Histories

Examples

• He observes on a number of histories of whirlwinds, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Of much that looms large in our national histories we cannot tell anything. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We all have histories. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There are probably two or three concurrent and only roughly similar histories of these newer Pal?olithic men as yet, inextricably mixed up together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• How great a part the desolating loneliness of a city plays in seductions the individual histories in the report show. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In a week a pile of the Histories was printed and bound, and ready to be sold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were plots, there were insurrections; they lie flat and colourless now in the histories like dead flowers in an old book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• More vividly than all the written histories, the Coliseum tells the story of Rome's grandeur and Rome's decay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I read the histories of Greece and Rome, and of England's former periods, and I watched the movements of the lady of my heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nearly all the histories, nearly all the political literature of the last two centuries in Europe, have been written in its phraseology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The evidence of a bitter hostility between mother and father peeps out in many little things in the histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is it not plain, from this, that the histories of Emmeline and Cassy may have many counterparts? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The old man walked very slowly and told a number of ancient histories about himself and his poor Bessy, his former prosperity, and his bankruptcy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These bards were living books, man-histories, guardians and makers of a new and more powerful tradition in human life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Clermont as originally built was quite a different looking boat from that usually given in the histories. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the English histories this struggle with France is too often represented as a single-handed and almost successful attempt to conquer France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Foreign offices are, so to speak, the leading characters in all the histories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The histories of the abandoned Detroit and Hudson river tunnels are object lessons of the difficulties encountered in this class of work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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