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Example sentences for "earlier years"

  • In earlier years Punch would have given chapter and verse for such charges; the later method, though it makes easier reading, carries less weight.

  • Her hair was false, her teeth were false, her complexion was shrivelled, her form had lost the round symmetry of earlier years, and was angular and stiff; yet how cheerful and lively she was!

  • The legislative history of the Tariff Act of 1897--more commonly known as the Dingley act--was in several respects much like that of similar measures of earlier years.

  • The migration from the eastern states toward the West continued as in earlier years.

  • What visions of revolt had thrilled it in earlier years!

  • I thought," said one of his associates in earlier years, "that the noble costume of the Albanian would have well become him.

  • His thoughts were not so much colored by memories of earlier years as by anticipation, even dreams of what the future might hold.

  • In earlier years he had made quite a study of natural history, so that he knew enough about the habits of the animals who figured in his verses to make humorous portraits of them.

  • All this manifested itself with especial force beginning with the reign of Charles III, but precedents were not lacking in earlier years.

  • Laws were now passed removing the prohibitions of earlier years.

  • Under Philip IV a degree of toleration which would not have been dreamed of in earlier years began to be allowed.

  • They resumed their former affectionate correspondence on religious matters, and Miss Nightingale was again the "loving Flo" of earlier years.

  • At other times, pride and pleasure in her famous daughter were mixed in the mother's mind with the regrets of earlier years.

  • The reference here is to the Aunt who, in earlier years, had been in close companionship with her.

  • Her sources of information and industrious study: her opportunities of effective action less than in earlier years.

  • On all these subjects he had a good deal to say, and he said it with very much the same mixture of intolerance and common sense, of rationalism and reverence which marked his utterances in earlier years.

  • But at any rate they are an improvement on Punch's references to the "viperine expectorations" of the editor of the Tablet in earlier years.

  • It remains to be added that the grievances of tenants and farm labourers, though far less frequently mentioned than in earlier years, did not altogether escape the vigilance of Punch.

  • In earlier years, he was clerk in the large mercantile house of Rensselaer, Wykoff & Co.

  • She even passed by the same house, and heard the light laughter of thoughtless voices, from the same window from which she had once looked forth in earlier years, a joyful and light-hearted creature.

  • In earlier years, I have learned, that they were much attached to each other.

  • The son and brother, for whom now rushed back upon their hearts the tender and confiding affection of earlier years, was lingering upon life's extremest verge.

  • Cardiac neuroses are seen particularly in those who having had considerable exercise in earlier years, have settled down to a sedentary life in which there are few calls made upon their muscular system.

  • But where are the apples of earlier years?

  • I've spent my "tip" in-- But where are the apples of earlier years?

  • Except with this for, an overword-- But where are the apples of earlier years?

  • Sometimes in our mouths, if they were not seen)-- But where are the apples of earlier years?

  • When I print these sonnets, I shall probably affix a note saying, that though many of them are of recent production, not a few are obviously the work of earlier years.

  • Being much more than ordinarily cheerful during the first evenings of our stay in the North, he talked sometimes of his past life and of the men and women he had known in earlier years.

  • In after life when his habit of late rising had become a stock subject of banter among his intimate friends, he would tell with unwonted pride how in earlier years he used to rise at six A.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bleaching powder; both clauses; but before; declares that; direct quotation; each species; earlier agreement; earlier date; earlier days; earlier life; earlier period; earlier stage; earlier time; earlier times; earlier years; est pour; for any; goes through the town; great military; hath lost; mile farther; much lesse; our times; rebel officer; seen only; taken prisoner