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Sentences starting with tradition

Tradition says he was a favorite god on the Island of Hawaii--a great king who had been deified for meritorious services--just our own fashion of rewarding heroes, with the difference that we would have made him a Postmaster instead of a god, no doubt. [5]
Tradition had its value when it did not deteriorate into superstition, into the mechanical, automatic transmission characteristic of the mediaeval Church, for the very suggestion of which Peter had rebuked Simon in Samaria. [9]
Tradition still bound them to St. John's. [9]
Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant, and satisfying spree. [5]
Tradition says that many springs ago, while upon this island, a young warrior loved and wooed the daughter of his chief, and it is said, also, the maiden loved the warrior. [5]
Tradition says it is made of (imported) fire and brimstone. [5]
Tradition says that here the Saviour was confined just previously to the crucifixion. [5]
Tradition explains the ceremonies in this way. [5]
Tradition is to be scouted when it is found inconvenient, but cited as irrefragable truth when it suits the case. [5]

Sentences ending with tradition

That is the tradition. [5]
Anyway, therefore, with tradition. [5]
He was used to being waited on, and he had expected the tailor to follow the tradition. [11]
The question of supreme interest to us, therefore, is whether the social order implied in the British program is mainly in the nature of a development of, or a break with, the Anglo-Saxon democratic tradition. [9]
The gigantic tree, struck with a sort of leprosy, like all its species, appears much older, and of course has its tradition. [4]
The American is simply the most modern of men, one who has thrown away the impedimenta of tradition. [4]
One needs to read this book before he visits those venerable cathedrals, with their treasures of tabooed and forgotten tradition. [5]
The latter, by official necessity, went in the meek and lowly swallow-tail--a deliciously sarcastic contrast: the one dress representing the honest and honourable dignity of the nation; the other, the cheap hypocrisy of the Republican Simplicity tradition. [5]
Committee on Propagation of the Tradition! [5]
It is wonderful, it is unique, it stands quite alone, there is nothing resembling it in history, nothing resembling it in romance, nothing approaching it even in tradition. [5]

Short sentences using tradition

The tradition of the Commons! [11]
That tradition is all past. [8]

