Except for the torn rigging and a few dents here and there few signs could be discovered that the vessels had engaged in one of the most decisive naval battles of modern times.
He told me it was the hottest fire any artillery has had to stand in modern times.
Still, the best masters of this style undoubtedly attained great renown, and have found brilliant imitators, not only in Roman, but in modern times.
In art, poetry, science, the spread of culture, and the investigation of the basis of truth, it yields to no other epoch of equal length in the history of modern times.
Nor in modern times could we find a single language in which the idioms of the best writers could be reduced to conformity with strict rule.
Spain, in the Middle Ages and far into modern times, presented the anomaly of a nation and government most ardently devoted to orthodox Christianity and to the church, and yet jealous and impatient of the powers of the Pope.
In the fifteenth century those who had gained this knowledge were fewer than in modern times, but the class who did so believe were no less sure of it.
To these four main sources we have made many additions in modern times, building an entirely new superstructure on the old foundations, but the groundwork of our civilization is composed of these four foundation elements.
Was the Christian or the pagan attitude more nearly like that of modern times?
The words, "according to the evidence," have doubtless been introduced into the above oaths in modern times.
It is strange, in modern times, to note the frequency with which the Parliament, and even the popular party in it, resorted to the fiction of Breach of Privilege in order to quash opposition to their proceedings.
To continue it in modern times would be to open the door to license: it would be abused; everybody would be putting away his wife; there must therefore be no longer any such Permissive Bill, but a strict Law of indissoluble marriage.
This is not the place to deal with this subject, but it may be said that France quickly learned that nothing was ready and the nation went down in the most sudden and awful disaster of modern times.
In 1857 he first took rank as one of the great moral forces of modern times.
The doctrine of contract has been so thoroughly remodelled to meet the needs of modern times, that there is less here than elsewhere for historical research.
It is very true that in modern times many of the effects of either relation--master and servant or principal and agent--may be accounted for as the result of acts done by the master himself.
Another example may perhaps be found in the shape which has been given in modern times to the liability for animals, and in the derivative principle of Rylands v.
In modern times, at least, if not in early law, such rights can be created by covenant as well [394] as by grant.
Religious rites were practised during the forging of a blade down to modern times.
We have seen that the history of military rule in Japan embraces nearly the whole period of authentic history, down to modern times, and closes with the second period of national integration.
Later the office of Kwambaku, or Regent, was established, and remained hereditary in the house down to modern times--ages after all real power had been taken from the descendants of Nakatomi no Kamatari.
It is the great subject of modern times, how to fertilize without ruinous expense; how, in short, not to starve the earth to death while we get our living out of it.
It is sufficient for our purpose to take the well-defined theory of modern times.
If they personally went too far in their intrigues or stratagems of decoy, the disgrace no more recoiled on the god, than, in modern times, the vices or crimes of a priest can affect the pure religion at whose altars he officiates.
Hence we find that a familiarity and common consent existed between primitive man and many of his companion animals such as has been lost or much attenuated in modern times.
Again, when the study of religious origins first began in modern times to be seriously taken up--say in the earlier part of last century--there was a great boom in Sungods.
Herodotus [93] tells a story of the mother of Demaratus, king of Sparta, which bears a striking resemblance to the fairy tales of modern times.
Like the conjurors of modern times, they took care to be extensively informed as to all such matters respecting which the oracle was likely to be consulted.
The latter is the prevailing sentiment of mankind in modern times.
Next to sorcery we may recollect the case of witchcraft, which occurs oftener, particularly in modern times, than any other alleged mode of changing by supernatural means the future course of events.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
