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Example sentences for "generation after"

  • His words open out, generation after generation, into undreamed-of wisdom, and there are found to be hived in them stores of sweetness that were never suspected until the occasion came that drew them forth.

  • It is not until a generation after that we hear of the English as slave-owners.

  • Taylor, who contributed the article on Negro Congressmen a Generation After in the April number, recently received from Mr. Henry A.

  • I am writing this to let you know how much I enjoyed reading your very interesting article "Negro Congressmen a Generation After," in the April number of The Journal of Negro History.

  • Before the smallpox epidemic had subsided scarlet fever became unusually mortal, especially in 1840, and kept its higher level of deaths for a generation after.

  • About a generation after we come to the earliest medical account of the sicknesses of Ireland, by Gerard Boate, compiled during the Cromwellian occupation[416].

  • The state of the prisons in the first half of the 18th century was certainly not better than Howard found it to be a generation after; it was probably worse, for the administration of justice was more savage.

  • Generation after generation is content with the same simple life.

  • It had held the clothes and the books and the papers of generation after generation.

  • It had won back its home, but in the old homestead it had grown poorer and feebler, generation after generation.

  • Generation after generation of these plants died, and their remains, submerged by the water, were converted into peat.

  • Generation after generation of forests lived and died in the vast spreading swamps of this era.

  • May they fear Thee as long as the sun shines, And as long as the moon shows her face, generation after generation!

  • But Thou, Jehovah, sittest enthroned for ever, And Thy memorial is to generation after generation.

  • Lord, a dwelling-place hast Thou been for us In generation after generation.

  • Generation after generation, they are being made perfect by sufferings, as their Saviour was before them; and then, woe to thee!

  • Bears and wolves and a host of smaller animals were to be found, and along the shores were runways that had been worn deep in the soil by the tread of generation after generation of dainty little cloven hoofs.

  • Generation after generation of beavers had worked on that dam, building it a little higher and a little higher, a little longer and a little longer, year after year; and raising their lodges as the pond rose around them.

  • The gradual increase, generation after generation, in the size of a useful limb or the perfection of a valuable organ of sense may readily be explained by selection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carried down; corresponding degree; faithful friend; generation after; holy baptism; hundred horse; large clusters; literary language; little importance; long ranges; play upon; pointed wings; quite gone; religious ideas; remain here; safety first; shall refuse; shew them; sweet friend; thousand guineas; whole numbers; whose power