More example sentences with the word tradition in them

There were three worlds here--that of Jack, to which Edith belonged by birth and tradition and habit; that of which we have spoken, to which she belonged by profound sympathy; and that of Father Damon, to which she belonged by undefined aspiration. [4]
These are they who deplore the absence among us of a tradition of monarchy, since the American people "should have something to look up to. [9]
The worst inns were in London, and the tradition has been handed down. [4]
There is, as we have seen, a very old tradition that Shakespeare was a butcher's apprentice. [5]
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
There it all was: not a word about radical morality or immorality; but the tradition of Family, the Commons, Master of the Hounds! [11]
He was called upon to abandon his tradition, to mingle in a European conflict, to fight for an idea alone. [9]
Under these influences transmitted to, or at least shared by, the medical profession, the old question between "Nature," so called, and "Art," or professional tradition, has reappeared with new interest. [3]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. [5]
The instinct of tradition which had been the cause of Mrs. Forsythe's departure was in him, too. [9]
By nature and tradition we are inclined to deplore and oppose any tendency toward the stratification of class antagonisms--the result of industrial discontent--into political groups. [9]
There is a tradition that Island 37 was one of the principal abiding places of the once celebrated 'Murel's Gang. [5]
There was a tradition that he had a wife somewhere--based upon wild words he had once said when under the influence of bad liquor; but he had roared his accuser the lie when the thing was imputed to him. [11]
Well, history and tradition testify that the heart is just about what it was in the beginning; it has undergone no shade of change. [5]
In this cavern, tradition says, Saul, the king, sat at midnight, and stared and trembled, while the earth shook, the thunders crashed among the hills, and out of the midst of fire and smoke the spirit of the dead prophet rose up and confronted him. [5]
The most trustworthy tradition avers, however, that only one man, a person named Babbitt, survived the massacre, and he was desperately wounded. [5]
There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
She opened the top drawer of the chest, the drawer in which Hannah, breaking tradition, had put the Bumpus genealogy. [9]
If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason. [5]
It dates back to the shadowy ages of tradition, and was the birthplace of gods renowned in Grecian mythology. [5]
The present pilgrim to the old church will find no memorial that Smith was buried there, and will encounter besides incredulity of the tradition that he ever rested there. [4]
He owed something to his position as Master of the Hounds--a tradition that oughtn't to be messed about. [11]
They know how to drive a stake through a pleasant tradition that will hold it to its place forever. [5]
I was able to bear their reproaches with the superior good nature that springs from success, to point out why the American tradition to which they so fatuously clung was a things of the past. [9]
The monks call this apartment the "Chapel of the Invention of the Cross"--a name which is unfortunate, because it leads the ignorant to imagine that a tacit acknowledgment is thus made that the tradition that Helena found the true Cross here is a fiction--an invention. [5]
The tendency of the young woman generally to simplicity, of the American young woman to a certain restraint (at least when abroad), to a deference to her elders, and to tradition, has been noted. [4]
He laughs at the tradition, but wants to make the trial anyway. [5]
In obedience to the time-honored tradition in Alexandria, after intoxicating himself with new wine in honor of the god, he had rushed out into the street to join the procession. [10]
Here, tradition says, the prophet Samuel was born, and here the Shunamite woman built a little house upon the city wall for the accommodation of the prophet Elisha. [5]
I am for the man who was the first settler on the St. Lawrence and this section of the continent--his history, his tradition, his honour and fame are in the history books of the world. [11]
In spite of the history of Daniel Webster and a long line of American tradition, I felt an incongruity in my classmate's aspiration. [9]
And even by the help of tradition the only thing that could be proven was that none of the five had seen daylight for thirty-five years: how much longer this privation has lasted was not guessable. [5]
Following him without the blessing of the Church, she would trample under foot every dear tradition of her life, win the scorn of all of her religion, and destroy her own peace; for the faith of her fathers was as the breath of her nostrils. [11]
There were in the Apostolic writings and tradition misinterpretations of life which had done much harm. [9]
Curiously enough, now that it is defined, it proves to be an American issue--a logical and positive projection of our Washingtonian tradition and Monroe doctrine. [9]
Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together. [5]
Ancient monuments and stone implements found in all parts of the world, about which no tradition has been preserved by the present inhabitants, indicate much extinction. [1]
The house is still standing, but the statues, the minarets, the arches, and the memory of the great Lord Timothy Dexter live chiefly in tradition, and in the work which he bequeathed to posterity, and of which I shall say a few words. [6]
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]
But to those staid residents of Hampton who had thought themselves still to be living in the old New England tradition, he was the genius of an evil dream. [9]
No tradition is so amply verified as this of St. Veronica and her handkerchief. [5]
That this inequality should continue in an era of universal education, universal suffrage, universal locomotion, universal emancipation from nearly all tradition, is a surprise, and a perfectly comprehensible cause of discontent. [4]
Through our sacred Scriptures, through the ancient storytellers, through the tradition which in literature made, as I said, the chief continuity in the stream of time, we all live a considerable, perhaps the better, portion of our lives in the Orient. [4]
Back of the schoolhouse rose a round hill, upon which, tradition said, had stood in colonial times a block-house, built by the settlers for defense against the Indians. [4]
In the diplomatic scale Washington still ranks below the Sublime Porte, but this anomaly is due to tradition, and does not represent England's real estimate of the status of the republic. [4]
This is a ruined Khan of the Middle Ages, in one of whose side courts is a great walled and arched pit with water in it, and this pit, one tradition says, is the one Joseph's brethren cast him into. [5]
Just beyond are Richmond Hill and Hampton Court, and five or six centuries of tradition and history and romance. [4]
I've learned the rest of the history of old John York--the part that never got to England; for here at King's House there's a holy tradition that the real John York belongs to it and to it alone. [11]
Tradition, order, observance, responsibility, authority it was difficult to imagine these as a logical part of the natural sequence of her life. [9]
Woman has no respect for tradition, and because a thing is as it is is sufficient reason for changing it. [4]
