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Sentences starting with centuries

Centuries have passed since then, yet to-day enthusiastic artists still make pilgrimages to the hillside where the sun shines so brightly, to lay wreaths on the grave of the great architect George Peregrinus of the princely house of the Greylocks. [10]
Centuries of doom seemed crowded into that instant of time. [11]
Centuries ago our ancestors were brothers--far back in the direct line, brothers--the monks have proved it. [11]

Sentences ending with centuries

All the Old World cathedrals were the work of centuries. [4]
It is no wonder that there should be such when we remember what have been the teachings of the priesthood through long series of ignorant centuries. [6]
The great hall, with its gallery, and its hangings, and the long table made from the trunk of a single tree, carries one back into the past centuries. [6]
No cement was used, but the edifice is firm and compact and is capable of resisting storm and decay for centuries. [5]
Fox had me under his especial care, and I was presented to young gentlemen who bore names that had been the boast of England through the centuries. [9]
But farther over to the right, where Cairo lay, there hung a bluish mist, palpable and delicate, out of which emerged the vast pyramids of Cheops; and beside it the smiling inscrutable Sphinx faced the changeless centuries. [11]
It has come to such a pass that I never speak to the Man of the Monument without wanting to take my hat off and feeling as if I were looking down a vista of twenty or thirty centuries. [6]
It was given to Luigi by a great Indian prince, the Gaikowar of Baroda, and it had been in his family two or three centuries. [5]
I don't think the world cares personally for any mere man or woman dead for centuries. [4]
The reproduction of the old Gothic is so complete that the builders even seem to have brought over the ancient air from one of the churches of the Middle Ages,--you would declare it had n't been changed in two centuries. [4]

Short sentences using centuries

But of centuries. [9]

Sentences containing centuries two or more times

Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. [5]
There was Aristoteles, a very distinguished writer, of whom you have heard,--a philosopher, in short, whom it took centuries to learn, centuries to unlearn, and is now going to take a generation or more to learn over again. [6]

