; century; eternity; long
