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Example sentences for "earlier days"

  • Prosperity mended her querulous mood and made her too busy to remember the grievances of earlier days.

  • In earlier days, in the time of Charles the Fifth, Alva had passed some time both in Germany and in the Netherlands, and had left there no favorable impression of his character.

  • In short, the place was one which, in earlier days, from the strength of its works as well as its natural position, might have embarrassed an army more formidable than that which now lay before it.

  • But nature lies deeper than manner; and when Philip returned, on his father's abdication, to assume the sovereignty of the Netherlands, he wore the same frigid exterior as in earlier days.

  • The austerity and self-denial of earlier days formed a strong contrast to the pomp of his present establishment and the profuse luxury of his table.

  • In earlier days, Kemble was accustomed to be with the first of gentlemen.

  • But Matilda's attractions had won the heart of a young man in the North, one who had known her in Baltimore in earlier days, and this lover was willing to make desperate efforts to rescue her from her perilous situation.

  • The honest, open-hearted fellow, who, in earlier days, did not know the meaning of calculation!

  • Had he been the calm and collected man of earlier days, he would not have spoken, at least not at this hour and this place; he would have spared in Cecilia, the woman.

  • My own experiences of the social life of London, as I knew it in my earlier days, will perhaps best be described in more general terms.

  • In earlier days it could be reached only by a boat, for a couple of miles of salt water lay between the city and the marshy border of the Paduan delta.

  • Dismissing these bear stories, some persons may yet be interested to learn of the presence here, in earlier days, of the ferocious wild boar.

  • Speaking of druggists, it may be interesting to add that medicines were administered in earlier days to a much greater extent than now.

  • In earlier days, or from 1813, Don Antonio lived on the San Antonio Ranch near what is now Compton; and so well did he prosper there that eleven leagues were not enough for the support of his cattle and flocks.

  • The Romans had always been weak at sea, and they were weaker now than they had been in earlier days.

  • The fact was, that the mass of the people now looked to the king instead of to the Church for protection, and therefore respected the clergy less than they had done in earlier days.

  • By this time a Chancellor was no longer what he had been in earlier days (see p.

  • Suggestion, for example, acting upon the mutual relations of body and mind, was recognized by the theologian as a force sufficient to produce phenomena which in earlier days he had claimed as evidently supernatural.

  • In earlier days--a friend will not deceive thee.

  • Surely I never heard--yet it were well Had I but heard it with its thrilling tones In earlier days!

  • The work is a hasty and unrevised production of its author's earlier days of literary labor; and, beyond the scenes already known, scarcely calculated to enhance his reputation.

  • In one corner, however, we espy a queer little organ of primitive type, with unenclosed pipes and keyboard, not unlike the spinet of earlier days.

  • Still, when he can, he loves to step aside And be the boy, without a check or guide; In the old wanderings he with pleasure strays, And reassumes the bliss of earlier days.

  • Luther was following the “more rigorous” theologians of earlier days, who had taught that it was “a mortal sin for the penitent to reveal what the priest had told him.

  • It would be superfluous to enumerate in detail the other points of theology on which he set himself to oppose the Catholic teaching he had himself in earlier days advocated, sometimes on excellent grounds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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