With this notion they admitted, without difficulty, the most surprising origin of living creatures, provided it took place by law.
Christianity and Islam are revisions; within them other revisions (schisms) took place, such as the Roman and Orthodox churches, the Sunni and Shiite.
This juncture in the self-definition of the species occurred when the transition, from selected natural marks to marking, and later to stable patterns of sounds, eventually leading to words, took place.
The reader must not suppose that I even attempt to reproduce everything exactly as it took place in our conversations, or when we met to listen to the Master's prose or to the Young Astronomer's verse.
It was an unpleasant affair; and I do not care to repeat the particulars; but some young men had been using sacred things in a profane and unlawful way, when the occurrence, which was variously explained, took place.
I am going to surprise my reader with a letter which I received very shortly after the conversation took place which I have just reported.
Thus it was that for one month I was most grievously tormented; and then it was that these two assaults of Satan, of which I have just spoken, took place.
It was early summer when the tournament took place; but some months had passed since Launcelot's departure, and winter was now near at hand.
Launcelot demanded the battle for the next day, and accordingly it took place, at the foot of the tower, and under the eyes of the fair captive.
Some reaction then, perhaps, took place, but, on the whole, the numbers of the sect have been maintained or increased.
The sack of Delhi by Tîmûr Lang (Tamerlane) took placein December 1398.
One insurrectionary movement, indeed, took place in England, and another in Scotland.
But it is certain, that whatever may have been, according to technical rules of construction, the effect of the statute under which the trial took place, it was most unjust to hang a Hindoo for forgery.
A tempest of execration and derision, such as can be compared only to that outbreak of public feeling against the Puritans which took place at the time of the Restoration, burst on the servants of the Company.
In 1813 the charter of the East India Company was renewed; and much discussion about Indian affairs took place in Parliament.
It is strange that we hear nothing of Thorfinn in this, and the question arises whether he had died before it took place.
It took place at Aeginium not far from the source of the Peneius.
It was a catastrophe which vividly reminds us of that which occurred almost on the same spot in 1792; and, just as with the campaign in Champagne, the defeat was all the more severe that it took place without a battle.
However desirable the putting an end to the government of the senate could not but be in itself, it was, if it took place in this way, far less a victory for their party than a personal victory for their over-powerful ally.
Mrs Gowan attributed certain views of furthering the marriage to my friend here, in conversation with me before it took place; and I endeavoured to undeceive her.
That,' said Mrs Chivery, 'took place on that same day when to this house I see that John with these eyes return.
The following facts are more correct, or at all events more probable:--the death of Desaix was not perceived at the moment it took place.
He reckoned that the grand assault against the tower could not be made before that day; it took place, however, twenty-four hours sooner.
This scene--for it can be called by no other name--took place in the morning.
Several violent executions, and confiscations of considerable sums found in the houses searched, took place.
It took place on this occasion at Saint Germains, although the King of England occupied the chateau.
Duc d'Orleans, arranging my visit so that it took place when he was in his apartments at the Tuileries; there I spoke with such effect, that he said I had only to show myself to the King.
The two carpenters from the "San Carlos," with a squad of sailors, were set to work on the new buildings, and on September 17 the foundation ceremonies of the presidio took place.
In 1829 the famous campaign against Estanislas, who has given his name to both a river and county, took place.
It was not long before the soldiers got into trouble, owing to their treatment of the Indian women, and an Indian attack, as before related, took place.
The result was that risings of the Hsiung-nu took place, whereupon Wang Mang commanded that the whole of their country should be partitioned among fifteen shan-yü and declared the country to be a Chinese province.
The new "vernacular" took place of the old "classical" literary language.
In this period, a second migration of farmers into the southern provinces, mainly Fukien and Kwangtung, took place; it had its main source in the lower Yangtze valley.
The funeral, headed by Prince William and the Knights of the Black Eagle, took place on the 20th.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "took place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
