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  • The names were fake, the chronologies oriented to Central America, and above all, no one on the relay flights knew about the Tannenbaum estate.†   (source)
  • We generated background studies, psychological assessments, daily chronologies, myriad facts and extrapolations.†   (source)
  • Chronology won out after all: the early things are on the east wall, what Charna calls the middle period on the end wall, and on the west wall are five recent pictures which I've never shown before.†   (source)
  • My memory houses a collection of images, not ordered in the patterns I see and respect in literary history, not ordered in any form vaguely resembling a chronology.†   (source)
  • This was good at least for a future fiction writer, being able to learn so penetratingly, and almost first of all, about chronology.†   (source)
  • And eventually I gained a distance and could look back at people and places of the past year, frozen in event and memory, calcified and motionless in a grand chronology that began and ended in the month of September.†   (source)
  • We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.   (source)
  • History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.   (source)
  • Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.   (source)
  • By the mere chronology of his works, Bunyan belongs in our next period, but in his case mere chronology must be disregarded.   (source)
  • No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors.   (source)
  • The order of things—chronologies—that was the hard part.†   (source)
  • Newton's tomb consisted of a massive black-marble sarcophagus on which reclined the sculpted form of Sir Isaac Newton, wearing classical costume, and leaning proudly against a stack of his own books—Divinity, Chronology, Opticks, and Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.†   (source)
  • He straightened up his desk, shut down his computer, and removed a floppy disk that contained his daily diary, his "Chronology of Events."†   (source)
  • Believe only in chronology.†   (source)
  • The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.†   (source)
  • …that ogre-face of her childhood seen once and then repeated at intervals and on occasions which she could neither count nor recall, like the mask in Greek tragedy interchangeable not only from scene to scene but from actor to actor and behind which the events and occasions took place without chronology or sequence and leaving her actually incapable of saying how many separate times she had seen him for the reason that, waking or sleeping, the aunt had taught her to see nothing else.†   (source)
  • In conclusion, I ought to add that no effort has been made to clear up the chronology of the letters.†   (source)
  • Trying to dampen Mr. Dumphry's enthusiasm, Dick went into impersonal chronology.†   (source)
  • What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations?†   (source)
  • Meanwhile he had projected a new work: An Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools—and another sonorous paragraph—Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently.†   (source)
  • …which, delivered by Brahma, treat of medicine, archery, architecture, music, and the four-and-sixty mechanical arts; the Ved-Angas, revealed by inspired saints, and devoted to astronomy, grammar, prosody, pronunciation, charms and incantations, religious rites and ceremonies; the Up-Angas, written by the sage Vyasa, and given to cosmogony, chronology, and geography; therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.†   (source)
  • …than the note of the bell; a row of tall, varnished case-clocks from the interior of a clock-maker's shop joined in one after another just as the shutters were enclosing them, like a row of actors delivering their final speeches before the fall of the curtain; then chimes were heard stammering out the Sicilian Mariners' Hymn; so that chronologists of the advanced school were appreciably on their way to the next hour before the whole business of the old one was satisfactorily wound up.†   (source)
  • His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship.†   (source)
  • Oh waywardness of womanhood! did his chronology fail him, or his ability to state not only a theory but the names of those who held it; or his provision for giving the heads of any subject on demand?†   (source)
  • In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.†   (source)
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