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  • PAGE 1 Chapter 1 Early Years "Having no definite values, one is nothing, insubstantial and devoid of character.

  • Through my early years of life, my memories of Norm surrounded not so much the things we did together, but the way in which I saw his character.

  • You probably knew her personally, an honour of which I cannot boast; but I spent my early years in the neighbourhood, and among her servants and tenants.

  • Partly by direct statement, partly by implication, we may gather from it much information as to the state of England in Henry's early years, much as to the political philosophy of the finer minds of the day.

  • Sidenote: Thomas Cromwell] Concerning Cromwell's early years, much is reported and little is known.

  • Here was the scene of those balls that were the wonder of Paris during the Consulate and the early years of the Empire.

  • Absent from this quarter during the early years of the Second Empire, and absent from Paris during part of that time, it was in 1856 that Michelet settled in his last abode.

  • His premonition of early years, written to his confidant Dablin in 1830, was proven true: "I foresee the darkest of destinies for myself; that will be to die when all that I now wish for shall be about to come to me.

  • Oral speech is, therefore, the natural channel through which stories should come in early years.

  • The importance of story-telling and the initiation of children into the delightful fields of literature through the teacher rather than through the book are found to harmonize with a mode of treatment common to all the studies in early years.

  • There is no way by which this result can be accomplished in early years except by the oral presentation of stories.

  • And yet it is often in early years, while body and mind are in the period of development, that the most serious injury is done to the constitution and to the character by the indulgence of carnal pleasures.

  • True, the child will not realize the full import of such lessons; but he will understand it in due time; and already in early years he will be warned against indulging his nascent passions.

  • These were valuable items during the early years of the settlement, and much sought after by the Indians, so that a large number were used in trading with them.

  • Pine torches were often used out of doors, and rushlights and candlewood were undoubtedly used in the humbler dwellings during the very early years of the settlement.

  • Though in later days he will be remembered as a statesman rather than as a novelist, it is necessary to study those three books in order to understand what England and the English were in Victoria's early years.

  • At first I thought only to speak of plague, of death, and last, of desertion; but I lingered fondly on my early years, and recorded with sacred zeal the virtues of my companions.

  • Again I am a solitary man; and I will become again, as in my early years, a wanderer, a soldier of fortune.

  • I have already put off the carelessness of childhood, the unlined brow, and springy gait of early years, that they may adorn thee.

  • Her Majesty has supplied a brief record, in the "Early Years of the Prince Consort," of one such peaceful evening.

  • The Roman character, as moulded in the Republic's early years, was one of sternness and efficiency.

  • During my early years in this country the reserve of Americans in times of sorrow {73} and danger, as well as in times of joy, was to me not only amazing, but appalling.

  • It makes me long for my early years when I read in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis the story of Abraham's servant when he journeyed to Mesopotamia.

  • My ambition was flattered with the prospect; and during my early years, the dream of my future honours was always before me; but, as I grew up and learnt to dance upon the green with the girls of the village, my sentiments insensibly changed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    early career; early childhood; early crop; early dawn; early death; early maps; early nineteenth; early religion; early settler; early stage; early stages; early symptom; early writers; early years; given below; goes over; good for; having previously; him who; national history; natural size; said something; shall take the liberty; social revolution; thick bush; this movement