Such an epochal first moment came to William Lloyd Garrison in the streets of Boston.
These selfish forces may at epochal moments align themselves with justice and liberty, and they not infrequently do, otherwise human progress must be at an end.
Even after he had become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and throughout his long and epochal occupancy of that high place, Marshall showed this same peculiarity which was so prominent in his practice at the bar.
Du Chaillu's epochal paper in the Free Library of Newcastle, there appeared in a great newspaper a contemporary estimate of his views, which was received by its multitudinous constituency with profound interest and respect.
Not from newspapers, then, nor from second-hand rumor did John Marshall, now nineteen years old, learn of the epochal acts of that convention.
This was the same Pendleton who had fought Henry in his immortal resolution on the Stamp Act in 1765 and in every other of those epochal battles for liberty and human rights which Henry had led and won.
Noble as was the epochal debate in Virginia's Constitutional Convention, it was not so influential on votes of the members as were other methods[1111] employed by both sides.
The present volumes narrate the life of John Marshall before his epochal labors as Chief Justice began.
The love of woman, the life of minne, during that epochal era shines most brightly, though idealized, in the greatest lyric and epic poets Germany ever produced.
We are, however, able fairly to reconstruct the record by the aid of the rich treasures transmitted to us from a period five or six centuries later, a time epochal in the stormy youth of the German peoples.
Carson felt inside his shirt and pulled out a meager and ill-printed sheet which told the most epochal news that this or any country has known--the midwinter discovery of gold at Sutter's Mills.
The teams did not hasten, did not abate their speed, but moved in an unagitated advance that gave the massed column something irresistibly epochal in look.
Observe, then, that Davy made his epochal experiment of melting ice by friction when he was a youth of twenty.
The wheels have written epochal record on the surface of the land.
This trip into the North wrought epochal change for our bear hunter.
Pierre Curie himself declared that more than half of the epochal discovery belonged to his wife.
The scene of this epochalenterprise was the region around Havana, particularly between Havana and Matanzas.
In the interests of his church and the progress of his truth God has shown in advance in prophetic vision the periods and epochal events covering not only the Christian dispensation, but also a considerable time previous to it.
Experiments were conducted which bordered closely upon the next epochalevent in light-production--the appearance of the gas mantle.
Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century the civilized world had only a faint glimpse of the illuminating property of gas, but practicable gas-lighting was destined soon to be an epochal event in the progress of lighting.
The epochalfeature of the development of gas-lighting is that here was a possibility for the first time of providing lighting as a public utility.
If Fanny Brandeis' sense of proportion had not been out of plumb she might have realized that, to Winnebago, the new First National Bank building was as significant and epochal as had been the Woolworth Building to New York.
Perhaps you have quite forgotten that here were to be retailed two epochal events in Fanny Brandeis's life.
The huge mechanism was very cumbersome in operation, and photography was not available in those days; nevertheless Lord Rosse's telescope made the epochal discovery of the spiral nebulae, which no other telescope of that day could have done.
Therefore his work is one of the few epochal publications of our time.
Imitators of his manner there will be often and many, but he will ever remain one of the few whom the world acknowledges are alike supreme, and yet unlike each other--epochal characters, who mark extraordinary periods in history.
The momentous influence of the Watauga settlers, inadequately reckoned hitherto by historians, was soon to make itself powerfully felt in the first epochal movement of westward expansion.
In this slight incident we may discern the initial inspiration for the epochal movement of westward expansion.
Previous to that epochal event, Germany had relied on her army to protect her interests and enforce her rights, being led thereto by the facts of her history and the shortness of her coast-line.
These four epochal events in our Civil War demonstrated the possibilities of mechanism in naval warfare, and led the way to the use of the highly specialized and scientific instruments that have played so important a part in the present war.
That was the second blessing, anepochal experience, unlike anything which preceded, or anything to follow.
This class of men had become fully formed by the end of the twelfth century, and then began the new feudal system, which lasted until the epochalyear 1868 A.
The sharp dividing line between prehistoric times and historic times, seems to be that made by the art of writing; for this epochal invention rendered possible the recording of events, and the consequent beginning of history.
In the same epochal year that ushered in the Franco-Prussian War and the Gramme machine, the Hyatts invented celluloid.
In the same year, Roentgen made the epochal discovery of what he called by the significant name "X-rays," a name that still clings to them.
In the following year of 1871, Goodyear invented his welt shoe-sewing machine and Maddox made his epochal discovery.
Naturally, Franklin's epochal discoveries stirred the scientific world in Europe, and gave a great impetus to the study of electricity and the other physical sciences.
In 1911 Glenn Curtiss produced his epochal flying-boat, Just and Hanaman invented the tungsten electric light, and Drager his pulmotor, for reviving persons who have been asphyxiated or partially drowned, by forcing oxygen into their lungs.
In 1879, Appleby invented the automatic grain-binder, and Sir William Crookes made his epochal discovery of cathode rays.
These three epochal occurrences started the new civilization with a tremendous impetus.
An epochal discovery was made by Mr. Cavendish about 1787, when he exploded a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and obtained nitric acid.
This was anepochal adventure; it inaugurated an age which is already called the Aerial Age, and which will bring about changes so vast that our imagination cannot picture them.
This was an epochal invention, inaugurating as it did an entirely new art, and contributing enormously not only to the quickness of welding, but to its accuracy and strength.
In the same year, Fox Talbot made another of his epochal contributions to photography, by inventing a process by which photographic half-tones could be produced.
In 1868, Westinghouse made his epochal invention, the railway air-brake.
In Africa the epochal conflict between Boer and Briton was developing inexorably, and France was about to achieve the conquest of Madagascar.
In view of those facts, that utterance in his message was of epochal import.
The riot of joy continued unabated until just before noon, when it slackened for a time, only as a mark of respect for the epochalceremony which was being performed in the great State Hall of the Palace.
But nearly six months before that epochal date actual occupation and administration was begun on an extensive scale and in a most auspicious manner.
He outlined his views in an epochal paper published in Muller's Archives in 1838, under title of "Beitrage zur Phytogenesis.
The simple experiments thus inaugurated led to no fewer than two hundred thousand recorded observations regarding the weather, which formed the basis for some of the most epochal discoveries in meteorology, as we have seen.
Desmoulins made at least one discovery of epochal importance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epochal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
