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Sentences starting with generations

Generations of Puritan Vanes (whose descendant alone had harassed poor Sarah Austere) were in his blood; and there they hung in the long gallery of Time, mutely but sternly forbidding when he raised his hand to the stem. [9]
Generations which had practised self-restraint were strong in her--generations accustomed, too, to thinking out, so far as in them lay, the logical consequences of their acts; generations ashamed of these very instants when nature has chosen to take command. [9]
Generations ago there had probably been a conference of the two branches of the family, and the clerk had inadvertently locked the one box within the other. [11]
Generations of fishermen had looked upon the yellowish-red limestone of the Perce Rock with a valorous eye, but it would seem that not even the tiny clinging hoof of a chamois or wild goat might find a foothold upon the straight sides of it. [11]
Generations of unbridled emotion, of license of the fields and the covert showed in his unguarded features. [11]
Generations of searchers after immortality have chiseled their names in the rock platform, and one who sits there now falls to musing on the vanity of human nature and the transitoriness of fashion. [4]

Sentences ending with generations

We have done with the lusus naturae of earlier generations. [6]
As far as we can judge, a recurrent period, if approximately of the right duration for any process or function, would not, when once gained, be liable to change; consequently it might be thus transmitted through almost any number of generations. [1]
From their lofty vantage-ground the giants Gog and Magog, the ancient guardians of the city, contemplated the spectacle below them with eyes grown familiar to it in forgotten generations. [5]
From time to time some small organ which had escaped earlier observers has been pointed out,--such parts as the tensor tarsi, the otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies; but some of our best anatomical works are those which have been classic for many generations. [3]
They came to the wide entrance of the Park, so wisely preserved as a breathing place for future generations. [9]
He had for the moment redeemed the snobbishness of two generations. [11]
With respect to the causes of variability, we are in all cases very ignorant; but we can see that in man as in the lower animals, they stand in some relation to the conditions to which each species has been exposed, during several generations. [1]
He had sold that night, for a mess of pottage, the friendship and respect of three generations. [9]
Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? [5]
We shall have so saved it that the succeeding millions of free happy people the world over shall rise up and call us blessed to the latest generations. [7]

Sentences containing generations two or more times

This sombre oaken wall had been handed down through four generations from the man's great-grandfather: the breath of generations had steeped it in human association. [11]
It got hotter and hotter, and broke up all the friendships for three hundred yards around friendships that had lasted for generations and generations. [5]

