Gradually this ocean shifted its bulk into two or three main bodies that sank into hollows of the viscid crust, the precursors of Atlantic, Pacific, and the Indian Seas.
In place of the ichthyosaurs we get the huge cetaceans; in place of the deinosaurs we get the mammoth and the mastodon; in place of the dominant reptile groups we get the firstprecursors of man himself.
This, however, did not save these writers from having formerly been considered, by Protestants, precursors of Luther’s doctrines.
His letters are naturally not devoid of traces of the theological change which was going forward within him, and they may therefore be considered among the precursors of his future doctrine.
The foreground of this group is occupied by the precursors of Christ.
The picture is interesting as the only specimen in Bruges of the precursors of Van Eyck on the lower Rhine.
Savery inherited the gaudy style of the Breughels, which he carried into the 17th century; whilst Everdingen realized the large and effective system of coloured and powerfully shaded landscape which marks the precursors of Rembrandt.
Marie de France in the 13th century, Gilles Corrozet, Guillaume Haudent and Guillaume Gueroult in the 16th, are now studied mainly as the precursors of La Fontaine, from whom he may have borrowed a stray hint or the outline of a story.
And I dare say that Senhor Oliveira Lima is one of the rare precursors of just such a diplomacy.
Was it Mr. Winthrop who said of Columbus and his compeers: 'They were the pioneers in the march to independence; the precursors in the only progress of freedom which was to have no backward steps.
These were the precursors of a series of similar volumes, necessarily unequal at times, but on the whole constituting such a mass of highly complex miniature fiction as seldom before had proceeded from the pen of a single writer.
As a matter of observation, specially differentiated modes of behaviour, often very elaborate, frequently requiring highly developed skill, and apparently highly charged with emotional tone, are the precursors of pairing.
Nor is the mention by Plutarch of a certain almost typographical trick of Agesilaus, King of Sparta, excuse enough for those who have counted him among the precursors of Gutenberg.
On the other hand, in the first early periods of that dialectic development in the Indo-European family, the precursors of Greek and Italic cannot have been separated by any very wide boundary.
We learnt to perceive that though much in the thought and the lives of the literary precursors of the Revolution laid them fairly open to Carlyle's banter, yet banter was not all, and even grave condemnation was not all.
Flowers, whether for their own sake or as the necessary precursors of the fruit and seed, are objects of the greatest concern to the gardener.
There were in the observatory stone quadrants, the precursors of our mural quadrants.
Moreover, in the great temples, grand processional services were celebrated, the precursors of some that still endure.
Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul.
Defn: One of theprecursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.
I shall now refer to a group of writers and thinkers who are generally known as the precursors of Hus.
I have availed myself of its contents when writing of the precursors of Hus In chapter ii.
In 1842 Palacky read a paper on "The Precursors of Hus" before the Bohemian Society of Sciences.
Portugal and Holland, her precursors in ocean enterprise, had long ago fallen hopelessly behind.
The day had been fair and warm; but the sky was now thick with clouds, and large rain-drops began to fall, the precursors of a summer storm.
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