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Sentences starting with modern

Modern history replying to these questions says: you want to know what this movement means, what caused it, and what force produced these events? [2]
Modern history, in theory, rejects both these principles. [2]
Modern civilization offers no such test to the temper and to personal appearance as this early preparation to meet the inspection of society after a night in the stuffy and luxuriously upholstered tombs of a sleeping-car. [4]
Modern research into Hellenic and Asiatic life has given a new meaning to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and greatly enhanced our enjoyment of them. [4]
Modern wedding gowns are not treasured so long. [10]
Modern scholars are agreed that the word Olmah which Isaiah uses does not mean virgin, but young woman. [9]
Modern war involves a spy system, and a friendly telephone company is not to be despised. [9]

Sentences ending with modern

The dead is not all ancient, the live is not all modern. [3]
This present house is modern. [5]
The fine new homes are noble and beautiful and modern. [5]
We regard the formulated doctrine as modern. [4]
After pausing to contemplate a Millet on the stair landing, they came at last to the huge, silent gallery, where the soft but adequate light fell upon many masterpieces, ancient and modern. [9]
The parish house, built in the, early nineties, had its gymnasium hall and class and reading rooms, but was not what in these rapidly moving times would be called modern. [9]
It is history--and authentic; and surely, there is nothing greater, nothing more reverence-compelling in the history of any country, ancient or modern. [5]

Short sentences using modern

Such is modern war! [9]
The foundation of modern society. [5]
Is that a modern idea? [4]
The modern designation is Mugwump. [5]
Take a modern instance. [4]

Sentences containing modern two or more times

That was England, the English power, the English civilization, the modern civilization--with the quiet elegancies and quiet colors and quiet tastes and quiet dignity that are the outcome of the modern cultivation. [5]
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]
Will it survive rapid transit and bridge and Woman's Rights, the modern novel and modern drama, automobiles, flying machines, and intelligence offices; hotel, apartment, and suburban life, or four homes, or none at all? [9]
The modern conditions must be producing a modern type. [8]
Poise in a modern woman, leading a modern life. [9]
It was a modern Aladdin's palace: and, like everything else modern, much more wonderful than the original. [9]
The south wind is full of longing and unrest, of effeminate suggestions of luxurious ease, and perhaps we might say of modern poetry,--at any rate, modern poetry needs a change of air. [4]
Perhaps the most encouraging omen of the day is the fact that many of our modern employers, and even our modern financiers and bankers seem to be recognizing this truth, to be growing aware of the danger to civilization of its continued suppression. [9]
It was little disturbed by the intellectual and ethical agitation of modern England or of modern New England. [4]
And the strife between them was on a scale never known in the world before, a strife with modern arms and modern methods and modern brains, in which there was no mercy. [9]

