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  • Because we are part of that one tenth of one tenth of one percent of the Hegemony's citizens who travel between the stars rather than along the Web, we represent odd epochs of our own recent past.†   (source)
  • — 42 As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.†   (source)
  • When we did, after the melancholy epochs of Janet Savory and Tweedy Browner, things proceeded to fall apart.†   (source)
  • Chapter 16 —— EPOCH†   (source)
  • This marked the beginning of a new epoch in the history of mankind.†   (source)
  • They were achingly beautiful, these ghostly cities — New York, Rio, Shanghai, Paris—under their stains of stars, images as though from an epoch before electricity, but with the buildings of today.†   (source)
  • For I wanted to immerse my readers in an epoch in the life of the Dominican Republic that I believe can only finally be understood by fiction, only finally be redeemed by the imagination.†   (source)
  • Because when she died of murder on their wedding night, it was crucial that all Florin realize the depth of his love, the epochal size of his loss, since then no one would dare hesitate to follow him in the revenge war he was to launch against Guilder.†   (source)
  • There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch.†   (source)
  • He was losing his sight and his hearing, he seemed to confuse the people he was speaking to with others he had known in remote epochs of mankind, and he would answer questions with a complex hodgepodge of languages.†   (source)
  • Rene probably didn't reflect on it, but he was in on the final years of Manchester's century-long epoch as a cradle of industry.†   (source)
  • Thus Jean learned how to determine the exact amount of time the relics had lain in the ground, how to differentiate the various styles and epochs, and how to locate burial grounds in the desert by means of signs invisible to civilized eyes.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf unveiled his epochal surprise that Sunday with all the aplomb of an experienced impresario.†   (source)
  • Yes, it might be the era of the kidney transplant in America and a vaccine for polio due to arrive even in India, but here Hema felt she'd tricked time; with her twentieth-century knowledge she had traveled back to an earlier epoch.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, black is on top, in the middle epochs, white holds the odds, but soon Ethiopia shall stretch forth her noble wings!†   (source)
  • What changes had taken place at home in his absence he could only imagine, but clearly, with the advent of the new Constitution, a new epoch had opened in the history of his country.†   (source)
  • End of an epoch, I could tell the king.†   (source)
  • It's an interesting characteristic of epochs such as ours that people begin to be afraid of saying the things they want to say-and afraid, when questioned, to remain silent about things they'd prefer never to utter.†   (source)
  • But when he came back late at night, the magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall, the stink of sweat and ruined vegetables and the ashen city penetrating me like an epochal sickness.†   (source)
  • It was probably no more than eighty years old, but would not have been out of place in an entirely different epoch.†   (source)
  • What, then, was regarded as miraculous in each epoch-the ancient, primitive epoch and the later, postRoman epoch which was far more advanced?†   (source)
  • ...the first day of this visit had become the most fatal epoch of his life.   (source)
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...   (source)
  • ...the many formations long anterior to the Silurian epoch in a completely metamorphosed condition.   (source)
  • an important epoch in the history of the country
  • But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.   (source)
  • The exhibit is called, Images of an Epoch.
