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Example sentences for "our day"

  • A city which is without instruction suffers the usual fate of cities in our day.

  • And can we wonder that when the guardians are not adequate in speech or action, and have no adequate knowledge of virtue, the city being unguarded should experience the common fate of cities in our day?

  • But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he's ready.

  • Everyone with whom the princess had chanced to discuss the matter said the same thing: "Mercy on us, it's high time in our day to cast off all that old-fashioned business.

  • But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.

  • Upon the head of their great god Baal they placed the horns of the bull; and these have descended in popular imagination to the spirit of evil of our day.

  • In the Purânas of the Hindoos we read of pyramids long anterior in time to any which have survived to our day.

  • Our day's journey lay generally over an open forest country, with rich flats on either side of the river: high rocky limestone hills ended occasionally in abrupt points, obliging the horses to make considerable detours.

  • Our day's route was as usual over a very flat though rich country, thickly wooded with good timber of the eucalyptus and angophora species, with some fine cypresses in the looser soils, and back from the river.

  • Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.

  • Freedom to worship God" is found in England as fully as in America, in our day.

  • Dana served two years before the mast, and had every experience that falls to the lot of the sailor before the mast of our day.

  • In our day a skeleton would not be allowed to testify at all, for a skeleton has no moral responsibility, and its word could not be believed on oath, and this was probably one of them.

  • One of the prime needs of our day is the development of the spirit of loyalty, the willingness to subordinate individual welfare to that of a group, and to look upon one's own work as part of a larger endeavor.

  • Finally, a study of ethics should help us to see what are the prevalent sins and moral dangers of our day, and thus arouse us to put the weight of our blame and praise where they are needed.

  • The quotation is merely meant to show, in the shortest possible compass, that there are views entertained by speculative reasoners of our day which, according to Liebig, would lead to the inference at which Margrave so boldly arrives.

  • Van Helmont, of all the mediaeval mystics, is, in spite of his many extravagant whims, the one whose intellect is the most suggestive to the disciplined reasoners of our day.

  • Out of the dark into the light; where the leaves do not change; where the night is our day, and the winter our summer.

  • It will never be rendered superfluous, although the men of our day criticize it in detail.

  • To France and Argentina, in our day, such an increase appears highly desirable.

  • The moralists, in our day, show an increasing tendency to pay serious attention to this mass of materials.

  • Of the divine right of kings I shall not speak, for the adherents of the doctrine are in our day relegated to museums of antiquities.

  • Civilized people, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or bad fortune of a captain.

  • In our day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its antechamber.

  • France were appended exactly as in our day, the streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is visible.

  • It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has evidently served the devil.

  • Need we wonder that we are challenged to do so in our day, when mankind is several centuries older than it was in the time of Galileo?

  • Biological science of our day takes it for granted that the process uniting pollen with seed in the plant is an act of fertilization analogous to that which occurs among the higher organisms of nature.

  • Electricity in this way reveals a secret of carbon well known to the mediaeval alchemist and still known in our day to people in the Orient.

  • In this way we should accomplish a very good average distance on our day's march.

  • Our day's march was eighteen and a half miles.

  • We now adopted the habit which we kept up all the way to the south -- of taking our lunch while building the beacon that lay half-way in our day's march.

  • Doubtless, our day's march had not been a particularly long one, but the piece we had covered had indeed been fatiguing enough.

  • Our day's march was not to be a long one; the little slackening of the wind about midday was only a joke.

  • Certainly Talma on the stage was often above and beyond nature, but the Princesse de Cadignan is the greatest true comedian of our day.

  • This fine equality was formerly maintained by the House of France itself; and in our day it is so still, at least, nominally; witness the care with which the kings of France give to their sons the simple title of count.

  • Ingratitude and persecution filled it to the brim; but God pours the riches of His love into the understanding and affections, giving us strength according to our day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    custom observed; our army; our author; our being; our camp; our church; our constitution; our duty; our fathers; our government; our hero; our home; our lines; our little; our lives; our love; our mind; our own little star; our right; our side; our society; our subject; our voyage; revealed truth; steam pressure; still hunting