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Sentences starting with generation

Generation after generation would labour with unflagging zeal until the art sculptured fragment of the new Cathedral--the new Cathedral of Democracy --pointed upward toward the blue vault of heaven. [9]
Generation after generation is content with the same simple life. [4]

Sentences ending with generation

Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
I stepped ashore with the feeling of one who returns out of a dead-and-gone generation. [5]
Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
I was a trespasser on the domain belonging to another generation. [6]
He did not treat himself like an earl, whatever consciousness he may have had that his prospective rank made it safe for him to flirt with the various forms of equality abroad in this generation. [4]
When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B. Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation. [5]
Our strife pertains to ourselves--to the passing generations of men --and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. [7]
But it seems to me that in walking the streets of London and Paris I shall revert to my student days, and appear to myself like a relic of a former generation. [6]
But this seems to me a misunderstanding of the spirit of this generation. [4]
The anxiety was to invent and launch something that should float on to the generations to come, and carry the name of the builder and the fame of his generation. [4]

Short sentences using generation

Our generation is most ingenious. [4]
They're a very illusory generation. [8]

Sentences containing generation two or more times

When the scoundrel whom she had called husband, and for whom her contempt had become too deep for hate, sneeringly assailed her family as having been fed from generation to generation from the corn-bin of the Museum, she bit her lips. [10]
What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
Austen permitted himself to dwell, as he descended the mountain in the gathering darkness, upon the fancy of the springing of a generation of ideals from a generation of commerce which boded well for the Republic. [9]
In the mean time, while medical theories are coming in and going out, there is a set of sensible men who are never run away with by them, but practise their art sagaciously and faithfully in much the same way from generation to generation. [3]
This is not the only hereditary fraud (if fraud it is--which I have before repeatedly remarked is not proven) that is being quietly handed down from generation to generation of fathers and sons, through the persecuted Treasury of the United States. [5]
And they continue the enjoyment of those ill-gotten gains generation after generation forever, for they never die. [5]
It had held the clothes and the books and the papers of generation after generation. [6]
It is true that the best heritage of generation from generation is the character of great men; but we always owe its transmission to the poet and the writer. [4]
This is the stamp of all enduring work; this is what appeals to the universal understanding from generation to generation. [4]
The scholar is said to be the torch-bearer, transmitting the increasing light from generation to generation, so that the feet of all, the humblest and the loveliest, may walk in the radiance and not stumble. [4]