  • And the next great epoch in the history of mankind is the Baroque.†   (source)
  • No epoch is either purely good or purely evil.†   (source)
  • He died in 1804, when the cultural epoch we call Romanticism was in the ascendant.†   (source)
  • That epoch indirectly shaped much of the boy's sense of himself in relation to the world.†   (source)
  • The Epoch of Decline I can't talk about it.†   (source)
  • What are the 'epoch-making possibilities'?†   (source)
  • He listened to what Sima was saying: "It's possible to use words such as 'culture,' 'epochs.†   (source)
  • In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another at a period several millennia after the epoch of which we speak.†   (source)
  • THE WAY TO REMEMBER PLEISTOCENE IS TO REMEMBER THAT THIS EPOCH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE APPEARANCE OF MAN AND WIDESPREAD GLACIAL ICE—REMEMBER THE ICE, IT RHYMES WITH PLEIS IN PLEISTOCENE.†   (source)
  • WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW IS MORE SPECIFIC, YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT CHARACTERIZED AN EPOCH—FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH EPOCH IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE TRIUMPH OF BIRDS AND PLACENTAL MAMMALS?"†   (source)
  • Today we are going to talk about Romanticism, which could be described as Europe's last great cultural epoch.†   (source)
  • Herder showed that each historical epoch had its own intrinsic value and each nation its own character or 'soul.'†   (source)
  • They became intensely conscious of their epoch, which is what led them to introduce the term 'Middle Ages' to cover the centuries between antiquity and their own time.†   (source)
  • But after 1850 one can no longer speak of whole 'epochs' which comprise poetry, philosophy, art, science, and music.†   (source)
  • Was Romanticism one of those epochs?†   (source)
  • Midnight was 0, one o'clock was 100 years after Christ, six o'clock was 600 years after Christ, and 14 hours was 1,400 years after Christ… Alberto continued: "The Middle Ages actually means the period between two other epochs.†   (source)
  • And though I never thought I would desire such a set of sensations for myself, in the days and weeks after she was gone from my house, in those cycles that seemed to pass like fast-turning epochs, as if I were some inconsequential rock hurtling past the warm blue sphere of human time and history, yet unseen and unknown, I finally wished I might remain in the sickness I was developing when I was sure Sunny was about to be a mother.†   (source)
  • The appointment of a minister from the United States to Your Majesty's Court will form an epoch in the history of England and of America," he continued.†   (source)
  • But the chaplain's impression of a prior meeting was of some occasion far more momentous and occult than that, of a significant encounter with Yossarian in some remote, submerged and perhaps even entirely spiritual epoch in which he had made the identical, foredooming admission that there was nothing, absolutely nothing, he could do to help him.†   (source)
  • To Abigail, Jefferson had written, "I have considered you while in London as my neighbor, and look forward to the moment of your departure from thence as to an epoch of much regret and concern to me…… My daughters join me in affectionate adieus.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, you have been chosen-in recognition of your distinguished public service and social loyalty-to witness the unveiling of a scientific achievement of such tremendous importance, such staggering scope, such epoch-making possibilities that up to this moment it has been known only to a very few and only as Project X. Dr. Stadler focused his field glasses on the only thing in sight-on the blotch of the distant farm.†   (source)
  • I didn't reflect on it at the time—indeed, not until many years later—but what I was experiencing was the irreducibly real Japan: the Japan that had existed before the militaristic epoch that culminated in the Pacific War, and that will continue into the next millennium.†   (source)
  • If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century—any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America—or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.†   (source)
  • They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch.†   (source)
  • That luncheon party—for party it proved to be—was the beginning of a new epoch in my life.†   (source)
  • In the fateful,epoch-announcing words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "Dead are all the gods.†   (source)
  • It might be deplorable, but it was not really very astonishing; for it could hardly be expected that one man unaided should uproot permanently the habits and traditions of an epoch.†   (source)
  • Should the amendment be ratified by the states, it would nourish bondage for an epoch by fixing slavery fast in the constitutional structure of the nation.†   (source)
  • Digging up the ballista was, I suppose, a tribute to me, too, though he always had shown a tendency to instruct his guests in the art of war of the pregun-powder epochs.†   (source)
  • He was on a naked rock in the desert, in the stone age, a prey to homesickness for his own kind, his own epoch, for European man and his glorious history of desire and dreams.†   (source)
  • He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived.†   (source)
  • This despair of his not only unmasked the conceited lecturer and dismissed with its irony the matter at hand, the expectant attitude of the public, the somewhat presumptuous title under which the lecture was announced—no, the Steppenwolf's look pierced our whole epoch, its whole overwrought activity, the whole surge and strife, the whole vanity, the whole superficial play of a shallow, opinionated intellectuality.†   (source)
