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Sentences starting with ages

Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to take from him--his brain--have made that tool singularly competent; ages of compulsory disuse of his hands have atrophied them, and he never uses them now. [5]
Ages seemed to pass before the boat was let down even with the bulwarks, and a crew of ten, with Hungerford in command, were in it, ready to be lowered. [11]
Ages of culture on the island have gone deeper than the surface, and they have simpler and more natural manners than we. [4]
Ages of rain had run down the slope, circling, eddying in depressions, wearing deep round holes. [13]

Sentences ending with ages

I'm sorry I was blue, but it did seem as if everything had been going against us for whole ages. [5]
But, as I told you, I shall change their lives and those ages. [5]
As a companion to that, nothing fits so aptly and so perfectly as this: Brooklyn has revived the knightly tournament of the Middle Ages. [5]
For the last three days Paulette Dubois had turned a sorrowful face upon them, and with one hand upraised had spoken the prayer, the prophecy, the thanksgiving, the appeal of humanity and the ages. [11]
He therefore launched this shaft of ridicule, and got it to pass as an arrow of wisdom shot out of a popular experience in remote ages. [4]
The subject of this memoir was of a vicious disposition, and early prostituted his talents to the invention of maxims and aphorisms calculated to inflict suffering upon the rising generation of all subsequent ages. [5]
In its bowels the theological forces have been heaving and tossing, rumbling, thundering and quaking, boiling, and weltering and flaming and smoking for ages. [5]
They laid bare the secrets of dead ages. [5]
The demeanour of the people had been so humble and rapt that the place and the plateau and the valley seemed alone in creation with the lofty drama of the ages. [11]
The remainder of the company was arranged in the order of precedency, which they held in the priests' colleges, and which bore no relation to their respective ages. [10]

Short sentences using ages

He ages every day. [12]

Sentences containing ages two or more times

And this is what came of that fleeting visit of those young Englishmen to our village such ages and ages ago! [5]
It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
It takes ages to bring forth a Shakespeare, and some more ages to match him. [5]
She had not been so happy for ages and ages, it seemed to her. [5]