More example sentences with the word modern in them

It has become-if you will permit me to continue to put my similes into slang--the modern band wagon. [9]
If I told you I would be reasonable--" "I don't believe in miracles," she said, recovering a little; "at least in modern ones. [9]
I do hope you have not dropped the classics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical. [4]
For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace. [11]
One of the worries of modern life is the perplexity where to spend the summer. [4]
In the modern world, I can only think of the Pitts in England. [11]
Perhaps in the world of modern reforms this is not possible; but I intend now to cultivate only the standard things, and learn to talk knowingly of the rest. [4]
For him, the world had become awry; he abhorred divorce, and that this modern abomination had touched the house of Chiltern was a calamity that had shaken the very foundations of his soul. [9]
Limited trains are wonderful enough; but what shall be said of the modern mind, that travels faster than light? [9]
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury. [9]
It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
Asa Waring looked with a stern distaste upon certain aspects of modern life. [9]
And the Union will never be safe until the greatest crime of modern times is wiped out in blood. [9]
The modern world, which was our generation, would seem to be cut off from all that preceded it as with a descending knife. [9]
Book after book which he casually mentioned, as showing the drift of the age, and profoundly affecting modern thought, she knew only by name. [4]
Then we saw what the trouble was--at some time or other we had drifted down the wrong side of an island and followed a sluggish branch of the Rhone not frequented in modern times. [5]
At this time what impressed me most was the absurdity of my position looked at in the light of modern civilization and all my advantages and acquirements. [4]
Pindar's great odes were occasional poems, just as much as our Commencement and Phi Beta Kappa poems are, and yet they have come down among the most precious bequests of antiquity to modern times. [6]
The small window-panes were actually inclosed in the wood of the sashes instead of being stuck to them with putty, as in our modern windows. [6]
And then I went to see him afterwards, in the parish house--you remember?--after we had been reading modern criticism together, and he told me that the faith which had come down from the fathers was like an egg? [9]
In England as well as in France, as we have said, it was the period of the classic revival; but in England the energetic reality of the time was strong enough to break the classic fetters, and to use classic learning for modern purposes. [4]
Without reservoirs of wealth there would be no great universities, schools of science, museums, galleries of art, libraries, solid institutions of charity, and perhaps not the wide diffusion of culture which is the avowed aim of modern civilization. [4]
Her quality, as we know, was not wit: it was something as old as the world, as new as modern psychology. [9]
Experience is what we all need, and though love or love-making cannot be called a novelty, there is something quite fresh about the study of it in the modern spirit. [4]
The hygienic department was to be all that modern science could desire. [9]
And yet he was so informed with the modern spirit that he was not content, as a zealot formerly might have been, to snatch souls out of the evil that is in the world, but he strove to lessen the evil. [4]
Importunity with discretion was his motto, and he often vowed to the Cure that there was no other motto for the modern world. [11]
I hope it was genuine, for they cheated infamously in the matter of this concretion, which ought to come out of an animal's stomach, but the real history of which resembles what is sometimes told of modern sausages. [3]
The Manor Casimbault was destined to be an example of ancient dignity and modern bad taste. [11]
He wants a visible image to fix his thought, a scarabee or a crux ansata, or the modern symbols which are to our own time what these were to the ancient Egyptians. [6]
I selected a very modern and unusual type of man as the central figure of my story. [11]
In this modern version of ours, the fathers throng about another than Horatius after the session of that memorable morning. [9]
A person more versed in the modern world of affairs than the late rector of Bremerton would not have been so long in arriving at the answer to this riddle. [9]
The interest to us now in the observation of this phase of modern life is not in the least for purposes of satire or of reform. [4]
He spiced her up in his eulogy as if she had been the queen of a modern Pharaoh. [6]
The Knobs Industrial University would be a vast school of modern science and practice, worthy of a great nation. [5]
We did not understand why a country that admits our beef and grain and cheese should seem to seek protection against a literary product which is brought into competition with one of the great British staples, the modern novel. [4]
Note for an unabridged biography: the great man is discovered sitting quietly by the window, poring over a book on the modern science of road-building, some notes from which he is making for his first message. [9]
In the Levant, too, were seen the beginnings of commerce, of art, of letters, in the forms in which the modern world best knows them. [4]
There were men-killers, too, usually to be found in pairs, in startling costumes they had been persuaded were the latest Paris models,--imitations of French cocottes in Hampton, proof of the smallness of our modern world. [9]
I've come here to-night to see a modern Paladin, a real crusader: "'Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken. [11]
As the Custos told his news the governor's eyes were running along the line of busts of ancient and modern philosophers on the gilt brackets between the Doric pilasters. [11]
Except for the toad-powder and the peremptory drastics, one might have borne up against this herb doctoring as well as against some more modern styles of medication. [3]
Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery--the surplusage of raiment. [5]
You come nearer to the great fathers of modern medicine than some of you imagine. [3]
Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober? [5]
It is difficult to see how our modern life would go on as well as it does if there were not in our homes a good many such faithful souls. [4]
One has only to mark what sort of novels reach the largest sale and are most called for in the circulating libraries, to gauge pretty accurately the public taste, and to measure the influence of this taste upon modern production. [4]
We must try to imagine, too, the logical continuation of that triumph in the Baiae of our modern republic and empire, Newport. [9]
She brought home to him, as never before, a sense of the anomalistic position of the Church in these modern days, of its appallingly lessened weight even with its own members. [9]
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. [5]
We've tried not to be too serious in showing it, but we've felt that these modern business methods were getting into your system without your realizing it. [9]
In that old time it was a paradise for simplicity--it was a simple, simple life, cheap but comfortable, and full of sweetness, and there was nothing of this rage of modern civilization there at all. [5]
