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Example sentences for "chronicles"

Lexicographically close words:
chronically; chronicle; chronicled; chronicler; chroniclers; chronicling; chronogram; chronograms; chronograph; chronographers
  1. The chronicles and fragments of chronicles which I have collected here are all taken from the various "Books of Chilan Balam.

  2. But their favorite compositions were works similar to those to which their forefathers had been partial, prophecies, chronicles and medical treatises.

  3. His chronicles were many, and on a great variety of subjects.

  4. Turner, Chronicles of the Bank of England (1897); T.

  5. The Scots village tale was no novelty in literature--witness John Gait, the Chronicles of Carlingford and George MacDonald.

  6. In the time of Elizabeth the stage was recognised as one of the principal vehicles for the reflection of opinion concerning matters of public interest; the players being, in Shakespeare's phrase, "the abstract and brief chronicles of the time.

  7. Morris devoured greedily all manner of mediaeval chronicles and romances, French and English; but he read little in Elizabethan and later authors.

  8. Footnote 388: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate.

  9. Footnote 441: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate.

  10. Footnote 225: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate.

  11. Footnote 2: Ten of Scott's twenty-seven novels (counting the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate as one) have scenes laid in the eighteenth century.

  12. The names of the counts of Tonnerre and Auxerre appear frequently in the historical chronicles of their time, but references to their doings lead one to think that they chiefly idled their time away at Paris.

  13. Just then Gonzalo appeared, followed by his sons Pero, Diego, Fernando, and another, whose name the Chronicles do not give.

  14. The chronicles do not give much information on this occasion, as on many others, as to the actions of our hero.

  15. Sidenote: John White's The Planter's Plea, in Young's Chronicles of Mass.

  16. Our Oxford chronicles record his expressed intention both to reform the statutes of the University, and also to found an establishment within the castle walls, (p.

  17. The notice in Chronicles implies that they formed part of the Jewish community of the Restoration.

  18. The statement in Chronicles that the father of the house of Rechab was Hemath perhaps points to their having been at one time settled at some place called Hemath near Jabez in Judah.

  19. According to Chronicles Jehoiachin was only eight, but all our data indicate that Kings is right.

  20. Colonel William Wood has avoided this flaw in his War with the United States (1915) which was published as a volume of the Chronicles of Canada series.

  21. Footnote 1: See Jefferson and His Colleagues, by Allen Johnson (in The Chronicles of America).

  22. The origin of his greatness, common enough in the scandalous chronicles of courts, seems strangely out of place in a hagiology.

  23. Essex added a yet sadder and more fearful story to the bloody chronicles of the Tower.

  24. His political life is written in the chronicles of his country.

  25. From notes of time in Chronicles it is seen that some at least of the encounters took place after the war with the children of Ammon.

  26. But in Chronicles it is said that Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel.

  27. Originally, they seem to have formed parts of a record of David's wars, and to have been transferred to the Books of Samuel and Chronicles in order to give a measure of completeness to the narrative.

  28. The narrative in Chronicles is substantially the same as that in Samuel, but the text is purer.

  29. The first was with a man who is called Ishbi-benob, but there is reason to suspect that the text is corrupt here, and in Chronicles this incident is not mentioned.

  30. The discrepancy is not easily accounted for; but probably in Chronicles in the number for Israel certain bodies of troops were included which were not included in Samuel, and vice versa in the case of Judah.

  31. The first of the first rank, whom the Chronicles call Jashobeam, lifted up his spear against three hundred slain at one time.

  32. The parallel passage in Chronicles gives a thousand talents of silver as the cost of the first bargain with the Syrians.

  33. The English chronicles have accurately fixed for us the date of the first raid of the Northmen.

  34. Wessex itself was no longer secure from their incursions, and the chronicles record several disastrous raids carried out on its coast.

  35. The Books of Kings and Chronicles give us, as it were, the history of a nation from God's point of view.

  36. Amongst the ancient manuscripts kept in the British Museum are old old copies of Homer's War poems, and here also are stored the precious fragments of the chronicles of that other great Greek writer--St. Luke.

  37. Ancient Polish chronicles relate concerning him, that after the tragical catastrophe of Popiel II.

  38. Footnote 77: Besides the hints which may be gathered from chronicles and ecclesiastical history, Zosimus (l.

  39. Footnote 12: See the Chronicles of Prosper and Idatius.

  40. Chronicles of Marcellinus and Idatius, seem to suppose, that the Goths did not carry away Placidia till after the last siege of Rome.

  41. Samuel, which is noticed in all the chronicles of the times.

  42. Chronicles of Prosper Tyro, Prosper of Aquitain, Idatius, and Marcellinus.

  43. The old Hungarian chronicles unanimously derived them from the Huns of Attila See note, vol.

  44. His adventures in Constantinople, in Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and Africa, are faintly marked in the Chronicles of Marcellinus and Idatius.

  45. Chronicles of Idatius, Prosper, Marcellinus, and Theophanes, under the proper year.

  46. Footnote 37: See the Chronicles of Idatius, Isidore, Prosper, and Marcellinus.

  47. Chronicles of Idatius, Isidore, and the two Prospers.

  48. It will appear, by comparing the three short chronicles of the times, that Marcellinus had fought near Carthage, and was killed in Sicily.

  49. In various circumstances of the life of Marcellinus, it is not easy to reconcile the Greek historian with the Latin Chronicles of the times.

  50. Chronicles of Idatius, and the two Prospers, inserted in the historians of France, tom.

  51. Kossuth pored over the chronicles and annals which narrate the incidents of this contest, till he was master of all the minutest details.

  52. A series of chronicles appeared in a few years, which are unparalleled in Europe at the time.

  53. The foundation of the kingdom of Edessa is placed by native chronicles in 620 (IV.

  54. I have examined all the authentic chronicles and letters written by Spanish authors, contemporary with Boabdil; some of whom were in the confidence of the Catholic sovereigns, and actually present in the camp throughout the war.

  55. Delving in the rich ore" of the old chronicles in the Jesuits' Library of St. Isidoro, there was one side issue in the history he was studying that enchanted him above all else.


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    Other words:
    adventure; annals; autobiography; biography; chronicle; chronology; confessions; diary; fortune; history; journal; legend; life; memoir; memorial; necrology; obituary; profile; record; resume; roll; story