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Sentences ending with period

I may as well add here that, as I have since learned, this is one of the most important cases of releasing right of reentry for condition broken which has been settled by arbitration for a considerable period. [6]
And why may we not continue that ratio far beyond that period? [7]
Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period. [5]
And besides, Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in his first London years, as in those produced at a later period. [5]
Four were raised to the great office during that period. [5]
She then returned to her uncle, the old gun, or son of a gun, as the case may be, and he taught her to write and speak Latin, which was the language of literature and polite society at that period. [5]
They were going to Europe for another indefinite period. [5]
Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he had changed greatly during that period. [2]
The attention that these audacious satires of the theater, the actors, and their audience attracted is evidence of the literary poverty of the period. [4]
The letter reporting the matter to his brother is fragmentary, and is the last remaining to us of the piloting period. [5]

Short sentences using period

Take the glacial period. [5]

Sentences containing period two or more times

It bears marks of having been so for a long period, and probably a period long ago. [4]
But it was not until long after this period that I became intimately acquainted with him, and I must again have recourse to the classmates and friends who have favored me with their reminiscences of this period of his life. [6]
There is one more letter, written the night before the Quaker City sailed-a letter which in a sense marks the close of the first great period of his life--the period of aimless wandering--adventure --youth. [5]
The chief agents in causing organs to become rudimentary seem to have been disuse at that period of life when the organ is chiefly used (and this is generally during maturity), and also inheritance at a corresponding period of life. [1]
A single impression, in a very early period of atmospheric existence,--perhaps, indirectly, before that period, as was said to have happened in the case of James the First of England,--may establish a communication between this centre and the heart which will remain open ever afterwards. [6]