More example sentences with the word centuries in them

Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
The ceremonies began with the kindling of the council fire,--a rite handed down through unknown centuries of Indian usage. [9]
Like my fathers, who have enjoyed the stewardship of it for centuries, I know how to exercise the sacred duties of hospitality. [10]
It is disunion which has held our empire together for centuries, and what it has done in the past it may continue to do now and in the future. [5]
The slanting walls were built as firmly as if they were intended to last for centuries and defy a violent assault. [10]
In the same way the best of the statues were gone, with which a few centuries previously the art-loving Lagides had decorated this residence--besides which they had another, still larger, on the Bruchiom. [10]
They have made us weary, and in dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain. [5]
I was a Unique; and glad to know that that fact could not be dislodged or challenged for thirteen centuries and a half, for sure. [5]
Now, in June, two years and a month since Bickersteth had gone into the wilds, they looked down upon the goal of one at least--of the younger man who had triumphed in his quest up in these wilds abandoned centuries ago. [11]
The man born two centuries from now will think he has arrived in hell; and all in good time he will think he knows it. [5]
The germ of truth, throughout the centuries, had lost nothing of its dynamic potentialities. [9]
This has been true of the Athanasian creed, in the Anglican Church, for two centuries more or less, unless the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tillotson, stood alone in wishing the church were well rid of it. [6]
But you could treat it in the historical spirit--like something that happened several centuries ago; De Foe's Plague of London style. [8]
I half expected to see the Athenian heroes of twenty centuries ago glide out of the shadows and steal into the old temple they knew so well and regarded with such boundless pride. [5]
It is fair to presume that in thirty centuries history will not get done admiring these men who attempted what the world regarded as impossible and achieved it. [5]
It is curious to note the insular, not to say provincial, character of the people even three centuries ago. [4]
Suddenly there came to his mind the words of a great man who sought to save a city manifold centuries ago. [11]
Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! [5]
One is startled to find the method anticipated by Raymond Vieussens nearly two centuries ago. [3]
It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. [5]
Who allowed them to dance and play there all those centuries and found no fault with it? [5]
Here and there, through the history of these centuries, there have been those who have entered into this belief of their own privilege and duty, and have used the gift which they recognized. [5]
Or go rather through the great archway, and under the teeth of the portcullis, into the irregular quadrangle, whose buildings mark the changing style and fortune of successive centuries, from 1300 down to the seventeenth century? [4]
In two or three little centuries it had converted a nation of men to a nation of worms. [5]
For centuries had this startling little scene and the sudden illumination of the niche round the head of the god been worked in precisely the same way at high festivals--[They are mentioned by Rufinus. [10]
I confess that this little picture of a fire on the hearth so many centuries ago helps to make real and interesting to me that somewhat misty past. [4]
Everybody laughed at these antiquities --but then they always do; I had noticed that, centuries later. [5]
It's as though there was some other self in me which reached far, far back into centuries, that wills me to do this and wills me to do that. [11]
Upon the sides there was no verdure; upon the top centuries had made a green field. [11]
Two centuries ago there was a prescription for scurvy containing "stercoris taurini et anserini par, quantitas trium magnarum nucum," of the hell-broth containing which "guoties-cumque sitit oeger, large bibit. [3]
Had the Duke then got his release on the ground that they were of kin--a kinship which, even to be authentic, must go back seven centuries for proof? [11]
It has been the way of the Romany since the time of Timur Beg and centuries beyond Timur, so it is told. [11]
Interesting inscriptions of the time of Rameses the Great, (14 centuries B. C.) referring to the gold-mines, have been found, one at Radesich, the other at Kubnn, and have been published and deciphered in Europe. [10]
It was of the same Psalms, but the congregation chanted them in a wild and weird tone and manner, as wailing and barbarous to modern ears as any Highland devotional outburst of two centuries ago. [4]
For fifteen centuries, the recognition of this authority and power has been altogether exceptional. [5]
The inhabitants of the oasis had for centuries been subject to the Pharaohs, and paid them tribute; and among the rights granted to them in return, no Egyptian soldier might cross their border and territory without their permission. [10]
According to history, the monks of this place two centuries before had been worldly minded enough to want to wash. [5]
Her battle-flags bear the mold and the dust of centuries, her marts are deserted, she has shrunken far within her crumbling walls, and her great population has diminished to twenty thousand souls. [5]
Still moving through the gloom of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre we came to a small chapel, hewn out of the rock--a place which has been known as "The Prison of Our Lord" for many centuries. [5]
At last, all the figures merged into one, and she had the face--ah, he had seen it centuries ago!--of Madame Chalice. [11]
These buildings formed the citadel, round the threefold walls of which, many centuries before, King Meles had carried a lion in order to render them impregnable. [10]
It exists on the cistern of my father's house at Corinth, and was executed many centuries since by a great artist of the Peloponnesus. [10]
Every thing about the church is marble, and all from the same quarry; it was bequeathed to the Archbishopric for this purpose centuries ago. [5]
The plates of the bones in Vesalius, three centuries old, are still masterpieces of accuracy, as of art. [3]
It was in the age of Pericles, of Socrates, of Plato, of Phidias, that Hippocrates gave to medical knowledge the form which it retained for twenty centuries. [3]
Let us remember that this was centuries before the Crucifixion? [5]
We hear sometimes that the Turk has been merely camping for four centuries in Europe. [4]
And I think that the Great Idea, great as it was, would have enjoyed but a brief activity, and would then have gone to sleep again for some more centuries, but for the perpetuating impulse it got from that organized and tremendous force. [5]
Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries. [5]
