Generations

Examples

• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I however learned from it that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Thus we have seen how the birth of ideas of former generations has given rise in the present age to children of a larger growth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For three generations the Pasteurs had been tanners in the Jura, and they natur ally adhered to that portion of the population which hailed the Revolution as a deliverance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Common men cannot shirk world politics and at the same time enjoy private freedom; but it has taken them countless generations to learn this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This publication cannot fail to produce the greatest moral effect on the present and future generations. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Five generations of my race sleep under the aisles of Briarfield Church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Early men, three or four hundred generations ago, had brains very like our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In successive generations a great development both of bodily and mental qualities might be possible. Plato. The Republic.
• And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It ought to be good, he replied, it has been the work of many generations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• So it is with hybrids, for their offspring in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If, then, these two varieties be variable, the most divergent of their variations will generally be preserved during the next thousand generations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is polished with the kisses of many generations of worshiping pilgrims. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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