More example sentences with the word generations in them

It is polished with the kisses of many generations of worshiping pilgrims. [5]
It is one with the generations of noblesse and honour and virtue. [11]
The long windows, with the curtains drawn in the deep, panelled arches; the carved white mantelpiece; the glint of silver on' the sideboard, with its wine-cooler underneath,--these, spoke of generations of respectability and achievement. [9]
Here am I, with all my blood for generations Saxon, and yet I feel French. [11]
The pride and wilfulness of generations was indeed in his handsome face. [9]
There is a whole family connection in New England, and that a very famous one, to many of whose members, in different generations, all the products of the dairy are the subjects of a congenital antipathy. [6]
And virgin valleys, where future generations were to be born, spread out and narrowed again,--valleys with a deep carpet of cane and grass, where the deer and elk and bear fed unmolested. [9]
However, in Normandy, when he read the names on the tombstones and saw the records in the baptismal register of other Jean Jacques Barbilles, who had come and gone generations before, his self-respect was somewhat restored. [11]
The old house was fat with the deposits of rich generations which had gone before. [6]
Now the hour was approaching when she would be obliged to confess to him what she still strove to deem a peerless favour of Fate, for which future generations would envy her. [10]
One thing only was a pang to his vanity: No succeeding generations would preserve the memory of his heroic struggle and death for the cause of the gods. [10]
He is the ward of the generations that have grown up since he was in the vigor of maturity. [6]
One may rest under the Poultry Cross, where twenty or thirty generations have rested before him. [6]
The knees of twenty generations had worn the pavement; their feet had hollowed the steps; their shoulders had smoothed the columns. [6]
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]
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]
Benjamin, in addition to his emigrant's leather box, brought with him some of that pigment that was to dye the locality for generations a deep blue. [9]
It is difficult to attain this, and theory says that it takes three generations for a man to separate himself thus from his display. [4]
In the mean time, the great stronghold of intellectual conservatism, traditional belief, has been assailed by facts which would have been indicted as blasphemy but a few generations ago. [3]
Only Nancy's luxury, though lavish, was never vulgar, and her house when completed had rather marvellously the fine distinction of some old London mansion filled with the best that generations could contribute. [9]
What man of those who, soberly, had put his hand to the Paper which declared the opportunities of generations to come, could measure the Force which he had helped to set in motion. [9]
I do not think any of us would like to turn out the possessor of a fine estate enjoyed for two or three generations on the faith of unquestioned ownership by making use of some old forgotten instrument, which accident had thrown in our way. [6]
The only world they knew was this cool room, whose oak floors were browned by the slow searching stains of Time, and darkened by the footsteps of six generations that had come and gone through the old house. [11]
From these observations, there can, I think, be no doubt that residence during many generations at a great elevation tends, both directly and indirectly, to induce inherited modifications in the proportions of the body. [1]
Then he brought the world-renowned Turkish coffee that poets have sung so rapturously for many generations, and I seized upon it as the last hope that was left of my old dreams of Eastern luxury. [5]
He well deserves the thanks of future generations for the uncompromising fight he made against such men and such methods. [9]
For generations have the Rys of all the Rys been like the trees that bend only to the whirlwind; and when they speak there is no more to be said. [11]
We know what the prevailing--we do not mean universal--spirit and temper of those people have been for generations, and what they are like to be after a long and bitter warfare. [6]
It was in the heart of the English power; its population had been under English dominion so many generations that they were hardly French now, save in language. [5]
He called in the coinage of many generations, and reissued it purified and unalloyed, stamped in his own mint. [4]
The Head of the Apollinean Institute delivered himself of these judicious sentiments in that peculiar acid, penetrating tone, thickened with a nasal twang, which not rarely becomes hereditary after three or four generations raised upon east winds, salt fish, and large, white-bellied, pickled cucumbers. [6]
We only know that whereas they did not whistle with approval, now they do; the prejudice of generations gradually melts away. [4]
It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. [5]
A week before that fifteen minutes of calm reflection would have enabled that man to contrive some last words that would have been a credit to himself and a comfort to his family for generations to come. [5]
Seven generations of stern life and thought had their focus here in him,--from Oliver Cromwell to John Brown. [9]
Along its banks sprang up in succession the generations of man. [4]
I wonder if, somewhere, generations back, there was a pirate or a gipsy in our family. [11]
They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually that the Cambridge Saturnalia were replaced by the decencies and solemnities of the present sober anniversary. [6]
Its quite plain significance--to any but those thugs (I do not use the term unkindly) is, that Shakespeare had no prominence while he lived, and none until he had been dead two or three generations. [5]
The sages who served the Pharaohs in the gray dawn of time succeeded in fathoming the mystery of these names given to the everlasting ones at their birth, and their wisdom has come down to him through the generations as a priceless secret. [10]
It is the same Tennessee land that had "millions in it" for Colonel Sellers--the land that would become, as Orion Clemens long afterward phrased it, "the worry of three generations. [5]
But the vast ruin will still stand for ages, to shame the puny labors of these modern generations of men. [5]
Here preached the Reverend Pierrepont Honeywood, D. D., successor, after a number of generations, to the office and the parsonage of the Reverend Didymus Bean, before mentioned, but not suspected of any of his alleged heresies. [6]
And I always retorted that not to be able to show four generations of American-Colonial-Dutch Peddler- and-Salt-Cod-McAllister-Nobility might be endurable, but to have to confess such an origin--pfew-few! [5]
She was a result of generations of training in the unexamined and unassailed belief that the law which permitted her to kill a subject when she chose was a perfectly right and righteous one. [5]
It was not really the first attempt at handling a theme belonging to past generations, because I had written for Good Words, about the year 1890, a short novel which I called The Chief Factor, a tale of the Hudson's Bay Company. [11]
So again the raisers of fancy animals certainly have admired for many generations and still admire the same breeds; they earnestly desire slight changes, which are considered as improvements, but any great or sudden change is looked at as the greatest blemish. [1]
I like family pride as well as my neighbors, and respect the high-born fellow-citizen whose progenitors have not worked in their shirt-sleeves for the last two generations full as much as I ought to. [6]
That was shown pretty well in New England two or three generations ago. [6]
From thence his power extended over the whole Nile-valley, and he devoted himself to his charge with so much zeal, fidelity, justice, and prudence, that his name was remembered with veneration and affection by generations long after. [10]