  • Adjectives like EPOCH-MAKING, EPIC, HISTORIC, UNFORGETTABLE, TRIUMPHANT, AGE-OLD, INEVITABLE, INEXORABLE, VERITABLE, are used to dignify the sordid processes of international politics, while writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes on an archaic color, its characteristic words being: REALM, THRONE, CHARIOT, MAILED FIST, TRIDENT, SWORD, SHIELD, BUCKLER, BANNER, JACKBOOT, CLARION.†   (source)
  • Sebastian got very drunk before dinner in his mother's house, and thus marked the beginning of a new epoch in his melancholy record, another stride in the flight from his family which brought him to ruin.†   (source)
  • He looked around at the table and then he looked at the bull's head and said, 'No,' once more and then he put his head down and he put his napkin up to his mouth and then he just sat there like that and said nothing and the banquet, which had started so well, and promised to mark an epoch in hilarity and good fellowship was not a success.†   (source)
  • If historical epochs are judged by the opportunities they offer talented men to rise from the ranks to places of wealth, power, and prestige, the period during which Lincoln grew up was among the greatest in history, and among all places such opportunities were most available in the fresh territory north and west of the Ohio River—the Valley of Democracy.†   (source)
  • It had not seemed to me, for instance, that Rutherford's journey, as reported in the press, had been particularly epoch-making; the buried cities of Khotan were old stuff, if anyone remembered Stein and Sven Hedin.†   (source)
  • It is clear that each of the three stages of procreation represents an epoch in the development of the world.†   (source)
  • The bold and truly epoch-making writings of the psychoanalysts are indispensable to the student of mythology; for, whatever may be thought of the detailed and sometimes contradictory interpretations of specific cases and problems, Freud, Jung, and their followers have demonstrated irrefutably that the logic, the heroes, and the deeds of myth survive into modern times.†   (source)
  • 3 But, as in the death of the Buddha, the power to make a full transit back through the epochs of emanation depends on the character of the man when he was alive.†   (source)
  • Stated in the terms already formulated, the hero's first task is to experience consciously the antecedent stages of the cosmogonic cycle; to break back through the epochs of emanation.†   (source)
  • When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.†   (source)
  • An epoch-making development for our maritime commerce—simply not to be overestimated.†   (source)
  • This is day one of year one of the new epoch—the Epoch of the Invisible Man.†   (source)
  • "I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life.†   (source)
  • All the British colonies had then a great degree of similarity at the epoch of their settlement.†   (source)
  • At this epoch, the ideas of pride which are in fashion in our days did not prevail.†   (source)
  • The world will not see the grand epoch of my majority twice.†   (source)
  • But I now entered on my fifteenth year—a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl.†   (source)
  • The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch.†   (source)
  • A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life.†   (source)
  • But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.†   (source)
  • The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.†   (source)
  • His meeting with Pierre formed an epoch in Prince Andrew's life.†   (source)
  • At the epoch of this history, the cell in the Tour-Roland was occupied.†   (source)
  • At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age.†   (source)
  • Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit at that epoch was perpetuated in Pearl.†   (source)
  • Today's events mark an epoch, the greatest epoch in our history," he concluded.†   (source)
  • It is asserted that after that epoch the archdeacon had frequent conferences with Louis XI.†   (source)
  • From the earliest epoch of her conscious life, she had entered upon this as her appointed mission.†   (source)
  • For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility.†   (source)
  • The burning of Smolensk and its abandonment made an epoch in his life.†   (source)
  • They were four Oscars; for, at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist.†   (source)
  • It is certain that in architectural epochs, the poems, rare it is true, resemble the monuments.†   (source)
  • It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an epoch in which a pot contains power.†   (source)
  • At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris.†   (source)
  • This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave.†   (source)
  • The chemical match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel represented progress.†   (source)
  • The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of this nature.†   (source)
  • Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at this epoch.†   (source)
  • The processes of disinfection were, at that epoch, extremely rudimentary.†   (source)
  • It was at this epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den.†   (source)
  • At that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age.†   (source)
  • At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first birthday.†   (source)
  • Tolls were still collected there at that epoch.†   (source)
  • At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.†   (source)
  • The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation characterized the second.†   (source)
  • At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in process of repaving.†   (source)
  • Counterfeiting was still punishable with death at that epoch.†   (source)
  • Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls.†   (source)
  • This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch.†   (source)
  • The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish war."†   (source)
