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Example sentences for "this epoch"

  • I believe that I have now related all that is necessary to an understanding of the sleep-waker's state at this epoch.

  • This epoch--these later years--took unto themselves a sudden elevation in turpitude, whose origin alone it is my present purpose to assign.

  • The differences between the Roman law at this epoch, when we obtain our last glimpse of the sacra, and the existing Hindoo system, are most instructive.

  • Indeed, whatever be the immediate subject of a jurisconsult of this epoch, he may always be called an expositor of Equity.

  • In this epoch of perpetual warfare only one set-up is valid, that of a body of men confronting the enemy, and such is the feudal system; we can judge by this trait alone of the perils which it wards off, and of the service which it enjoins.

  • Francueil ran through seven or eight millions at this epoch.

  • To guard against the dangers of this epoch, those general rules of health which we have throughout insisted upon should be rigidly observed.

  • The social position exerts an influence on the pain and the tendency to disease at this epoch.

  • The bilious temperament predisposes to disorders of the stomach and liver at this epoch; while the union of the nervous with the bilious temperament seems to predispose to mental diseases.

  • Perhaps the much-disputed poem called Pervigilium Veneris belongs to this epoch.

  • Without strength of character, without independence of thought, both of which indeed were almost extinct at this epoch, his one object was to ingratiate himself with those who could fill his purse.

  • Another speaker of this epoch is CARRO, son of the Carbo already mentioned, an adherent of the senatorial party, and opponent of the celebrated Livius Drusus.

  • All these facts taken together certainly lead to the inference that the position of the Roman finances at this epoch was on the whole favourable.

  • But of still greater moment was the construction of the imperial highways in the provinces, which beyond doubt began in this epoch.

  • Her fleet was formidable; it amounted at this epoch to five hundred vessels.

  • It is not uninteresting to recall to mind how Livy appreciates the institutions which Macedonia and Illyria received at this epoch.

  • At this epoch, an unforeseen event, which changed the destinies of the world, came to demonstrate the difference between the rapid creation of a man of genius and the patient work of an intelligent aristocracy.

  • This epoch marks a new phase in the destinies of Rome, who is going, for the first time, to measure herself with Greece.

  • Ur-Bau may probably be regarded as representative of the earlier patesis of this epoch, who, while acting with freedom and independence within the limits of their own state, refrained from embarking on any policy of conquest or expansion.

  • Quetelet's list contains at least five exhibitions which belong to this epoch.

  • It may be mentioned, as at least a coincidence, that the earth passes the approximate intersection of her orbit with that of Biela's comet at the date of this epoch.

  • It is certainly important that the meteors of this epoch should be carefully studied.

  • At least seven of the exhibitions in Quetelet's catalogue are referable to this epoch.

  • I shall probably have occasion hereafter to speak of the solidarity of the Church at this epoch.

  • Skilful writers have gone over before us this epoch, so abundant in great events and in lessons of policy.

  • We have still a valuable monument of this epoch in a charter, by which the king of France stipulates how much he is to pay to a great number of barons and knights during the time the war beyond the seas should last.

  • From the Pavilion de Flore to the Pavilion de Lesdiguières ran this long gallery of the Ducerceau and numerous interstices and unfinished vaults and arches leading towards the Old Louvre were, at this epoch, completed by Metezeau and Dupaira.

  • Madame de Sévigné, in one of her many published letters, writes of the splendours which she saw at Conflans at this epoch.

  • Guido Tarlati, of the great Pietra-mala house, was Bishop and despot of Arezzo at this epoch.

  • Yet the fact remains that good wine of Montepulciano can still allure barbarians of this epoch to the spot where it is grown.

  • The famous Conte Guido, whom Dante placed among the fraudulent in hell, supported the honours of the house and increased its power by his political action, at this epoch.

  • But the male development at this epoch is pre-eminently one of adaptation to environment; equipping him with bone and muscle, brain and enterprise, aggressiveness, initiative and energy.

  • And this it is that causes some women to acquire masculine traits at this epoch.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fellow creatures; her return; must keep; this arrangement; this castle; this circumstance; this committee; this convention; this district; this epoch; this fact; this field; this idea; this kingdom; this matter; this passage; this piece; this question; this realm; this remark; this stage; this time; this unexpected; this village; this will; this year