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Example sentences for "its turn"

  • In the absence of trade there is a proportionate amount of idleness; and that idleness, in its turn, breeds beggary, vagabondism, and crime.

  • The torch, the sponge, the anathema, have been tried each in its turn.

  • A second Milan was founded, but only to fall, in its turn, before the arms of Frederick Barbarossa.

  • This was done, and a little before four o'clock, at the moment when the sailor's torch went out in its turn, Cyrus Harding and his companions passed out of the passage.

  • This catching fire in its turn, would break, and the mass of iron would fall on the nitro-glycerine.

  • When the trumpet had in its turn ceased, with its thrilling and doleful notes, to agitate the immense assembly, the voice of the herald again addressed them.

  • His thoughts were such as animated or alarmed him alternately, each followed by a confused throng of accompaniments which it suggested, and banished again in its turn by reflections of another description.

  • That colossus raised to the memory of so much frightful slaughter which had uselessly put an end to so many human lives, ought, he considered, to be slaughtered in its turn.

  • Then wooded masses rose one above the other, until they reached the heights of Le Buala, which were surmounted by the Serre de Julos, in its turn capped by the Miramont.

  • On the sea-coast there are eight great openings, each of which has evidently, at some ancient period, served in its turn as the principal channel of discharge.

  • It has already been stated, that chemical changes develop electricity; which, in its turn, becomes a powerful disturbing cause.

  • Midnight, midnight was near, the last, the final hope which remained, came in its turn.

  • Modern Theosophy, as well as the Wisdom of old, says in its turn: Spirit is the All, the one Being, the only Being that exists.

  • When the purgatorial life is at an end and the astral body disintegrates in its turn, the soul functions in the mental body, in the mental world.

  • The lower half retains the aspect of a limb; it is crowned by a vein without lateral nerves or blade-like expansions, and this stalk in its turn bears a short limb on its summit.

  • Each generation in its turn is a motley assembly of singles and doubles.

  • Does the insect in its turn receive a lasting impression of its earliest visions?

  • This partition in its turn serves as the rear-wall of another chamber, which is first victualled and then closed; and so on until the cylinder is sufficiently colonized and receives a thick terminal stopper at its orifice.

  • Moreover, at the nesting period, the six ovarian sheaths, one by one and each in its turn, have at their base an egg which in a very short time swells enormously.

  • Each of these (2 squared) arrangements can be combined, in its turn, with each of the two positions of the third Osmia.

  • To injure others while at the same time knowingly injuring one's self is a step farther; evil then becomes a frenzy, which, in its turn, sharpens into a cold ferocity.

  • And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality.

  • Then the young Crania adhered to the bared shell, grew and perished in its turn; after which the upper valve was separated from the lower before the Ananchytes became enveloped in chalky mud.

  • These dolerites are cut through by intrusive syenite, and this syenite, in its turn, is again cut and penetrated by feldspar porphyry, the base of which consists of petrosilex, or a mixture of orthoclase and quartz.

  • Thus we see that each and every condition of the phenomenon may be taken in its turn, and, with equal propriety in common parlance, but with equal impropriety in scientific discourse, may be spoken of as if it were the entire cause.

  • We cannot ascertain from what simple feelings any of our complex states of mind are generated, as we ascertain the ingredients of a chemical compound, by making it, in its turn, generate them.

  • An instance of such restriction, and of its injurious effect, occurs at the port of Newcastle, where a particular Act of Parliament requires that every ship shall be loaded in its turn.

  • This, in its turn, is superseded by the wedge, which rends it in a still shorter time.

  • One of the results is, that coal may be used instead of coke; and this, in its turn, diminishes the quantity of limestone which is required for the fusion of the iron stone.

  • Stofler; its own rampart being overlapped in its turn by two smaller ring-plains on the S.

  • The day is the time for society and labour; the night, wrapping up the earth with its shadow, ends, in its turn, all manner of fatigue and alleviates the toil of the day.

  • In that infinite variety of new spectacles of nature, the present was formed in its turn.

  • This system could not fail having its place, since all others without exception are to have theirs, each in its turn.

  • The mind would indeed have certain thoughts when the body should have certain motions, but the body would not be determined to have, in its turn, certain motions, as soon as the mind should have certain thoughts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hand work; its body; its chief; its course; its effect; its existence; its former; its general; its head; its history; its influence; its kind; its object; its origin; its position; its present; its side; its true; its use; its walls; itself only; itself sufficient; rural school; severe cold; this camp; took notice