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Example sentences for "comparatively late"

  • They much resemble some of those from Greenland, and are probably of comparatively late date.

  • The same form of mill is found also in Ireland,[986] and not improbably remained in occasional use until a comparatively late period.

  • Some querns and an iron knife appear to have accompanied the interment, so that it may belong to a comparatively late period.

  • Numerous bronze weapons, implements, and personal ornaments found in the catacombs, attest the use of this metal by the Egyptians at a comparatively late period.

  • The testimony of Pliny, on the contrary, is most distinct as to the introduction of a similar practice among the Romans at a comparatively late period.

  • The evidence of their contents indicates that they belong to a comparatively late era, and their correspondence to some of the most common sepulchral memorials of Norway and Sweden suggests the probability of a Scandinavian origin.

  • The brain also did not come, until a comparatively late period, to be regarded as the seat of the intellect.

  • Certain Egyptian documents speak of mundane occupations for the dead, but these documents belong to a comparatively late stage of culture, and what the earlier view was we do not know.

  • In Rome the custom arose at a comparatively late period, and it was the work not of spontaneous Roman thought but of political philosophy.

  • The philological analysis of the idioms of these stocks has shown that they together constitute a link in the Indo-Germanic chain of languages, and that the epoch in which they still formed an unity is a comparatively late one.

  • This affords a fresh confirmation of the fact that the manufacture of iron was of comparatively late introduction in Latium; and on this account in matters of ritual down to the latest times copper alone might be used, e.

  • The Hebrews came upon the historical field at a comparatively late day.

  • There is no record of an Ionic conquest of the island, as in the case of Smyrna, but we know that it did not enter the Ionic confederation until a comparatively late period, probably the seventh century[336].

  • The Ionic states of Clazomenai and Phocaia, to the west and north-west of Smyrna, seem to have been founded at a comparatively late period, though probably in the eighth century.

  • According to the form in which this theory has become most widely known they were translated into Ionic at a comparatively late date--towards the close of the sixth century[340].

  • The cult of Hector at Thebes likewise seems to have been derived from the same quarter, perhaps in comparatively late times[416].

  • Doubtless many examples of Sassanian glass have been turned up during the gigantic explorations around Nineveh, Babylon, and Susa, but till quite lately little attention has been paid to objects of so comparatively late a date.

  • Joseph Hudson officiated now and then, a military chaplain, appointed at a comparatively late period to this post; a clergyman greatly beloved by the people of the town generally, both as a preacher and as a man.

  • The memorable fancy-ball given here at a comparatively late period, but during the Sheriff's lifetime, recurs as we go by.

  • The staking out of streets here was a comparatively late event.

  • Of these the Mahommedan, though of comparatively late date, are distinguished by the excellent manner in which they have been transmitted to us, as well as by their impartiality.

  • In Siberia and northern Europe species of an African type survived till a comparatively late epoch, so that the present relegation of the group to tropical Asia and Africa may be regarded as a modern feature in distribution.

  • As I cannot accept the view that the earliest Roman idea of the supernatural is to be found in comprecationes of a comparatively late period, i.

  • This is of comparatively late origin, as it is addressed to Dis pater, who only became a Roman deity in 249 B.

  • There the material is extraordinarily abundant, but it is, of course, almost entirely of comparatively late date, and the great majority of votive inscriptions belong to the period of the Empire.

  • Almost the only one among them of which we have other traces is the taboo on iron, which must have been of comparatively late date, as the use of iron in Italy seems only to have begun about the eighth century B.

  • This, of course, implies that it was composed at a comparatively late date, when the god Merodach had become fully recognized as the chief divinity, and the fact that Aa was his father had been lost sight of, and practically forgotten.

  • So renowned was the place as a centre of heathen worship, that at a comparatively late date--running far into the Christian era, namely, the fifth century A.

  • Absolute uniformity probably did not prevail throughout Babylonia until a comparatively late period.

  • Instead of standing at the source of Arthurian romantic tradition, he was swept into the current at a comparatively late period of its evolution.


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