  • The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch.†   (source)
  • At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah!†   (source)
  • At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, and spurs the pedestrian.†   (source)
  • Whilst she did not see him, there still lingered in her heart of hearts a vague, undefined hope that "something" would occur, something big, enormous, epoch-making, which would shift from her young, weak shoulders this terrible burden of responsibility, of having to choose between two such cruel alternatives.†   (source)
  • …of space—the name of the fourth being Time—which had sailed the centuries with that old nave, where bay after bay, chapel after chapel, seemed to stretch across and hold down and conquer not merely a few yards of soil, but each successive epoch from which the whole building had emerged triumphant, hiding the rugged barbarities of the eleventh century in the thickness of its walls, through which nothing could be seen of the heavy arches, long stopped and blinded with coarse blocks of…†   (source)
  • The epoch-making trial had started, and the Superintendent of Police was opening the case for the prosecution.†   (source)
  • Now for fifteen years at least I have studied the Apocalypse, and she agrees with me in thinking that the present is the epoch represented by the third horse, the black one whose rider holds a measure in his hand.†   (source)
  • No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence.†   (source)
  • An Epoch in Anne's Life†   (source)
  • It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life.†   (source)
  • Governor Wolcott had made his short, memorable speech, saying, "Fort Wagner marked an epoch in the history of a race, and called it into manhood."†   (source)
  • It is a terrible idea, but it is historic, it is statistic; it is indeed one of those facts which enables an intelligent historian to reconstruct the physiognomy of a special epoch, for it brings out this further point with mathematical accuracy, that the clergy were in those days sixty times richer and more flourishing than the rest of humanity and perhaps sixty times fatter also….†   (source)
  • You are also aware what inhuman abominations, what bloodthirsty intolerance—without which the artifact behind me would not exist—that epoch brought forth.†   (source)
  • An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.†   (source)
  • …with its wild race of fishermen for whom, no more than for their whales, had there been any Middle Ages—it had been a great joy to me to see it suddenly take its place in the order of the centuries, with a stored consciousness of the romanesque epoch, and to know that the gothic trefoil had come to diversify those wild rocks also, at the appointed hour, like those frail but hardy plants which, in the Polar regions, when the spring returns, scatter their stars about the eternal snows.†   (source)
  • …on the device of the clockmaker's pendulum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but the history of the last oscillation repeated; nay more, that in the unthinkable infinitude of time the sun throws off the earth and catches it again a thousand times as a circus rider throws up a ball, and that the total of all our epochs is but the moment between the toss and the catch, has the colossal mechanism no purpose?†   (source)
  • As Anne would have said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it.†   (source)
  • Herr Settembrini had characterized the phenomenon of backsliding as a "sickness"—and from his pedagogic viewpoint, even the worldview, the intellectual epoch, toward which one "slid back" might appear "sick" as well.†   (source)
  • "War," Settembrini exclaimed, "even war, my dear sir, has on occasion been forced to serve progress—as you yourself must grant me, if you will recall certain events from your own favorite epoch, by which I mean the Crusades.†   (source)
  • A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and contemporaries; and although he may regard the general and impersonal foundations of his existence as unequivocal givens and take them for granted, having as little intention of ever subjecting them to critique as our good Hans Castorp himself had, it is nevertheless quite possible that he senses his own moral well-being to be somehow impaired by the…†   (source)
  • A matter that the Italian evidently preferred to take for granted would be the next item on that agenda: whether the classical tradition of the Mediterranean was intended for all humanity, and therefore eternal in human terms, or whether it had not merely been the intellectual fashion and trimmings of one particular epoch, the bourgeois liberal age, which could then die with it.†   (source)
  • Epoch-making!†   (source)
  • An epoch begins!†   (source)
  • …Herr Settembrini, who asserted that her sole historical purpose had been to serve as the patron of the dark forces of inertia and reaction and then went on to claim that the affirmation of life and a future open to revolution and renewal was bound up with the opposing principles of enlightenment, science, and progress, which had arisen in the glorious epoch that witnessed the rebirth of classical education—and drove home this profession of faith with gestures and a burst of eloquence.†   (source)
  • The fear of death came from epochs of lowest human culture, when violent death was the rule, and the terror rightly associated in man's emotions with a violent death had been wedded to the idea of death itself for ages now.†   (source)
  • His opponent's contempt for the love of literary form, he cried, only too plainly revealed a taste for the frenzied barbarism of certain epochs, but without such a love no true humanity was possible, or even conceivable, not now, not ever.†   (source)
