They must have been first peopled, like other newly-formed islands, by the action of winds and currents, and at a period sufficiently remote to have had the original species die out, and the modified prototypes only remain.
Again, each of these groups may not have become totally extinct, but may have left a few species, the modified prototypes of which have existed in each succeeding period, a faint memorial of their former grandeur and luxuriance.
Only the Mesvinian stage is generally accepted by archaeologists, and this embraces the prototypes of the Lower Palaeolithic culture, which among most French authors are termed Pre-Chellean or Proto-Chellean.
Prototypes of the Solutrean laurel-leaf point, probably an implement of war or the chase.
Prototypes of 'coup de poing' formed of flint nodules with crust only partially removed.
Only a few stations have been discovered where the Palaeolithic men were first fashioning their flints into prototypes of the Chellean and Acheulean forms.
This type of flint is constantly found associated with rudely formed prototypes of the Solutrean laurel-leaf point.
Some were doubtless reenactments of the Mosaic law; while others would be exaggerations or additions of a rigorous asceticism, such as we find among the Essene prototypes of these Colossian heretics, e.
The rigour of the Colossian false teachers however, like that of their Jewish prototypes the Essenes, doubtless went far beyond the injunctions of the law.
The head of Serapis was the eternal Mind; in his broad breast slept the Soul of the Universe, and the prototypes of all created things; the world of matter was the footstool under his feet.
These Nâgas, whether kings or queens, gods or goddesses, were the prototypes of the Eastern Asiatic dragon, whose origin is discussed in Chapter II.
Houssay regards as the prototypesof the swastika and the triskele respectively.
But it is essentially and pre-eminently the symbol of rain; and the god who controls the rain, Chac of the Mayas, Tlaloc of the Aztecs, carried the axe and the thunderbolt like his homologues and prototypes in the Old World.
In all his racecourse pictures the very horses have that delicate balance of mincing tread that we first feel when we look at their prototypes in life--that dainty and slight resiliency as of weight on springs.
In fact, there are no moving forms in an aesthetic organisation which do not have theirprototypes in the human body in action.
In 1700 he opened a series of popular concerts, the prototypes of the star combinations of the present day.
Inquisitors of faith were established; they were at once spies and judges, theprototypes of the most fearful tribunal of modern times.
But the High Priest Aaron is a personification of the Jewish Ark of the Covenant, that is, of the visible expression of the Covenant between God and man, one of the chief prototypes of the Messiah.
But the violent death of John at Herod's command and the head of the prophet upon the dish have prototypes in the myth of Cadmus.
These, and such churches built by the Romans as were then, though in a dilapidated state, existing, may reasonably be supposed to have been the prototypes of the Christian churches afterwards erected in this country.
Rude clubs have become weapons of curious construction and machinery of marvelous complication, and the pebbles and shells are the prototypes of numerous works in all materials.
Their works were theprototypes of the regular Italian comedy, as it appeared in the plays of Ariosto, Aretine, Ludovico Dolce, and Battista Porta.
On the other hand, mimetic gestures of every species, except dancing, were essential to the Roman Mimes, as also the exhibition of grotesque characters, which had often no prototypes in real life.
Sir George Etheredge is neither an edifying nor an attractive writer of comedy, but his plays are of considerable historical importance as prototypes of the comedy of manners afterwards so brilliantly developed by Congreve.
A funnel-shaped vase and a beak-mouthed jug are obvious prototypes of Mycenaean forms.
It is, moreover, possible to discover their prototypes in the Proto-Corinthian wares.
Der Freischütz" and "Euryanthe" prototypesof his operas.
On the contrary, she represented abundant prototypes in the mythologies of the East.
Now Pallas and Apollo preserve, relatively to one another, the place of their prototypes in these two cardinal respects.
Their task is the custody of the international prototypes of the metre and kilogramme and the comparison of the national prototypeswith the international.
His pages are the prototypes of the boys and servants in Peele, Chapman, Jonson, and Shakespeare.
Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class.
Indeed, the myths connected with them suggest that their prototypes were voluptuous pastoral gods.
At this house the earliestprototypes of Astley used to perform in 1758.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prototypes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