More example sentences with the word period in them

And for ten years Bishop Dyer had been the closest friend and counselor of her father, and for the greater part of that period her own friend and Scriptural teacher. [13]
The letters he wrote during that period have not survived. [5]
He must have written more than once during this period, but the next existing letter--also to Sister Pamela--was written in October. [5]
These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
Many a young writer will recall his words of encouragement at some period in his own career when the quiet appreciation of one meant more to him than did later the loud applause of many. [4]
On no account would she have left the capital during this period of decision, and, though her husband earnestly entreated her to go to the springs, whose waters had proved so beneficial, she remained in Brussels. [10]
The reader who would finish this Essay, which I suspect to belong to an early period of Emerson's development, must be prepared to plunge into mysticism and lose himself at last in an Oriental apologue. [6]
With her he would cast anchor for the remainder of his life; but first must come the period when he enjoyed the compensation now awarded to him for such severe sufferings. [10]
It is a work worthy of the early, best period, and of a master of the time of Apelies. [10]
I used to wonder if, in the Brandon attitude of mind at this period, there were not just a little envy of such unclouded prosperity. [4]
Lucilla nursed him with unfailing devotion and enjoyed the longed-for monopoly of his attentions through a period of much suffering. [10]
These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. [1]
Of a youth whose mind, like mine at that period, possessed some general capability, without perhaps a single prominent and marked talent, a proneness to imitation is sure to be the besetting sin. [6]
Are we not whole years short of that interesting period of life when Mr. Balzac says that a man, etc., etc., etc.? [6]
So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
An old nurse who saw him at the very earliest period of his existence is said to have spoken of him as one of the most promising infants she had seen in her long experience. [6]
The Greek Plutarch, who lived much nearer the period of our heroine than Dio, estimated her more justly than most of the Roman historians. [10]
During the period while he was engaged in writing it, his wife, who had seemed in perfect health, died suddenly of pneumonia. [6]
After a period which was no briefer than that usually occupied by Bob's letters, Cynthia took the other one from her lap, and stared at it in much perplexity before she tore it open. [9]
The low words which the artist exchanged with the woman whose love, even during the period of separation, would shed light and warmth upon his darkened life, were deeply impressed upon the souls of both. [10]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
Observe the blood which is trickling from her finger; also the gold-eyed needle of the period, with which she is at work. [12]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
At the period when Emerson reached manhood, Unitarianism was the dominating form of belief in the more highly educated classes of both of the two great New England centres, the town of Boston and the University at Cambridge. [6]
These four years were the period of Mr. Adams's administration, nearly and substantially. [7]
The travellers' tents were pitched one sultry evening in November, between the Nile and the limestone range, in which was arrayed a long row of tombs of the period of the Pharaohs. [10]
Some of these were of the old-fashioned, classic type, and others new examples of a national architecture seeking to find itself,--white and yellow colonial, roughcast modifications of the Shakespearian period, and nondescript mixtures of cobblestones and shingles. [9]
True, the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period, and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not discomfort; for there is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities. [5]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]
The school never went on more smoothly than during the first period of his administration, after he had arranged its duties, and taken his share, and even more than his share, upon himself. [6]
Soon after Hermon went on board Archon's splendidly equipped vessel and, instead of a tiresome journey, began a new and riotous period of festivity. [10]
It is probably well to have a period in the year that tests character to the utmost, and the person who can enter spring through the gate of February a better man or woman is likely to adorn society the rest of the year. [4]
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]
From this period we hear no more of the favorite body-servant of General Washington until May, 1825, at which time he died again. [5]
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]
And yet I was sure that I loved Maude; in a surprisingly short period I had become accustomed to her, dependent on her ministrations and the normal, cosy intimacy of our companionship. [9]
The water way was not finished at that period, because an oracle had asserted that it would benefit only the foreigners, the Phoenicians. [10]
Gradually, as he was drawn more and more into the network of the relationships of this extraordinary man,--nay, as he inevitably became a part of that network,--a period of bewilderment ensued. [9]
Therefore, the artist was assured by his military companion, Philadelphus could let the campaign take its course, and permit himself the brief period of rest in this strangely chosen place, which the leeches had advised. [10]
In short, he was a product of the period since the civil war closed, that great upheaval of patriotic feeling and sacrifice, which ended in so much expansion and so many opportunities. [4]
And yet there was a period during which he pursued his shrunken duties as though nothing had happened to him; as a man who has been struck in battle keeps on, loath to examine, to acknowledge the gravity of his wound; fearing to, perhaps. [9]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
Why should not variations occur during an early period of development, having no relation to reversion; yet such variations might be preserved and accumulated, if in any way serviceable, for instance, in shortening and simplifying the course of development? [1]
It was in vain that he applied to his business acquaintances and friends; it was a period of sudden panic and no money. [5]
I have been used, from an early period of my life, to hear the discussion of grave questions, both in politics and religion. [6]
He had laid up his yacht and joined the Red Cross and, henceforth, for an indeterminable period, he was to abide amidst the discomforts and dangers of the Western Front, with five days' leave every three months. [9]
From that period until the end of the war, Myrtle passed her time between the life of the tent and that of the hospital. [6]
It is an unquestionable fact that during the reconstruction period which followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dangerous precedents than during the war itself. [7]
