Stages

Examples

• Even in 1847 few of these things had lost their novelty, most of them were in the earlier stages of development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I will assume that we possess (what we have certainly not got) money enough to carry this inquiry on through all its stages. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Sometimes it is only the earlier developmental stages which fail. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The individual develops, but his proper development consists in repeating in orderly stages the past evolution of animal life and human history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Through all his stages, Mr. Jaggers followed him with the same strange interest. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The lower mosses must live in damp, and even the development of the spore of the ferns demands at certain stages extreme wetness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, at some stages, said Lydgate, lifting his brows and smiling, while he began to arrange his microscope. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The various stages are represented diagrammatically by Figure 133. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now a vital relationship can be observed not only among different stages of the same science, but als o among the different sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In all stages of its transit of the canal the vessel must have on board a government pilot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But in no respect is it a strict traversing of past stages. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The horses in the stages that were going out, and had come through the city, were smoking so, that the outside passengers were invisible. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You'll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by asking at both Departments till they tell you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But in the earlier stages of learning at least they are practically all-important. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was no good--he too was without unity, without MIND, in the ultimate stages of living; not quite man enough to make a destiny for a woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There are many stages of pure degradation to go through: agelong. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At the present time (1910) the Edison storage-battery enterprise is in its early stages of growth, and its status may be compared with that of the electric-light system about the year 1881. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were no stages out, and we could not get on the pier from the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A bayou runs irregularly across this low land, the bottom of which, however, is above the surface of the Big Black at ordinary stages. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are thirty-six stages in the evolution of a plain steel knife. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The curious case of Sitaris--a beetle which passes through certain unusual stages of development--will illustrate how this might occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner, and its consequences. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Arch?ologists distinguish at present three chief stages in the history of these newer Pal?olithic men in Europe, and we must name these stages here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The present is one of those momentous stages in the life of man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The two next stages in the decline of constitutions have even less historical foundation. Plato. The Republic.
• The summit of the tower was reached by staircases containing 1,793 steps, and by hydraulic elevators running in four stages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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