More example sentences with the word generation in them

And these people would shortly understand, if they did not now understand, that Hugh had come back voluntarily and from a sense of duty to assume the burdens and responsibilities that so many of his generation and class had shirked. [9]
And it was wonderful to see what these new ingenuities did for a time, and how each generation was deceived into the belief that its products would sail on forever. [4]
Was it not wonderful that for more than thirty years, over a generation, the choicest portion of them had remained in one family, untouched, as if, separated for some great use! [5]
A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
A later generation will sit in judgment upon the evidence more calmly than our own. [6]
The next generation will be pretty much what they choose to make it; and what are they doing for the elevation of young men? [4]
And no one who has not experienced that environment can have any conception of the pressure it exerted to stifle originality, to thrust the new generation into its religious and commercial moulds. [9]
Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. [6]
The generation to which you, who are just entering the profession, belong, will make a vast stride forward, as I believe, in the direction of treatment by natural rather than violent agencies. [3]
The modern world, which was our generation, would seem to be cut off from all that preceded it as with a descending knife. [9]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
The soft-hearted tyrant was really sorry for the faithful old servant he had bought a generation since for the home to which he had brought his fair young wife, and he began to speak kindly to her, as he had previously done to the birds. [10]
The fourth generation was of fair average endowment. [3]
Everything in camp was drenched, the camp-fire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain. [5]
All this new vision of mine was for him, for the coming generation, the soil in which it must be sown, the Americans of the future. [9]
War is a very old story, but it is a new one to this generation of Americans. [6]
I had no trouble in convincing mine host that I was the lad eulogized in the scrawls, and he put hand on the very sheet which announced my birth, nineteen years since,--the fourth generation of Carvels Ivie had known. [9]
When you return to your homes, rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. [7]
Because he belongs to the generation that fights this war. [9]
I've been true to my convictions,--you, who belong to the new generation, must be true to yours. [9]
Nature, who seems to be fond of trios, has given us three dogmatists, all of whom greatly interested their own generation, and whose personality, especially in the case of the first and the last of the trio, still interests us,--Johnson, Coleridge, and Carlyle. [6]
Up to the time of the living generation of observers, Nature had kept over all her inner workshops the forbidding inscription, No Admittance! [3]
The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. [7]
I feel that this study of Irving as a man of letters would be incomplete, especially for the young readers of this generation, if it did not contain some more extended citations from those works upon which we have formed our estimate of his quality. [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]
And how in this generation is he equipping himself for the future? [4]
One last revolting thing alone remains to be done--the murder of the King; then this France that we have loved will have no name and no place in our generation. [11]
Never before were there such business men as this generation can show--Napoleons of finance, Alexanders of adventure, Shakespeares of speculation, Porsons of accumulation. [4]
You ask what there is for you--I'll tell you,--the new generation. [9]
Samuel Checkley, Junior, the two ministers mentioned above, both honored in their day and generation. [6]
The statesman or the poet who launches out unmindful of these conditions will be likely to come to grief in her generation. [4]
To our tourists the place was saturated with his presence, but the new generation cares more for its smart prosperity than for all his romance. [4]
The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness. [4]
Irving has shared the neglect of the writers of his generation. [4]
Let us hope the humors of it will last another generation. [4]
He was also the homoeopathist of his day, the Elisha Perkins (metallic tractors) of his generation. [6]
Now mark how the great plague came on the generation of drugging doctors, and in what form it fell. [6]
The title of the governor has been, for a generation or two, "Magistrate and Chief Ruler, in subordination to her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. [5]
In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees. [2]
They can elevate the entire present generation of young men, if they give their minds to it, to care for the intellectual pursuits they care for. [4]
In addition to the difference in temperament, Hilary Vane belonged to one generation and Austen to another. [9]
And especially did the crafts built in imitation of something that had floated down from a previous generation come to quick disaster. [4]
It shows also that this is not a dead issue in our community, as some of the younger generation seem to think. [6]
Dr. Hooker believes that the typhus syncopatia of a preceding generation in New England "was often in fact a brandy and opium disease. [3]
He had forgotten that sovereign dukes must make sure their succession even unto the third and fourth generation. [11]
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. [4]
Indeed, I saw that a large part of the commerce of this river was, in fact, the old hulks and stranded wrecks that each generation had set afloat again. [4]
It was thinly tenanted as I remember it, but now populous with the silent immigrants of more than a whole generation. [6]
He had the Tasmanian's spirit and endurance, and a notable share of military science besides; and so he rose against the oppressor, did this gallant "fanatic," and started a war that was not brought to a definite end until more than a generation had sped. [5]
I am not sure but the former generation preached a good deal, but it had great practice in fireside talk, and must have talked well. [4]
Thus the bias strengthens with each generation, until, as we find, families grow to have habitually more sons than daughters. [1]
We hear wonderful stories of the bright generation that sat about the wide fireplaces of New England. [4]
A benevolent old soul, I am sure, who in a New England village would be universally called "Aunty," and would lay all the rising generation under obligation to her for doughnuts and sweet-cake. [4]
