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Example sentences for "ancient times"

  • The Last Supper" is painted on the dilapidated wall of what was a little chapel attached to the main church in ancient times, I suppose.

  • One portion of this noble old edifice is suggestive of the quaint fashions of ancient times.

  • The procession moved from the palace to the Forum or principal square of the city; where the consuls ascended their tribunal, and seated themselves in the curule chairs, which were framed after the fashion of ancient times.

  • The procession moved from the palace [87] to the Forum or principal square of the city; where the consuls ascended their tribunal, and seated themselves in the curule chairs, which were framed after the fashion of ancient times.

  • Queen Isabella), seems to have been common in ancient times.

  • In ancient times it was necessary to be either anvil or hammer; and in the final struggle between the victors victory remained with the Romans.

  • Bhishma said, 'In this connection, O Yudhishthira, is recited the narrative of the discourse that took place in ancient times between a Brahmana and Yama.

  • I have also heard that king Vitahavya in ancient times succeeded in obtaining the status of a Brahmana.

  • Once in ancient times, the celestial Rishi Narada, having roamed over all the world, met the Apsara Panchachuda of faultless beauty, having her abode in the region of Brahman.

  • Bhishma said, 'Hear, O monarch, how the royal sage Vitahavya of great celebrity succeeded in ancient times in acquiring the status of a Brahmana that is so difficult to attain and that is held in such high reverence by all the world.

  • Vipula had succeeded in protecting his preceptor's spouse in ancient times.

  • The common people of Greece and Rome, in ancient times made it an ordinary article of diet.

  • In ancient times, the Thracians made to bread from a flour made from the water coltran, a prickly root of triangular form.

  • Some of these facts do not show actual selection, but they show that the breeding of domestic animals was carefully attended to in ancient times, and is now attended to by the lowest savages.

  • It has been doubted whether these commodities were, all of them, the actual produce of the country in ancient times, and Herodotus has been in some degree discredited, but perhaps without sufficient reason.

  • The fertility of the soil was reckoned in ancient times to equal that of Egypt.

  • As in the battles of ancient times, the shades of the departed were sometimes seen among the combatants, so I thought I might manage to remedy the thinness of my ranks, by conjuring up a few dead and forgotten ephemerons to fill them.

  • The account which Macrobius gives of the downward journey of the Soul, through that gate of the zodiac which opens into the lower spheres, is a curious specimen of the wild fancies that passed for philosophy in ancient times.

  • It is possible for us to see now that these early Japanese scholars idealized their ancient history, and assigned to the Emperor a place in ancient times which in all probability he has seldom held.

  • In ancient times, this could only mean, "My clan-territory.

  • What was the fact in ancient times is the fact to-day.

  • What have I to do with the heroes or the monuments of ancient times?

  • In ancient times it was called Dioscori according to Pliny.

  • This place was called Emporium Avalite by Ptolemy, who describes it as a great mart in ancient times.

  • This man landed in the night near Malacca, and it is said that the garrison was alarmed and put on their guard by a flock of geese, as the capitol was in ancient times.

  • Memorials of ancient times, they both still stand unrivalled by anything the Western world has to show, if one except the Siberian Railway.

  • Prædial servitude was practised in ancient times, as it was in Europe in the Middle Ages, and in Russia till a recent day.

  • Look, too, at the Jews, famous in ancient times, Now scattered on the face of the earth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient and modern times; ancient authors; ancient castle; ancient church; ancient civilization; ancient date; ancient days; ancient glaciers; ancient history; ancient learning; ancient people; ancient pottery; ancient science; ancient sculpture; ancient time; ancient times; being slain; certain cases; demonstrative pronoun; devilish good; half inclined; hardly fair; leisure hours; opus operatum; public ownership; single star