  • To discreet orchestral accompaniment, a veritable international chorus of celebrated singers, male and female, put their highly trained, God-given talents to good use in arias, duets, ensemble scenes from all the many epochs and genres of musical theater: the Mediterranean bel canto, captivating in both its lighthearted and noble forms; a German world of folklore, rogues, and demons; French opera, grand and comic.†   (source)
  • But when Settembrini declared that such a neglect of nature and a refusal to study her led humankind down a false path and then began in taut words to contrast an absurd formlessness—to which the Middle Ages and epochs that imitated it were addicted—with classicism, with the Greco-Roman heritage of form, beauty, reason, and serenity born of natural piety, for classicism alone was destined to further the human enterprise, Hans Castorp interrupted him and asked how all that fitted in…†   (source)
  • …was still no end in sight, for the poem, which had dealt relentlessly with the pain of childbirth and a lover's first kiss, with the crown of suffering and God's strict, fatherly kindness, had plunged into the warp and woof of creation, into epochs and nations, had lost itself in the vastness of the stars, even mentioning the Chaldeans and the zodiac, and would most certainly have lasted on through the whole night, if the conjurers had not at last removed their fingers from the glass…†   (source)
  • This epoch--these later years--took unto themselves a sudden elevation in turpitude, whose origin alone it is my present purpose to assign.†   (source)
  • But Dorothea remembered it to the last with the vividness with which we all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.†   (source)
  • In the course of his career he had come into contact with many of the most Liberal men of his epoch, both in Russia and abroad.†   (source)
  • In short, it praised the determined action of the Government as the acme of human wisdom and mercy, and exulted in the inauguration of an epoch of reasonable democracy free from the tyrannical fads of Socialism.†   (source)
  • And the more he worked in this cause, the more incontestable it seemed to him that it was a cause destined to assume vast dimensions, to create an epoch.†   (source)
  • [1] These animals belonged to a late geological period, the Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have no connection with the carboniferous vegetation.†   (source)
  • Amid frequent and thoughtful endeavors to remember; amid earnest struggles to regather some token of the state of seeming nothingness into which my soul had lapsed, there have been moments when I have dreamed of success; there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up remembrances which the lucid reason of a later epoch assures me could have had reference only to that condition of seeming unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • A little boy of five years old, in the premature manliness of the present epoch, threw in his playthings; a college graduate, his diploma; an apothecary, ruined by the spread of homeopathy, his whole stock of drugs and medicines; a physician, his library; a parson, his old sermons; and a fine gentleman of the old school, his code of manners, which he had formerly written down for the benefit of the next generation.†   (source)
  • Such epochs are transient, but very brilliant: they are fertile without exuberance, and animated without confusion.†   (source)
  • Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter— "You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs—and bodies?"†   (source)
  • Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs, and there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bagnet merely distinguishes that epoch in the musical instrument business by kissing the children with an extra smack before breakfast, smoking an additional pipe after dinner, and wondering towards evening what his poor old mother is thinking about it—a subject of infinite speculation, and rendered so by his mother having departed this life twenty years.†   (source)
  • The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.†   (source)
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its…†   (source)
  • Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms.†   (source)
  • In an instant he had cleared every obstacle away, and he saw successively the lock, placed between two padlocks, and the two handles at each end, all carved as things were carved at that epoch, when art rendered the commonest metals precious.†   (source)
  • And in some remote epoch, built up by volcanic disgorgings and successive layers of lava, who knows whether the peaks of these fire–belching mountains may reappear above the surface of the Atlantic!†   (source)
  • She recalled the small details, the words, tones, and looks, in the critical scenes which had opened a new epoch for her by giving her a deeper insight into the relations and trials of life, or which had called on her for some little effort of forbearance, or of painful adherence to an imagined or real duty—asking herself continually whether she had been in any respect blamable.†   (source)
  • But it was around the Pope of the Fools that all the musical riches of the epoch were displayed in a magnificent discord.†   (source)
  • Replace him to-morrow by an Academy of Letters and an Academy of Dramatic Poetry, and the new and enlarged filter will still exclude original and epoch-making work, whilst passing conventional, old-fashioned, and vulgar work without question.†   (source)
  • The circumstances leading to the change in Mr. Covey's course toward me form an epoch in my humble history.†   (source)
  • It ends an epoch and begins one.†   (source)
  • Tom, as I said, had never been so much like a girl in his life before, and at that epoch of irregular verbs his spirit was further depressed by a new means of mental development which had been thought of for him out of school hours.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Bazarov went into the village, and in his usual bantering tone entered into conversation with some peasant: 'Come,' he would say to him, 'expound your views on life to me, brother; you see, they say all the strength and future of Russia lies in your hands, a new epoch in history will be started by you—you give us our real language and our laws.'†   (source)
