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Example sentences for "later period"

  • At a later period, as rector of St. Giles in the Fields, and Friday lecturer at St. Lawrence Jewry, he gained much fame as one of the most persuasive and affecting preachers of his age.

  • At a later period, when Presbyterianism had for the time gained strong ground in England, the attitude had become somewhat reversed.

  • Nelson, almost immediately after receiving this opinion, decided on abandoning the national communion, though he took a different and a wiser view at a later period.

  • He affirmed that 'he wrote his book to defend Christianity, and prayed that God would give him grace to vindicate religion,' and at a later period he published his creed in terms that would satisfy the most orthodox Christian.

  • When, however, at a later period, it was mixed with sugar, it met with more approbation.

  • This is the one that the Romans wanted to cut down at a later period, as we shall see, and had great difficulty in destroying.

  • The nation itself, far from suffering from Napoleon's fall, regained something of the spontaneous energy so rich in 1789, so wanting at a later period.

  • In ordinary cases they held up their hands, voting openly; but at a later period, in cases where intimidation was possible, such as in the offences of men of power and authority, they voted in secret.

  • I am the state," said Louis at a later period of his career.

  • Obscure men, whose sole capital was their enormous impudence, invented similar schemes, promised similar advantages, and used similar arts to entice the capitalists, which were employed with so much success at a later period.

  • He was called Jean le Rond from the church near which he was found; the surname Alembert was added by himself at a later period.

  • These qualities were particularly manifested at a later period---as, for example, during his term as president.

  • Though at a later period, as the result of general cultural tendencies, the traditional Jewish costume made way in certain sections of Jewry for the European form of dress, it was not in obedience to police measures, but in spite of them.

  • This terrible secret was revealed to the world at a later period by the few survivors among these martyred Jewish children.

  • Only at a later period, during the reign of Alexander II.

  • The political movements in Russian Jewry were yet in an embryonic stage, and their rise and development were reserved for a later period.

  • At a later period, the arms of David and of his immediate successor carried the boundaries of the kingdom to the Euphrates and Orontes on the one hand, an in an opposite direction to the remotest confines of Edom and Moab.

  • These sentiments, although applied to a later period, are beautifully expressed by a modern poet, to whom was granted no small share of the pathetic eloquence of the prophetic bard whose words have just been quoted.

  • From these notices, however, which respect a later period, we return to the more primitive times immediately succeeding the era of the commonwealth.

  • At a later period my wife became initiated into the principles and tendencies of English painting, and then she began to enjoy it.

  • On the security of this fund a million was to be raised by a lottery, but a lottery which had scarcely any thing but the name in common with the lotteries of a later period.

  • So ill informed were the numerous writers who, at a later period, ascribed to the national debt the existence of stockjobbing and of all the immoralities connected with stockjobbing.

  • But some of the details, both of that Act and of a supplementary Act which was passed at a later period of the session, seem to prove that Montague had not fully considered what legislation can, and what it cannot, effect.

  • It was often asserted at a later period by Tories, who hated the national debt most of all things, and who hated Burnet most of all men, that Burnet was the person who first advised the government to contract a national debt.

  • It was left for Desborough to avow, at a later period, that he had been the murderer; and with what startling effect on him, to whom the admission was exultingly made, we have already seen.

  • At a later period, Marcus Scaurus surrounded his atrium with a colonnade of black marble rising thirty-eight feet above the soil.

  • He himself set forth his reasoning upon it, at a later period, in one of his inimitable letters.

  • At a later period I took away the dog with me from Paris, and kept it many years, as a loving and faithful memento of those days of solitude.

  • My approval of his creed, of which I knew nothing, was at that time a concession to my love; at a later period it would have been an homage rendered to his virtues.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before described; distinct race; fatigue duty; human figure; later addition; later ages; later chapter; later date; later development; later editions; later hand; later known; later lecture; later letter; later point; later stage; later times; later works; later writers; later years; lateral view; matter much; national banks; none local long form; sank down; specie payment