More example sentences with the word ages in them

Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
And with that womanly gesture which has been the same through the ages she put up her hand; deftly tucking in the stray wisp behind. [9]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
My room-mate thought, when he first came, it was the bell tolling deaths, and people's ages, as they do in the country. [6]
We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference. [6]
All of which went to show that Mr. Goodrich had not referred to the Middle Ages in vain. [9]
The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
It was when we lived in Ransome Street, ages ago. [9]
I said "petrified" was good; as I believed, myself, that the only right way to classify the majestic ages of some of those jokes was by geologic periods. [5]
Twilight ages of war and scourge and stress and storm--and faith. [9]
With its massive walls and heavy, red-tiled roof that sloped steeply to many points, it seemed firmly planted for ages to come. [9]
They were of various ages and of many different nationalities, every one of them with the vague terror hanging over him or her. [6]
Between that first utterance and the last time it will be uttered on this earth--ah, think how many moldering ages will lie in that gap! [5]
Each in his turn those little supernaturals of our by-gone ages and aeons joined the monster procession of his predecessors and marched horizonward, disappeared, and was forgotten. [5]
High above the turmoil Coniston, as through the ages, looked down upon the scene impassive. [9]
It is the torch which is to light the world and the ages with her glory. [5]
The passengers came to the table, but it was partly to put in the time, and partly because the wisdom of the ages commanded them to be regular in their meals. [5]
It dates back to the shadowy ages of tradition, and was the birthplace of gods renowned in Grecian mythology. [5]
To go back to the Middle Ages would be to deteriorate and degenerate. [9]
Think how superior to it earth would be, with its variety of types and faces and ages, and the enlivening attrition of the myriad interests that come into pleasant collision in such a variegated society. [5]
Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone. [5]
Half a dozen times I have wished I had sailed long ago in some ship that wasn't going to keep me chained here to chafe for lagging ages while she got ready to go. [5]
We wandered for three hours among the chambers and crypts and dungeons of the fortress, and trod where the mailed heels of many a knightly Crusader had rang, and where Phenician heroes had walked ages before them. [5]
I still remember though Ages have fled. [11]
Many people believe this spot to be an ancient battle-ground, and it is usual to call it so; and they believe that these skeletons have lain for ages just where their proprietors fell in the great fight. [5]
In barbarous ages this object was accomplished by violence; it is now attained by skill and adroitness. [4]
In this respect they are at the same stage of development as infants, between the ages of ten and twelve months, who understand many words and short sentences, but cannot yet utter a single word. [1]
One by one these were admitted within that charmed circle, whose motto for ages had been "No Trade," to leaven it with their gold. [9]
Even after all these ages, the belief, the hope would not down. [9]
Human nature in these ages is indebted to him for its best portrait. [6]
From this condition there is but a very small step to the complete absence of spots in the adults at all seasons; and, lastly, to their absence at all ages and seasons, as occurs with certain species. [1]
It seemed to them that they were as brothers who were one and who had parted in ages long gone; and having met were to part and disappear once more, beginning still another trail in an endless reincarnation. [11]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
The difference in their ages was not so great. [9]
We passed through the strangest, funniest, undreampt-of old towns, wedded to the customs and steeped in the dreams of the elder ages, and perfectly unaware that the world turns round! [5]
The crossing of the Rubicon was not the first one, it was hardly even a recent one; I should have to go back ages before Caesar's day to find the first one. [5]
Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment. [13]
The awakening of the nations of Europe from the dark ages is a still more perplexing problem. [1]
The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine. [6]
Down out of the long-vanished past, across the abyss of the ages, if you listen, you can still hear the believing multitudes shouting for Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel. [5]
If I am the latest graduate, I really and sincerely hope I am not the final flower of its seven centuries; I hope it may go on for seven ages longer. [5]
Last night, for the first time in ages, we went to the theatre--to see Yorick's Love. [5]
Twenty-four hours after the falling of the cliff, it seemed as if it had happened ages ago. [6]
The fact of the business is, you've got to be one of two ages to appreciate Scott. [5]
Let us average the ages of the Quaker City's pilgrims and set the figure down as fifty years. [5]
I was thinking that you were born to play a part in many dramas, that you have the fatal beauty which is rare in all ages. [9]
Every one knows that this was Klopstock's birthplace; but the greatest geographer of all ages, Karl Ritter, whose mighty mind grasped the whole universe as if it were the precincts of his home, also first saw the light of the world here. [10]
It seemed incredible that the majestic and awful Institution of the ages could be dissolved with no smoke or fire, with such infinite indifference, and so much spitting. [9]
It is believed that it stands upon the site of what must have been, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions, judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered through Tiberias and down the lake shore southward. [5]
When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. [5]
And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. [5]
There is a terrible parallax between the period before thirty and that after threescore and ten, as two men of those ages look, one with naked eyes, one through his spectacles, at the man of fifty and thereabout. [6]