I made a pledge to be no more a Romany and I will keep it; yet you and all Romany people are dear to me because through long generations the Druses have been of you. [11]
The learning, the personal character, the sacredness of their office, tended, to give the New England clergy of past generations a kind of aristocratic dignity, a personal grandeur, much more felt in the days when class distinctions were recognized less unwillingly than at present. [6]
The Arbusers were people of consequence in their day, with a certain social prestige; in fact, the excellent ladies were two generations removed from successful mercantile life, which in the remote prospective took on an old-family solidity. [4]
The generations have passed away, and the Angel of Equity hath a smiling pity as she scans the scales and the weighing of the Past. [11]
Wherever they ferret out a lost locality made holy by some Scriptural event, they straightway build a massive--almost imperishable--church there, and preserve the memory of that locality for the gratification of future generations. [5]
How far is our popular education, which we have now enjoyed for two full generations, responsible for this state of mind? [4]
Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts--and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five- sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained. [1]
Only after two or three generations can its effects upon the character of a great people be measured: Observations differ, and testimony is difficult to obtain. [4]
The Winthrops, to one of whom Dr. Stafford's directions were addressed, were the medical as well as the political advisers of their fellow-citizens for three or four successive generations. [3]
We lunched at one of the little inns that for generations have been tucked away in the narrow streets of provincial towns; this time a Cheval Blanc, with an unimposing front and a blaze of sunshine in its heart. [9]
There is an old belief in our family that the spirit of one who died many generations ago watches over some of her descendants. [6]
That the effect of this has been ruinous in English practice I cannot doubt, and that in this country the standard of practice was in former generations lowered through the same agency is not unlikely. [3]
All the generations of the wood and road, the combe and the river, the quarry and the secluded boscage were in her look. [11]
Within the seat of the throne is enclosed a rough flat rock--the stone of Scone--which many generations of Scottish kings sat on to be crowned, and so it in time became holy enough to answer a like purpose for English monarchs. [5]
A Yankee Shades of the Pilgrim fathers, of seven, generations of Bumpuses! [9]
In fact, most of the men in France were soldiers, when you came to that; for the wars had lasted generations now. [5]
The prominent nose of the intellectual New-Englander is evidence of the constant linguistic exercise of the organ for generations. [4]
In the quietness of the face there was that strain of the Quaker, descending to her through three generations, yet enlivened by a mind of impulse and genius. [11]
That shameful flight of the cooing dove after his mate, at which generations yet unborn will point in mockery! [10]
The vital functions of such animals, living under these conditions for many generations, can hardly fail to run their course in regular weekly periods. [1]
Thanks to generations of self-denial by the Vanes of Camden Street, Mr. Hilary Vane might live indefinitely, might even recover, partially; but at present he was condemned to remain, with his memories, in the great canopied bed. [9]
Her nose was of patrician straightness, and the curves of her mouth came from generations of proud ancestors. [9]
By this standard of measurement, this nation, two or three generations ago, consisted of mere cripples, paralytics, dead men, as compared with the men of to-day. [5]
By the might of generations she was one thing, and he another. [9]
The medical history of eight generations, told in an hour, must be in many parts a mere outline. [3]
But he came of a stock which had for generations thrust its roots into the crevices of granite, and was not easily killed by steam-engines. [9]
This present flood of 1882 Will doubtless be celebrated in the river's history for several generations before a deluge of like magnitude shall be seen. [5]
Good food is not only more abundant and more widely distributed than it was two generations ago, but it is to be had in immeasurably greater variety. [4]
The Graingers did not live in one, but in a garden that existed before the palaces were, and one that the palace owners could not copy: a garden that three generations of Graingers, somewhat assisted by a remarkable climate, had made with loving care. [9]
By her law none may be canonized until he hath lain dead four generations. [5]
Miriam greeted the new arrivals with the utmost warmth, and the men who, representing three generations, stood before her, presented a picture on which the eyes of any well-disposed person could not fail to rest with pleasure. [10]
Our future generations must still tower proudly above the common herd in every respect; I want no plaything for a wife, but a woman, such as you yourself were in youth--tall, dignified and handsome. [10]
They did not move with the stream-they lived their lives and sank away; and always below them new generations appeared, to play their brief parts in what is called history--the sequence of human actions. [4]
Dr. Rolle ('Der Mensch, seine Abstammung,' etc., 1865, s. 99) states, on the authority of Khanikof, that the greater number of German families settled in Georgia, have acquired in the course of two generations dark hair and eyes. [1]
As every man may count two grandfathers, four great-grandfathers, eight great-great-grandfathers, and so on, a few generations give him a good chance for selection. [6]
Sudden and strongly marked variations are rare; it is also doubtful whether if beneficial they would often be preserved through selection and transmitted to succeeding generations. [1]
The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations. [6]
How have they managed to stand it all these generations? [5]
His, too, must live on, and with it his name, cursed and hated to the latest generations of men. [10]
They blast the lineage of him or her who utters them, for generations up and down. [6]
Then conviction came like a revelation--the superstitions of a hundred generations passed from before the people like a cloud, and a shout went up, "the tabu is broken! [5]
We are therefore led to enquire whether slight individual differences, to which man is eminently liable, may not have been preserved and augmented during a long series of generations through natural selection. [1]
Unfortunately, our copy lacks the colouring; and the dress of the original, which shows the whole figure, confirms the experience of the error committed in faithfully reproducing the fashion of the day in portraits intended for future generations. [10]
The young man knows his patient, but the old man knows also his patient's family, dead and alive, up and down for generations. [3]
For several generations it had been dwelt in by descendants of the same name, but soon after the Revolution it passed by marriage into the hands of the Venners, by whom it had ever since been held and tenanted. [6]
He has used it for two generations. [5]
No, my complexion is the patient art of eight generations. [5]
Sir Walter Scott is probably responsible for the Capitol building; for it is not conceivable that this little sham castle would ever have been built if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances. [5]
The mental state involving utter confusion of different generations in a person yet capable of forming a correct judgment on other matters, is almost a direct transcript from nature. [6]
You make its intent this, you make it that, but nothing can alter the law, and what has been done in its name for generations. [11]

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