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Example sentences for "classical times"

  • In the Romances of Chivalry, its destruction was always reserved for the worthiest knight; in classical times it was a terror.

  • Turning from the Orient, it is of interest to interrogate the Greek writers as to the creation schemes that were current in classical times.

  • Be that as it may, it was the scheme of cosmogony expressed in the Hebrew legends that was to become dominant in post-classical times, and to rule unchallenged in the Western world for more than a thousand years.

  • This is very absurd, yet nothing more rational was known of the subject in classical times.

  • For this relationship to be clear it will be necessary to review classical literary criticism and to trace its development in post-classical times and in the middle ages as well as in the Italian renaissance.

  • At the same time, numerous as portrait-statues were in Tuscany, they do not compare in numbers with those executed in classical times.

  • It had been used in classical times, though scarcely to the extent of Donatello, who drew in the marble.

  • In classical times the rubrica of Sinope was specially valued for its fine colour.

  • Owing to the irruption of Oriental ideas in the sixth century consequent on the sack of Antioch by the Persians and the conquests of Belisarius, splendour of material began to supersede the refinement of classical times.

  • The similarity of sound was the cause of its being for a long time associated with the Arrapakhitis of classical times; the tendency is now to recognise in it the country nearest to the ancient domain of the Chaldæans, i.

  • Neither of these formalities seems to have obtained generally in classical times.

  • The phrase nationes bracatae in classical times was a contemptuous expression for the Gauls in particular and barbarians in general.

  • But if the fare was rough, it was cheap and smacked of classical times, and our reception by the Paestani of to-day was most cordial.

  • In other cases, although the names given to the instruments are those of classical times, it is, to say the least, doubtful whether they are of the same form as the ancient instruments whose names they bear.

  • The bulk of the book consists of an attempt to reconstruct, in the manner described above, the different instruments used in classical times.

  • Like Gesner, he includes bibliographers who wrote in classical times.

  • Apollodorus and Claudius Ptolemy, Sententiae (also unpublished) are the only two bibliographers of classical times that he names.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolutely necessary; behoves thee; brother dear; classical antiquity; classical culture; classical literature; classical mythology; classical times; classical writers; distinguished family; each wagon; great salvation; heavy ordnance; interrupted the; life here; lower figure; melancholy tone; only they; play with; quality very; send for; small tree; taking occasion; think thou; trades union; well content