  • If I might make so bold as to defend that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises.†   (source)
  • Her illnesses were, after this epoch, of alarming character, and of more alarming recurrence, defying alike the knowledge and the great exertions of her physicians.†   (source)
  • Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.†   (source)
  • At the epoch at which the Christian religion appeared upon earth, Providence, by whom the world was doubtless prepared for its coming, had gathered a large portion of the human race, like an immense flock, under the sceptre of the Caesars.†   (source)
  • We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the epoch of the election of a President of the United States may be considered as a crisis in the affairs of the nation.†   (source)
  • Chapter XI In the Lane Maggie had been four days at her aunt Moss's giving the early June sunshine quite a new brightness in the care-dimmed eyes of that affectionate woman, and making an epoch for her cousins great and small, who were learning her words and actions by heart, as if she had been a transient avatar of perfect wisdom and beauty.†   (source)
  • They remained long without a single utterance, for no language could reach the level of their condition: words were as the rusty implements of a by-gone barbarous epoch, and only to be occasionally tolerated.†   (source)
  • Then he added, "Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty."†   (source)
  • I well remember that I considered it an epoch in my life when I visited it for the first time; after the fall of Napoleon, an event which opened the Continent to travellers.†   (source)
  • He did not wear the uniform cloak—which was not obligatory at that epoch of less liberty but more independence—but a cerulean-blue doublet, a little faded and worn, and over this a magnificent baldric, worked in gold, which shone like water ripples in the sun.†   (source)
  • I cannot better describe the sensation which oppressed me than by saying that I could with difficulty shake off the belief of my having been acquainted with the being who stood before me, at some epoch very long ago--some point of the past even infinitely remote.†   (source)
  • And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a brief moment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch, though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing more.†   (source)
  • The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.†   (source)
  • "The change," said Hammond, "which in these matters took place very early in our epoch, was most strangely rapid.†   (source)
  • The family of Colonel Pyncheon, at the epoch of his death, seemed destined to as fortunate a permanence as can anywise consist with the inherent instability of human affairs.†   (source)
  • I might add that those 'days' in the Bible must represent whole epochs and not literally the lapse of time between two sunrises, because according to the Bible itself, the sun doesn't date from the first day of Creation."†   (source)
  • In the course of a couple of hours the noble Refrigerator, at no time less than a hundred years behind the period, got about five centuries in arrears, and delivered solemn political oracles appropriate to that epoch.†   (source)
  • Although he had been much interested by Sergey Ivanovitch's views of the new epoch in history that would be created by the emancipation of forty millions of men of Slavonic race acting with Russia, a conception quite new to him, and although he was disturbed by uneasy wonder at being sent for by Kitty, as soon as he came out of the drawing room and was alone, his mind reverted at once to the thoughts of the morning.†   (source)
  • Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our last epoch—that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, seeking for it and believing in it, and seeking to serve it at once with all the strength of his soul, seeking for immediate action, and ready to sacrifice everything, life itself, for it.†   (source)
  • But there was another opinion, far less logical, prevalent amongst the rich people before the days of freedom, which did not die out at once after that epoch had begun.†   (source)
  • A party of leaden dragoons were galloping along one of the shelves, in equipments and uniform of modern cut; and there were some sugar figures, with no strong resemblance to the humanity of any epoch, but less unsatisfactorily representing our own fashions than those of a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • Now that she and the stranger had met, reality proved much more moving than anticipation, and Rosamond could not doubt that this was the great epoch of her life.†   (source)
  • The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.†   (source)
  • Chapter X Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected The startling object which thus made an epoch for uncle Pullet was no other than little Lucy, with one side of her person, from her small foot to her bonnet-crown, wet and discolored with mud, holding out two tiny blackened hands, and making a very piteous face.†   (source)
  • Democratic nations are at all times fond of equality, but there are certain epochs at which the passion they entertain for it swells to the height of fury.†   (source)
  • A judicial institution which obtains the suffrages of a great people for so long a series of ages, which is zealously renewed at every epoch of civilization, in all the climates of the earth and under every form of human government, cannot be contrary to the spirit of justice.†   (source)
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