Those birds which undergo a seasonal change of plumage likewise become much more pugnacious at the period when they are most gaily ornamented. [1]
A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
I would always treat any given young person passing through the meteoric showers which rain down on the brief period of adolescence with great tenderness. [6]
As to impressions transmitted at a very early period of existence, every one knows the story of King James's fear of a naked sword, and the way it is accounted for. [6]
During this period, too, there sprang up the strangest of intimacies between him and Jethro Bass. [9]
I present them to you at the close of a period of twenty years during which a warm and fast friendship has subsisted between us, unbroken by any disagreement. [10]
They are books to which it is impossible to place any period of termination. [5]
He unburdened himself to Twichell and to Howells, after a period of suffering. [5]
This brings us to the reign of Elizabeth, after passing through a period of nearly five hundred years of England's history--492 to be exact. [5]
To go back to the period of his return to America. [4]
And, with reference to the period at which the power of reproduction is gained, it is a remarkable fact that various birds occasionally breed whilst retaining their immature plumage. [1]
He did not, to the best of my recollection, even smile during the whole period that we were in company. [6]
Had she come to that period of reaction in evil when there is an agonised desire to turn back towards the good? [11]
Thus it came to pass that I did I not take the time of Hadrian for the background of a tale till after I had dealt with the still later period of the early monastic move in "Homo Sum. [10]
From December, 1797, to October, 1799, he remained with Dr. Holyoke as a student, a period which he has spoken of as a most interesting and most gratifying part of his life. [3]
Sophonisba's home was to have become his, and it had never entered his mind to limit the period of his enjoyment and study on the sacred soil. [10]
All we have to do is to spread the average over a wider territory or a longer period of time. [6]
There is enough to account for them in that unconsciously remembered period of existence before we have learned the hard limitations of real life. [6]
Up to this time Dick Venner had not decided on the particular mode and the precise period of relieving himself from the unwarrantable interference which threatened to defeat his plans. [6]
For the first time after a long period he again called upon the "word," and did so fervently, with all his heart. [10]
He had passed through the period of feverish excitement which marks a change of religious opinion. [6]
I had sometimes thought that--at some future period, after I was gone, it might--but I hardly know what to say about your suggestions. [6]
His letters of this period were mainly written to his old friend Twichell, in Hartford. [5]
It was during this period that he was joined by his intimate friend, the Rev. [5]
It was at this period of my life that my father determined to try the effect of travel and residence in different localities upon my bodily and mental condition. [6]
One day during this period I remembered my Poem of the World, and instantly had the box brought in which I kept it among German favours, little pink notes, and similar trophies. [10]
One letter of this period has been preserved. [5]
Irving's letters of this period are full of the gossip of the town and the matrimonial fate of his acquaintances. [4]
The story of this particular period of his life was given by Warner in a work which was published about forty years later. [4]
We note in this communication that Clemens says that he has been at the machine three years and seven months, but this was only the period during which he had spent the regular monthly sum of three thousand dollars. [5]
And do not think they are kept only to be spanked and dusted during that dreadful period when their owner is but too thankful to become an exile and a wanderer from the scene of single combats between dead authors and living housemaids. [3]
The state of things in London is best learned, however, from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to. [6]
It is just the--the culmination of a long period of incompatibility. [9]
During this period there was at the North, and especially in the East, great intellectual activity and agitation, and agitation ethical and moral as well as intellectual. [4]
Unlike the old theology woven of myths and a fanciful philosophy of the decadent period of Greece, natural theology was founded on science itself, and scientists were among those who sought to develop it. [9]
Owing, however, to their passion for imitating Europeans, they altered their manner of dressing at an early period, and the use of alcoholic drinks became very general. [1]
The typesetting-machine and the unfortunate publishing venture were drawing heavily on the family finances at this period, and the cost of the Hartford establishment was too great to be maintained. [5]
Whether or not the two rules generally hold good, we may conclude from the facts given in the eighth chapter, that the period of variation is one important element in determining the form of transmission. [1]
The operations of the treasury during the period which has elapsed since your adjournment have been conducted with signal success. [7]
Whether this is the survival of the period when the paper contained little else except "selections," and other printed matter was scarce, or whether it is only the beginning of a development that shall supply the public nearly all its literature, I do not know. [4]
But that wasn't the period of life for us to notice it. [8]
Honora intimated that the period of his probation had not yet expired. [9]
With respect to the period of development, Mr. Blyth informs me that there was at one time in the Zoological Gardens a young koodoo (Ant. [1]
I, too, scanned the period immediately preceding my illness, but reached the conclusion that it was due to acute colds, the first of which ran into a very violent fever. [10]
He was probably the only man who could have guided the nation through the perplexities of the reconstruction period in such a manner as to prevent in the work of peace the revival of the passions of the war. [7]
But at last the odious thing was over, grim and implacable Law satisfied after he had compelled them to stand in line for an interminable period before his grill, and mingle with those whom he chose, in his ignorance, to call their peers. [9]
And then, somehow, the note of mystic exaltation died away, to be succeeded by a period of realism. [9]
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness. [5]
We spoke of the long period seeming to have elapsed since this war began. [6]
Very few reached the little city of Tennis, which now, during the period of inundation in the year 274 B.C., was completely encircled by water. [10]
The mosaic on the left side--which is, perhaps, the finest one of the period in existence--is interesting on another account. [4]

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