The ceremony was over, and the torches alone lighted up the plateau, which a few instants before had been so brilliantly illuminated.
She pointed to a seat and I sat down upon it, my eyes during several instants fixed upon the floor.
For a few instants she listened, not moving her wide open eyes from the spot whence the faint sound had come; she sighed, turned her head slowly, bent still lower, and began sorting her flowers.
He remained some instants looking at Martita, while he slowly collected his ideas.
The brigadier himself, in spite of his choleric temper, remained for some instants dumb before the girl's audacity.
The series of instants from any earlier one to any later one (both included) is infinite, but has two ends; the series of instants from the beginning of time to the present moment has one end, but is infinite.
Thus, although we shall derive points and instants from things, we shall leave the bare possibility open that they may also have an independent existence as simple entities.
Finally, the series of instants will be compact if, given any two events of which one wholly precedes the other, there are events wholly after the one and simultaneous with something wholly before the other.
Hence the number of instants since the motion began is twice the number of A's passed, though we previously found it was equal to this number.
This means, so far as practical working out is concerned, that we adopt the relational theory; for in practice the refusal to assume points and instants has the same effect as the denial of them.
Thus our definition affords an analysis of the continuity of motion, while admitting points andinstants and denying infinitesimal distances in space or periods in time.
This is in fact true; but the view that an infinite number of instants make up an infinitely long time is not true, and therefore the conclusion that Achilles will never overtake the tortoise does not follow.
It shows that, if Achilles ever overtakes the tortoise, it must be after an infinite number of instants have elapsed since he started.
Zeno, as we shall see, proved that analysis into points and instants was impossible if we adhered to the view that the number of points or instants in a finite space or time must be finite.
Thirdly, if we assume that there is always some change going on somewhere during the time when any given event persists, the series of instants ought to be compact, i.
Whether the Pythagoreans themselves believed space and time to be composed of indivisible points and instants is a debatable question.
From a casket Maximus immediately drew forth a little silver statue of the Sun-god, Mithra-Helios; and the smith in a few instants soldered it to the staff of the Labarum.
For some instants Artaban sustained the gaze of the Roman without speaking, and Julian again felt the fascination of those eyes, so intelligent, audacious, and servile.
It was a curious fact that for a few instants the mountain and the great cold were real and this was but fancy.
The Sub-Prefect and the guards met his suite a few instants after they had quitted Calade, and followed him till he arrived at the gates of Aix, at two in the morning.
A few instants later several dragoons, amongst whom I recognised none but MM.
Sword answered sword, the blades crossed, and at the end of a fewinstants the marquis fell, Jean's sword piercing his chest.
A few instants later fresh noises were heard in the street, and the gates of the palace court groaned under blows of axe and crowbar.
Some instants after she pitied her: surely she must have had great obstacles--some grim sentinel must have stood in her way--and she might have fallen angry herself thinking of these things.
As there was not urgent need of reaching Ornes, we resolved to tarry a few instants in one of the shelters on the farm.
Gabrielle began to laugh, as if all the agitations of the past instants had been dissipated into nothingness by the jest of such a question.
I suppose that between the instants [alpha] and [beta] I have moved neither my body nor my eye, as I know from my muscular sense.
Whence comes the feeling that between any two instants there are others?
The gardener maintained that, a few instants after the shriek was heard in my mother's room, he had seen a man, unknown to him, running through the bushes in the garden to the gate into the street.
For some instants he stood in the same place, pressing his bare feet on the chill floor.
Some instants passed before he succeeded in getting the candle alight.
Some instants passed by--still the same cruel hush.
He would have said, if he would have said anything absolute, that she was a person who had something on her mind; at instants she had that hunted air, passing at other instants into that air of escape.
We were confronted across our distance quite long enough for me to ask myself with intensity who then he was and to feel, as an effect of my inability to say, a wonder that in a few instants more became intense.
While these instants lasted, indeed, I had the extraordinary chill of feeling that it was I who was the intruder.
Seguin insists strongly upon these three periods, and urges that the colours be left for several instants under the eyes of the child.
Allowing the letters to lie for some instants upon the table, the directress asks the child, "What is this?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