But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner? [5]
The grave is surrounded by a low wall of loose stones, to which each visitor adds one, and in the course of ages the cairn may grow to a good size. [4]
I feel quite sure that it is a worship which will continue during ages. [5]
She, Janet, seemed suddenly to have grown old herself, to have lived through ages of misery and tragedy.... She was aware of a pungent odour, went to the stove, picked up the fork, and turned the steak. [9]
It has the sturdy task of a pioneer, to hack away at the tall oaks and cut the rough granite, leaving future ages to declare what it has done. [5]
That "union is strength" is a truth that has been known, illustrated, and declared in various ways and forms in all ages of the world. [7]
The mountains always stood here, and the Au Sable, flowing now in shallows and now in rippling reaches over the sands and pebbles, has for ages filled the air with continuous and soothing sounds. [4]
The longer I stay here, the more respect I have for the taste of the monks of the Middle Ages. [4]
One who attracts so many men of all ages can scarcely be expected to know the abode of each individual. [10]
I remember how she smiled down at me with the wisdom of the ages in her eyes, seeking my hand with a gesture that was almost maternal. [9]
Dorcas really thinks she raised George, and that is one of her prides, but perhaps it was a mutual raising, for their ages were the same--thirteen years short of mine. [5]
The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago. [5]
He began his series of tales of the middle ages and the dawn of the modern era in 1881 with The Burgomaster's Wife. [10]
But Cynthia sat serene, the eternal feminine of all the ages, and it is no wonder that Bob Worthington was baffled as he looked at her. [9]
We accept the saying unquestioning, as a sort of inspiration out of the air, true because nobody has challenged it for ages, and probably for the same reason that we try to see the new moon over our left shoulder. [4]
It has been said that for ages Dilsberg has been merely a thriving and diligent idiot-factory. [5]
This is a ruined Khan of the Middle Ages, in one of whose side courts is a great walled and arched pit with water in it, and this pit, one tradition says, is the one Joseph's brethren cast him into. [5]
But the vast ruin will still stand for ages, to shame the puny labors of these modern generations of men. [5]
Pisa was a republic in the middle ages, with a government of her own, armies and navies of her own and a great commerce. [5]
Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. [5]
That is by Queensland law the age of consent, though it is held that recruiters allow themselves some latitude in guessing at ages. [5]
It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came after. [5]
The idea of popular sovereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born--indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. [7]
But, like this pillar, outward Beauty--the sense of form that characterized the heathen mind--has survived through the ages. [10]
Was that instinct--thought petrified by ages of inherited habit? [5]
Is it instinct?--thought petrified by ages of habit--or isn't it brand-new thought, inspired by the new occasion, the new circumstances? [5]
And it was Paul who was chiefly instrumental in freeing the message from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sending it ringing down the ages to us. [9]
No--it is the patient work of countless ages. [5]
He has only packed away in his mind the wisdom of the ages, and he does not intend to be stingy about communicating it to the world which is awaiting his graduation. [4]
Thy martyrs in other ages were cast into the flames, but no fire could touch their immortal and indestructible faith. [6]
Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. [5]
It is all one,--to be a Roman poet in his villa, a lazy friar of the Middle Ages toasting in the sun, or a modern idler, who has drifted here out of the active currents of life, and cannot make up his mind to depart. [4]
We stopped at one place to see the Gladstone Cliff, a great crag which the ages and the weather have sculptured into a recognizable portrait of the venerable statesman. [5]
Phantom ships are on the sea, the dead of twenty centuries come forth from the tombs, and in the dirges of the night wind the songs of old forgotten ages find utterance again. [5]
He had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and Sonya's joint ages. [2]
These vast places of worship were built for ages when faith was the rule and questioning the exception. [6]
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. [5]
The greater death-rate of infants in the poorest classes is also very important; as well as the greater mortality, from various diseases, of the inhabitants of crowded and miserable houses, at all ages. [1]
Remember the ages of border warfare between England and Scotland, closed at last by the union of the two kingdoms. [6]
To maintain, independently of any direct evidence, that no animal during the course of ages has progressed in intellect or other mental faculties, is to beg the question of the evolution of species. [1]
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. [5]
The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the-- [Here I was interrupted and informed that a stranger wished to see me down at the door. [5]
Then came carryalls of all ages and degrees, wagons from this county and that county, giddily draped, drawn by horses from one to six, or by mules, their inscriptions addressing their senatorial candidate in all degrees of familiarity, but not contempt. [9]
This, surely, had not been the fashion of other loves, called unlawful, the classic instances celebrated by the poets of all ages rose to mock me. [9]
For several ages no woman has been allowed to enter the cavern where that important hole is. [5]
As one stands near it in front, it seems to tower away into heaven, a mass of carving and sculpture,--figures of saints and martyrs who have stood in the sun and storm for ages, as they stood in their lifetime, with a patient waiting. [4]

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