Periods

Examples

• Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her! Jane Austen. Emma.
• He infers that many species have kept true for long periods, whereas a few have become modified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There have been other periods of revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the earlier periods of the monarchy, the clergy of France appear to have been as much devoted to the pope as those of any other country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Habits easily become associated with other habits, with certain periods of time and states of the body. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such periods have recurred in history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the value of this evidence depends entirely on the perfection of the geological record, in relation to periods remote in the history of the world. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary level the record will generally be blank. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Did they have restaurants there at three different periods of the world? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From a very early age, however, there is no distinction of exclusive periods of play activity and work activity, but only one of emphasis. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The performance of this duty requires, too, very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sometimes she had periods of tight horror, when it seemed to her that her life would pass away, and be gone, without having been more than this. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Even in the Azoic or Arch?ozoic Age there are traces in ice-worn rocks and the like of periods of intense cold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is possible that in the past there have been periods of greater and lesser intensity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They have observed ninety-three different comets, and settled their periods with great exactness. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Activity is divided, and two separate worlds are built up, occupying activity at divided periods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And there have been periods of great wetness and periods of great dryness throughout the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And because of this conviction I have determined to write down the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Without the aid of artificial appliances a skilful diver may remain under water for two, or even three minutes; accounts of longer periods are doubtful or absurd. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At any rate we must admit that they hold a different place at different periods of the world's history. Plato. The Republic.
• In both the Greek and medieval periods, the rule was to regard the individual as a channel through which a universal and divine intelligence operated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It does not change in regular periods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To form a right judgment of it, indeed, we must compare the state of the country at periods somewhat distant from one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• How short his time, and consequently how poor will be his results, compared with those accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It will be convenient to distinguish two main periods in the hundred years between 1814 and 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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