The butterflies have taken the places of the queens of fashion and beauty of eighteen centuries ago, and the lizards sun themselves in the sacred seat of the Emperor. [5]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
Yet there was something between them which had its authority over their lives, overcoming even that maiden modesty which was in contrast to the bold, physical thing she had done in running the Carillon Rapids those centuries ago when she was young and glad-wistfully glad. [11]
In Spain alone some of the best men--those who doubted and questioned, and without doubting there can be no progress--were eliminated during three centuries at the rate of a thousand a year. [1]
If I had six centuries what good would it do? [5]
Good-by; we probably sha'n't see you in this region for a thousand centuries or so. [5]
He sleepeth now--and shall sleep thirteen centuries. [5]
And Germany started several centuries too late. [9]
The house of Serapis was a whole world in little, and centuries had enriched it with wealth, beauty, and the noblest treasures of art and learning. [10]
He has been seen standing near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on many a starlight night, for he has cherished an idea for many centuries that if he could only enter there, he could rest. [5]
And herein, it seems to me, lies the broad distinction between most of the English and French literature of the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. [4]
Would it not seem as though Fate desired to help us to bring to our blessed Nile the offering which for so many centuries has been withheld? [10]
And now we see what history will be talking of five centuries hence: a uniformed and helmeted battalion of bronzed and stalwart men marching in double file down the floor of the House--a free parliament profaned by an invasion of brute force! [5]
St. Paul, you say, put us in our proper place some twenty centuries ago, and we are to remain there for all time. [9]
After a time, say a few centuries of experience, they had their doll all spotted over with safe places for sticking in the needles. [6]
Leaning against a rock not far away, Valmond watched the tiny man with the long arms throw up the soft, good-smelling earth, enriched by centuries of dead leaves and flowers. [11]
Just beyond are Richmond Hill and Hampton Court, and five or six centuries of tradition and history and romance. [4]
Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. [2]
I have before referred to the fall of the spire of Tewkesbury Abbey church, three centuries earlier. [6]
For the like reasons Spain had to banish him four hundred years ago, and Austria about a couple of centuries later. [5]
If we can reach across the centuries, why, good-night and goodbye to you. [11]
Yet in this quiet wood so near to the centuries that were before Adam was, she looked like a spirit of comedy listening till the Spirit of the Wood should break the silence. [11]
And a large proportion of the descendants of those who have governed England for centuries are apparently imbued with the spirit of this adventure, even though it may spell the end of their exclusive rule. [9]
There in the Promised Land many centuries later was born, in Bethlehem, another Jehoshua who bestowed on all mankind what the son of Nun had vainly sought for the Hebrew nation. [10]
But I can promise you the gratitude of the best and noblest who now live or who will live in centuries to come--for that you are the mother of Polykarp! [10]
All his inherent prejudice, the hereditary predisposition of centuries, the ingrain hatred of atheism, were alive in him, hardening his mind against the man before him. [11]
Their horse-shaped heads poured water into a vast basin, which, in the lapse of centuries, had grown full of a green and filmy vegetation. [10]
It was hard, polished, and full of pockets worn by centuries of eddying rain-water. [13]
Why the Asiatic plague that nearly depopulated London a couple of centuries ago. [5]
If that primitive physician, Chiron, M. D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule. [6]
Even now political passion is almost as ready to flame forth, either in ardent affection or enthusiastic hatred, as if two centuries and a half had not elapsed since his death. [6]
Nineteen centuries have passed since the one that gave us Him who died on the cross, and how far we are still from a perfect realization of this noblest of all the emotions of the heart and spirit! [10]
As the Council, owing to the dead state of its members for now three centuries, was not in session, we made no long tarry. [4]
We were driving over the spot where, eighteen centuries ago, the Roman fleet used to ride at anchor. [4]
They were worn out with centuries of catering to themselves. [9]
They talked about our own Northern people as the English in the last centuries used to talk about the French,--Goldsmith's old soldier, it may be remembered, called one Englishman good for five of them. [6]
I feel that our fetish is safe for three centuries yet. [5]
Yet this small, originally infertile island has been for two centuries, and is today, the most vital influence on the globe. [4]
When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men--but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly small portion of it is his. [5]
One barbarian, in one hour can destroy what it has taken the sublimest souls years, centuries, to create. [10]
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]
And the second of those Fourths of July was not born, until four centuries later, in, Charles the First's time, in the Bill of Rights, and that is ours, that is part of our liberties. [5]
There are hundreds of these, and their dates stretch back through many centuries. [5]
The white city of the Mellahah, resurrected for a moment out of the dead centuries, will have disappeared again and left no sign. [5]
From the treatment of the great astronomer who was visited with the punishment of other heretics by the ecclesiastical authorities of a Catholic country some centuries since, there is no very direct inference to be drawn to the medical profession of the present time. [3]
They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. [5]
In certain campaigns of past centuries, and even of this, it has been hero-worship that impelled the rank and file rather than any high sympathy with the cause they were striving for. [9]
The first Fourth of July in that noble genealogy dates back seven centuries lacking eight years. [5]
Twenty centuries from now New York will still be New York, still a vast city, and the most notable object in it will still be the tomb and monument of General Grant. [5]
And that was not so very long ago, for Thebes, in the splendid streets of which Homer wandered and sang to the kings when Memphis, whose ruins are older than history, was its younger rival, was twelve centuries old when Paris ran away with Helen. [4]
Thirty centuries do not seem to have made any very great difference in the extreme limits of life. [6]

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