On seeing this and other clumsy weapons which were so much in vogue in former times, we cannot be surprised that none of them have continued in use to the present day.
Drinking cups of a fantastic shape were very much in vogue in the sixteenth century.
The materials most in vogue are, white muslins with a coloured printed border chintz pattern, printed on purpose, in borders about an inch deep.
At no period in the history of the world was anything more absurd in head-dress worn than that here depicted, which was in vogue with the fashionables of 1782.
We here engrave a set of bandoliers, a species of weapon much in vogue about the close of the sixteenth century.
The instruments most invogue with our ancestors were three--the cucking-stool, the brank, and the tumbrel.
It is still in vogue in certain cases-- military officers, for instance, carry their handkerchiefs in their left sleeve.
He let me understudy Victoria Lafontaine, a young artist very much in vogue just then, who had the most delightful talent.
Their vogue is indicated by references to them in the works of Jane Austen, Thackeray and the first Lord Lytton, and more recently in one of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas.
Gwlad Morgan, later softened into Glamorgan, never had much vogue and meant precisely the same as Morganwg, though the two terms became differentiated a few centuries later.
As the majority are dated specimens, they have an educational value in representing the styles of heraldry and of ornamentation in vogue at the various periods during the last three centuries.
The French name the styles invogue at certain periods after their kings, as the style Henri IV.
When Huck is complaining to Tom of the rigorous system in vogue at the widow's, he says the servants harass him with all manner of compulsory decencies, and he winds up by saying: "and they comb me all to hell.
The libelous epithet perhaps came in vogue from the fact that hunting and trapping are apt to unfit a man for settled habits of industry.
The friendly kiss was likewise much in vogue in the Middle Ages.
The kiss of peace was in vogue in France down to the thirteenth century.
Kissing seems to have been much more in vogue with the Romans, amongst whom it was the usual custom for people to salute each other with a kiss on the hand, the cheek, or the mouth.
Eclecticism had definitely come into vogueto replace exclusive devotion to the Greek authors, and men were taking what was good wherever they found it.
It has been translated and has had a wide vogue in every language of modern Europe.
Their success was so great that it is not surprising that after a time the vogue of the Jewish physicians should have led to jealousy of them and to the passage of laws and decrees limiting their sphere of activity.
As if Furnival could have missed him, as if in the face of Wrackham's vogue his paper would have let him miss him.
In Greek literature it may he assumed to have been in vogue from the earliest times; actual examples have survived of the latter part of the 4th and beginning of the 3rd centuries B.
Analogous to the clay documents of western Asia are the tablets coated with wax in vogue among the Greeks and Romans, offering a surface not to be inscribed with the pen but to be scratched with the sharp pointed stilus.
This form is still in vogueas the modern printed book, and probably will never be superseded.
Idleness is not in vogue with any class of the whole community.
I have shown that according to the code of morality, that is in vogue among people whose Christianity and civilisation are unquestionable, a lie may sometimes be honourable.
It will be remembered that the only chastisement that was in vogue in the Krita age was the crying of 'Fie' on an offender.
His delicate pastel portraits obtained great vogue in the most aristocratic circles of London.
Blanc's writings had an immense vogueamong the workmen of Paris.
This poet was the Russian spokesman of the so-called Weltschmerz (world-sorrow) which had come into vogue with the "Sorrows of Werther.
Unlike Shelley, he attained thereby the vogue of the forbidden.
The one which has been invogue thus far has been the textbook method, in which the principles of law of interest to the business man are set forth.
Chinese poetry was as much in vogue among the courtiers as ever.
The first reform was the initiation of the period name, a custom which, in China, had been in vogue since the Han dynasty.
The tea-ceremony and the flower-trimming, two fashionable pastimes already in vogue at that time, were eagerly practised here by wealthy merchants.
Subsequently the Tessera, or cubical die, similar to that now used, came into vogue (samples of which may be seen in Case N.
What charming Bedfellows and Companions for Life, are Men likely to meet with, that chuse their Wives out of such Women of Vogue and Fashion?
This is only one of many similar eccentric methods in vogue amongst these people.
I slept fairly well through my first night in the African bush, having previously learnt to lie perfectly straight and still on the narrow camp bedsteads that are everywhere in vogue in Togo.
Whist was not much in vogue until a later period, and was far too abstruse and slow to suit the depraved taste which required unadulterated stimulants.
The "water-cure" operation, in vogue for awhile all over the Islands, proved fatal in many cases.
For the same reason, classical music is very little in vogue among the Philippine people, who prefer dance pieces and ballad accompaniments.
Throughout the work, the author expresses the highest admiration of the military science of the ancient Romans, and the greatest contempt for the maxims which had been in vogue amongst the Italian commanders of the preceding generation.
The vulgar notion about Bacon we take to be this, that he invented a new method of arriving at truth, which method is called Induction, and that he detected some fallacy in the syllogistic reasoning which had been in vogue before his time.
I have told of the initial vogue of burlesque at the Royalty and the Strand.
This vogue was later to bring fortune to a larger and more luxurious theatre, the Gaiety, under Nellie Farren, as the successor to Mrs. Bancroft, whose former roles she vulgarised to a remarkable degree.
However, thevogue of the piece was inexhaustible, and such was the taste of the public, that two or three other actors attracted their attention more than Irving.
