Traditions

Examples

• Nor any traditions of one? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its hoary traditions make it an object of absorbing interest to even the most careless stranger, and thus far it had interest for me; but no further. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My mother would be very proud could she only know how well I have maintained the traditions of my father's prowess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He disregarded all social traditions, and drew his officers from every class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The priest is not generally a man of much learning; he knows, however, the traditions of his faith. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They developed mental dispositions and traditions and attitudes of thought one to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Travel and experience mar the grandest pictures and rob us of the most cherished traditions of our boyhood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These regions, as we have seen, fell for long ages under the sway of the Oriental type of monarchy and of Oriental religious traditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Each province clung to its separate nationality and traditions, and the Huns spread from province to province. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• True individualism is a product of the relaxation of the grip of the authority of custom and traditions as standards of belief. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was an Italian, hostile to the French, and full of a sense of the great traditions and mission of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A connecting link is found in the stories, traditions, songs, and liturgies which accompany the doings and rites of a primitive social group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Women just like Dorothea had not entered into his traditions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And the East is fertilized continually by European traditions: that stream of immigration brings with it a thousand unforeseeable possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This state of affairs explains many things in our historic educational traditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ancient races had the instruments, but their voices, except as they existed in the traditions of their gods, were not harmonious. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• True to the best English traditions, the Congress documented its attitude by a Declaration of Rights. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By the treaty of Adrianople (1829) Greece was declared free, but she was not permitted to resume her ancient republican traditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With all his faults, Trenor had the safeguard of his traditions, and was the less likely to overstep them because they were so purely instinctive. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And was not the new education an enemy to good citizenship, because it set up a rival standard to the established traditions of the community? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reverence for the hallowed Past and its traditions keeps the dismal fashion in force now that the compulsion exists no longer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She is what we call in England a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of traditions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Clearly the old traditions of Sassanid Persia and of Persia before the Greeks were returning to the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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