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Example sentences for "passing events"

  • Thus said Iahvah: This is the thought of the Eternal, this is His judgment upon present conditions and passing events, whatever your thought and your judgment may happen or incline to be!

  • They commend the high tone of their moral teachings, but consider their forecasts of the future and interpretations of passing events, as erroneous deductions from their general views of the Divine nature.

  • We must prepare ourselves with some knowledge of the circumstances of the time, and we must form some general conception of the ideas and aims of the inspired writer, both in themselves, and in their relation to passing events.

  • The paper which collects the earliest and most complete intelligence of passing events is the most successful.

  • Yet he did not sit down, an idle man and indifferent spectator of passing events.

  • Mr. Morris took a deep interest in passing events--at first only as an adviser.

  • He possessed an active mind and was a close observer of passing events.

  • He had not been an idle spectator or careless observer of passing events or of subjects discussed.

  • It is probable that they represented Bacchus himself or his messengers, that they came forward and narrated his perils and escapes, and that the chorus then expressed their feeling, as at passing events.

  • In proportion as this ensues, the mind's interest in passing events is likely to fail, for what is no longer clearly apprehended no longer awakens the same interest and attention as formerly.

  • He is unobservant of passing events, because he neither clearly apprehends them, now that his connection with the outer world is in a measure interrupted by the decay of sense, nor does he much care about them, for the same reason.

  • We lose sight of the me, and, of course, of the relation of the me, to passing events, and therefore lose the sense of time.

  • Some allusion was made to passing events and to the expected measure, when Melbourne suddenly broke out, 'Ma'am, it is a damned dishonest act.

  • They shared in the animation of passing events, and were roused by the storm which shook the world; but they did not reach the secret caves whence the whirlwind issued, nor perceive what spirit had let loose the tempest upon the earth.

  • How indeed could I, when I was to borrow so little from the influence of passing Events, and absolutely excluded from my plan all appeals to personal curiosity and personal interests?

  • It was generally believed, nevertheless, that the temporary calm upon the surface would be of short duration, and the growing storm upon the horizon, gave a warning to all who were interested in passing events, to set their house in order.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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