Rodney, inheriting the thrift of his ancestors, had pushed out from his home, adapting this thrift to the modern methods of turning it to account. [4]
The results of this teaching of religion in modern terms are already becoming apparent, and some persons are already beginning to see that the Creeds express certain elemental truths in frankly archaic language. [9]
At any rate, this modern notion of giving them their liberty is sheer folly. [9]
The result of this modern investigation has been to discredit much of the romance gathered about Smith and Pocahontas, and a good deal to reduce his heroic proportions. [4]
You have brought this business up to a modern footing, and made it as prosperous as any in the town. [9]
They did not think of fleeing from winter any more than from the summer solstice, and consequently they enjoyed a certain contentment of mind that is absent from modern life. [4]
Without boasting, I think I may say I am not afraid to stand before a modern French duelist, but as long as I keep in my right mind I will never consent to stand behind one again. [5]
There are some things that may not be discussed directly, and the conduct of life at a modern university--which is a reflection of life in the greater world--is one of these. [9]
The curriculum in these was that in colleges generally,--the classics, the higher mathematics, science, philosophy, the modern languages, and in some instances a certain technical instruction, which was being tried in some Northern colleges. [4]
Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. [4]
It is just there, in the very centre of our modern civilization, that one sees the crudest passions. [9]
On that day there happened to be talk, at dinner, about the speed of modern ships. [5]
In one of them Mr. Howells let fall some chance remarks on the tendency of modern fiction, without adequately developing his theory, which were largely dissented from in this country, and were like the uncorking of six vials in England. [4]
A few of their followers in our day seem to forget that our modern churches are heated by furnaces and supplied with gas. [4]
But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon. [2]
In him was the spiritual element asserting itself in a mediaeval form, in a struggle to mortify and deny the flesh and yet take part in modern life. [4]
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]
The boom of the saluting guns of Castel Nuovo is to us scarcely an echo of modern life. [4]
If proofs of the Resurrection and Ascension were demanded, let them be spiritual proofs, and there could be none more convincing than the life of the transformed Saul, who had given to the modern, western world the message of salvation . [9]
I denied myself the pleasure of introducing her character in one of my novels, for I felt that if I should succeed in limning it faithfully the modern reader would be justified in considering her an impossible figure for our days. [10]
Broca thus explains the otherwise inexplicable fact, that the mean capacity of the skull of the ancient Troglodytes of Lozere is greater than that of modern Frenchmen. [1]
It isn't exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it's oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,--a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike--very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
He belonged to the new order, which seems to have come in with modern journalism--that is, Bohemian in principle, but of the manners and apparel of the favored of fortune. [4]
She felt, indeed, the need of counsel, and knew not where to turn for it, --the modern need for other than supernatural sanctions. [9]
Consequently, everything in the nature of modern fashion and grandeur was a new and wonderful revelation to him. [5]
Its finest street, the Maximilian, built by the late king of that name, is of a novel and wholly modern style of architecture, not an imitation, though it may remind some of the new portions of Paris. [4]
Mark my words, the longer you remain one, the more steeped in selfishness you are likely to become in this modern and complex and sense-satisfying life which so many people lead. [9]
The perfectness of the landscape struck him; it was as if the picture had all grown there--not a suburban villa, not a modern cottage, not one tall chimney of a manufactory, but just the sweet common life. [11]
So persistent is the instinct of barbarism in our modern civilization. [4]
The article carried the implication that the modern, practical, American business man was the highest type as yet evolved by civilization: and Ditmar, referred to as "a wizard of the textile industry," was emphatically one who had earned the gratitude of the grand old Commonwealth. [9]
This question of the emancipation of labour began a hundred years ago, with the introduction of machinery and the rise of modern industry, and in this war it has come to a head. [9]
Indeed, but for the discovery of the capacities of the chrysanthemum, modern life would have experienced a fatal hitch in its development. [4]
They also desired the dearest food, and would have no meat from the butcher's but the most delicate, while their list of fruits, cakes, Gates, and outlandish confections is as long as that at any modern banquet. [4]
The conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears. [5]
There were, in the congregation of St. John's, a few people of moderate means whose houses or apartments the rector visited; people to whom modern life was increasingly perplexing. [9]
The idea behind the company was a public-spirited one, to give the citizens cheaper and better service, by a more modern equipment, by a wider system of transfer. [9]
Instead of developing the colonial simplicity on lines of dignity and harmony to modern use, we stuck on the pseudo-classic, we broke out in the Mansard, we broke all up into the whimsicalities of the so-called Queen Anne, without regard to climate or comfort. [4]
The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. [4]
It is possible that there are tricks of chemistry, ingenious processes, secrets of color, of which we are ignorant; but I do not believe there was ever an ancient alchemist who could not be taught something in a modern laboratory. [4]
It was known that the Seigneur had been requested to disband his so-called company of soldiers with their ancient livery and their modern arms, and to give them up. [11]
The truth was, that the old classical scholar did not care a great deal for modern English poetry. [6]
Who can say that the modern capitalist is not liberal, is not a public benefactor? [9]
The truth is that the development of the modern journal has been so sudden and marvelous that its conductors find themselves in possession of a machine that they scarcely know how to manage or direct. [4]
Do you remember that talk we had at father's, when he first came, and we likened him to a modern Savonarola? [9]
This modern stuff that pretends to give life is so much less exciting than my own daily experience that I cannot get interested in it. [4]
The prince propagates that kind of things in the modern times, and gets knighthood and guns for it. [5]
It is true that in his Republic almost all the social theories which have been deduced from the modern proclamation of equality are elaborated. [4]

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