Every generation dissolves something new and precipitates something once held in solution from that great storehouse of temporary and permanent truths. [6]
Every year or so somebody was shot, on one side or the other; and as fast as one generation was laid out, their sons took up the feud and kept it a-going. [5]
The quarrel was so petty, and so easy of mending, that you of this generation may wonder why it was allowed to run. [9]
But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner--or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it--would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is. [5]
No amount of science will entirely change their emotional nature; and besides, with all our science, I don't see that the supernatural has any less hold on this generation than on the former. [4]
The next generation rose in physical development, and reached eighty years of age and more in some of its members. [3]
And how I repent me, that there have been times when I lost faith and said, the blessing he stored up for us a tedious generation ago was but a long-drawn curse, a blight upon us all. [5]
Where such a regular and well-balanced life from generation to generation, without instruction or precept? [10]
Among the lesser regrets that mingle with graver sorrows for the friends of an earlier generation we have lost, are our omissions to ask them so many questions they could have answered easily enough, and would have been pleased to be asked. [6]
Each also had recognised in the other qualities of force and knowledge having their generation in experiences which had become individuality, subterranean and acute, under a cold surface. [11]
Susy was a rare creature; the rarest that has been reared in Hartford in this generation. [5]
It is a pretty way enough of telling one that he belongs to a past generation, but it does tell him that not over-pleasing fact. [6]
Said he had port in bottles that were swathed in stratified cobwebs, every stratum representing a generation. [5]
But in the place of "Pratt's Garden" was an open park, and the old house where Robert Morris held his court in a former generation was changing to a public restaurant. [6]
In another generation people would come long distances to see the valley where Alice lived, and her spirit would pervade it. [4]
All the fashionable people there to-night were like the Dryfooses a generation or two ago. [8]
Verily, one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh. [9]
This generation has passed on to other things. [4]
A long time passed and generation after generation of the descendants of the worthy Sir Wendelin followed one another. [10]
I've been in Parliament a generation or so, and I've never known an amateur more daring and skilful. [11]
After that, the pandemonium left the dining-room, to spread itself over the spacious house from the basement to the great playroom in the attic, where the dolls and blocks and hobby-horses of the parental generation stoically awaited the new. [9]
There has come over this country within the last generation, as everybody knows, a great wave of condemnation of pie. [4]
In a generation or two it may be laid aside as no longer necessary, or men may be compelled to resort to it to preserve their supremacy. [4]
And nobody to open the book where it stands written but one poor old man--in this generation, at least--in this generation! [6]
James Jackson not only educated a whole generation by his lessons of wisdom, but bequeathed some of the most valuable results of his experience to those who came after him, in a series of letters singularly pleasant and kindly as well as instructive. [3]
I belong to one generation, and they to another. [9]
I counted up once, just to tease father--he's the seventh generation from Ebenezer Bumpus, who came to Dolton. [9]
The silver fruitdish, once (it was said) the property of the Baron of Beaugard, which each generation of Barbilles had displayed with as much ceremony as though it was a chalice given by the Pope, went to Virginie Poucette. [11]
Old theories, and old men who cling to them, must take themselves out of the way as the new generation with its fresh thoughts and altered habits of mind comes forward to take the place of that which is dying out. [6]
In the case of Walter Scott, although there is already visible a reaction against a reaction, he is not, at least in America, read by this generation as he was by the last. [4]
It was one of those compensating moments, for him, when his tribulations vanished; and the tributes of the younger generation were those to which his heart most freely responded. [9]
In the midst of this mournful spot was a decayed and aged little "frame" house with but one room, one window, and no ceiling--it had been a smoke-house a generation before. [5]
The physical character of the next generation rises in consequence. [6]
What Saint Louisan of the last generation does not remember Uhrig's Cave? [9]
The vast width of the country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, was stirred with politics: a better era was coming, the pulse of the nation beating with renewed life; a stronger generation was arising to take the Republic into its own hands. [9]
The maternal gift of song would certainly descend to him, and perhaps it was allotted to the Emperor's son to amaze his generation by the presence of hero and singer in one person, like a second King David. [10]
A whole generation of men Smiled in the joy of his wit. [5]
The half-mystical spirit of his Uncle Benn had flowed on to another generation through the filter of a woman's sad soul. [11]
It reminded her of her descent; it kept alive the desire to live over the joys and excitements of a bygone generation. [6]
The new generation of Fisher heirs then came forward and put in a bill for damages. [5]
Distinguished foreigners, peers of England, churchmen, and men renowned in literature: famous American statesmen, scientists, and names that represented more than one generation of wealth and achievement--all were here. [9]
The present generation of alligators know them as easy as a burglar knows a roundsman; when they see one coming, they break camp and go for the woods. [5]
In the course of a generation, more or less, physicians themselves are liable to get tired of a practice which has so little effect upon the average movement of vital decomposition. [3]
It is an object-lesson to the rising generation. [5]
The generation that now is should not be deprived of the best in the last generation. [4]
But he remains not the less one of the really interesting men of his generation, a man about whom we wish to know all that we have a right to know. [6]
But I must not forget that a new generation of readers has come into being since I have been writing for the public, and that a new generation of aspiring and brilliant authors has grown into general recognition. [6]

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