We see in this history the transition from the patriarchal nomad condition to agriculture.
The transition from nomadic to sedentary life must of necessity have been slow and gradual, and there is nothing that obliges us to say with Goethe that the Bible exaggerates the length of the sojourn in the wilderness.
Secondly, their adoption of Canaanite civilisation, and, as a consequence, a more completetransition to agricultural life.
The transition from an elective monarchy to a rigidly despotic government, had been too rapidly completed.
It was like being in a land of transition where the most diverse influences crossed and mingled.
It must have been to Him a spot and season of calm and grateful repose; a pleasing transition from the rude hatred and heartless formalism which met Him in the degenerate "City of Solemnities.
In Me, death is no longer death; it is only a parenthesis in life--a transition to a loftier stage of being.
In view of the subject of this book--namely, the transition from an old social order to present times--it should be considered whether the handiness of the villagers is after all quite so natural a thing as is commonly supposed.
In looking for signs of new growth, it must be observed that not all steps in the transition are equally significant.
The transitionfrom the dark coloration of hatchlings to the paler coloration of adults is gradual and subject to individual variation.
We were experiencing at this time the rapid transition of seasons which characterizes this climate.
It is still of the characteristic transition limestone, very uninviting, snow-covered, and destitute; but we look at it longingly.
Estonia was the only Baltic state not to have a transitionperiod imposed by the EU prior to its implementation of a free trade agreement.
Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the ex-Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects.
To Geoffrey it seemed to emphasize Margaret's youth and companionability when, in following his changing moods, she could so readily make the transition from the sublime to the ridiculous.
From the saints the priest descended to Chicago, a transition which awoke several.
In this way some of the young nobles rid themselves of ennui, and reverted by an easy transition to the condition of their immediate ancestors.
They do, however, reveal a sort of transition stage between the riotous florescence of the Comstock and the mellowness of his later style.
The sudden transition from the rugged fields to this garnished and decorated retreat was striking, and held my imagination captive a few moments.
We have often endeavoured in vain to recollect in what manner our discourse began, and especially by what transition it passed to a subject sufficiently remote from all the associations we were able to trace.
But the leap of an hour from a citizen to a prince--from the victim of oppression to the dispenser of justice--is a transition so sudden as to render dizzy the most sober brain.
Those who have visited new and "unsettled" countries will be able to testify how easily man passes into a savage state, and how pleasant the transition is to his inferior nature.
But pardon me for carrying you withouttransition from a wedding to a funeral--let us leave the graveyard and return to the church.
His transition to the upper air had effected a curious change in him.
The abrupt transition from darkness to light was bewildering.
Among insects, the nymph, or pupa, the transition stage between the larval and the adult form, is generally a striking picture of every weakness of a budding organism.
There is no transition stage between the two systems.
Before long, by a transition very usual in that age, he exchanged divinity for law; but his interest was still in the former study, and he eagerly embraced the Reformed doctrines.
The play within a play, of which Hamlet and the Taming of the Shrew are English examples, was, at this transition period, a favourite stage incident in France.
The universe is in motion in every particle of every part; rock and metal merely a transition stage between crystallization and dissolution.
Not until these function vigorously and harmoniously can the hope for the termination of this period of transition be realized.
This transition must have been accomplished in Mesopotamia during the course of the eighth century.
Ukhaiḍir belongs to the time of transition from the round or ovoid to the pointed arch.
The brick arches at Ṭûbah are a stilted, slightly pointed oval; that is to say that the transition from the ovoid to the pointed arch is illustrated here in much the same manner as at Ukhaiḍir.
By the time of Diocletian the transition upon the Arabian limes from camp to fortress had been completed.
When he entered Harvard as a Freshman in 1876, that institution was passing through its transition from college to university, which had begun when Charles W.
If there is to be the larger reservation, during the transition period which I have suggested above, nothing need now be done.
But if this view cannot prevail then I suggest that during the transition period the patronage in connexion with the Supreme Court should, at all events, be reserved.
I love you," he began, with the incongruity of one who passes without transition from long meditation to the spoken word.