But he was really interested for him, for his people, and for the tradition of the Commons. [11]
In short, her philosophy was that of the modern, orthodox American, tinged by a somewhat commercialized Sunday school tradition of an earlier day, and highly approved by the censors of the movies. [9]
They are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form, and present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated. [6]
A crazy inscription on a block of stone, which snuffy antiquaries bother over and tangle up and make nothing out of but a bare name (which they spell wrong)--no history, no tradition, no poetry--nothing that can give it even a passing interest. [5]
Some family tradition of wealth or distinction is apt to be at the bottom of it, and it survives all the advantages that used to set it off. [6]
In the economy of room, which our journals will more and more be compelled to cultivate, I venture to say that this tradition will be set aside. [4]
A certain air of romance and tradition hangs about the French Broad and the Warm Springs, which the visitor must possess himself of in order to appreciate either. [4]
I fancy that nothing but tradition and a remaining Southern hospitality could induce this private family to suffer the incursions of this wayfaring man. [4]
Being a genius, Mr. Jason did not wholly break with tradition, but retained those elements of the old muddled system that had their value, chartering steamboats for outings on the river, giving colossal picnics in Lowry Park. [9]
While the first missionaries were on their way around the Horn, the idolatrous customs which had obtained in the island, as far back as tradition reached were suddenly broken up. [5]
He was a man at Jonesboro, and tradition says that he fought with a fence-rail. [9]
Truth might no longer be identified with Tradition, and the day was past when councils and synods might determine it for all mankind. [9]
Everybody here, indeed, knows of Byron; and I think his memory is more secure than any saint of them all in their stone boxes, partly because his poetry has celebrated the region, perhaps rather from the perpetuated tradition of his generosity. [4]
They wouldn't do it then, only earthly tradition makes a grand show pretty necessary on that kind of an occasion. [5]
Professor Woodlouse read it aloud in its quaint and musty phraseology, to wit: "'In ye time of our fathers Man still walked ye earth, as by tradition we know. [5]
There is, it is true, no tradition to this effect, but such traditions as we have about Shakespeare's occupation between the time of leaving school and going to London are so loose and baseless that no confidence can be placed in them. [5]
The British tradition is likewise hostile to such a tendency. [9]
And yet it is a most wise and humane provision; and many years ago, there is a tradition, an entombment alive was prevented by it. [4]
These are the instinctive, plain, and most legitimate questions humanity asks itself when it encounters the monuments and tradition of that period. [2]
I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or completely English in training, method, and tradition, showing nothing distinctively American in their writings except the incidental subject. [4]
We stood reverently in that place; so did we also in the Mamertine Prison, where he was confined, where he converted the soldiers, and where tradition says he caused a spring of water to flow in order that he might baptize them. [5]
It sometimes came in sailing vessels from New England as ballast; and then, if there happened to be a man-of-war in port and balls and suppers raging by consequence, the ballast was worth six hundred dollars a ton, as is evidenced by reputable tradition. [5]
It is extremely improbable that these practices, followed by so many distinct nations, should be due to tradition from any common source. [1]
It is seven hundred years old, but neither history or tradition say whether it was built as it is, purposely, or whether one of its sides has settled. [5]
It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. [5]
His love of history and tradition was abnormal. [11]
But he knows his business; and what does Caracalla care for tradition or descent, for the murmurs and discontent of high or low? [10]
We ascended the Hill of Evil Counsel, where Judas received his thirty pieces of silver, and we also lingered a moment under the tree a venerable tradition says he hanged himself on. [5]
She's modern to her finger tips, and yet she's extraordinarily American--in spite of her modernity, she embodies in some queer way our tradition. [9]
The common folk held him dear, and his memory is still green in ballad and tradition. [5]
Democracy too must have a foreign policy, a tradition of service; a trained if not hereditary group to guide it through troubled waters. [9]
It is so hard to get anything out of the dead hand of medical tradition! [3]
We intended to go to the Bridge of Sighs, but happened into the Ducal Palace first--a building which necessarily figures largely in Venetian poetry and tradition. [5]
Human care for generations had given to the place a tradition. [9]
Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. [5]
Ferrol spoke excellent French, and soon found points of pleasant contact with Monsieur Lavilette, who, despite the fact that he had coarsened as the years went on, had still upon him the touch of family tradition, which may become either offensive pride or defensive self-respect. [11]
A safe motto for any such society would be Tradition and Freedom--'Traditio et Libertas'. [4]
Can we then for a moment believe that, if this had been so, tradition would have been absolutely silent on the matter? [5]
They were the first institutors of that honorable order of knighthood called Fly-market shirks, and, if tradition speak true, did likewise introduce the far-famed step in dancing called 'double trouble. [4]
In Honolulu a few years from now he will be only a tradition. [5]
Ah suppose mah fathaw despahses business, but he's a tradition himself, as Ah tell him. [8]
Property, that sacred fabric of government, had been attacked and destroyed, law had been defied, and yet the City Hall, the sanctuary of American tradition, was turned over to the alien mob for a continuous series of mass meetings. [9]
Remorse of conscience drove him mad, and tradition presents us the singular spectacle of a god traveling "on the shoulder;" for in his gnawing grief he wandered about from place to place boxing and wrestling with all whom he met. [5]
The first is Dr. John Clark, who is said by tradition to have been the first regularly educated physician who resided in New England. [3]
Every year I doubt not this stainless berry ripens here, and is unplucked by any knight of the Holy Grail who is worthy to eat it, and keeps alive, in the prodigality of nature, the tradition of the unperverted conditions of taste before the fall. [4]
This meant the development of a new culture, one to be founded on the American tradition of equality of opportunity. [9]
Its members sincerely desire a united Germany, and, of course, are friendly to Prussia, hate Napoleon, have little confidence in the Hapsburgs, like to read of uneasiness in Paris, and hail any movement that overthrows tradition and the prescriptive right of classes. [4]
Law and tradition defended its sanctity more effectively than troops. [9]
But defiance of custom and tradition was a habit with Jo Portugais. [11]

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