Late Sentence Examples

late
  • It's late, and I'm tired.

    363
    155
  • It's not too late to change your mind.

    276
    136
  • But you'll be late for dinner.

    156
    84
  • It's late and I have to get up early tomorrow.

    152
    92
  • It was late day-three by our calculations when we broke through.

    151
    101
  • It was getting late and the air was taking on a chill.

    58
    40
  • Wildlife hid behind that wall of green, but it was too late in the day for them to be hopping out on the road.

    50
    33
  • Late in the afternoon, we tried something different.

    61
    44
  • I didn't mean to make you late for your appointment.

    29
    16
  • I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

    25
    16
    Advertisement
  • If you rescue him, you'll be late for a movie, or a ballgame or dinner.

    28
    19
  • She asked "Yeah. We had some late visitors."

    38
    31
  • Daniel Brennan offered an opportunity in late February.

    27
    20
  • We were late for work but in a great mood when we finally arrived.

    26
    19
  • He left early each Friday afternoon, often returning late on Monday morning.

    9
    3
    Advertisement
  • Martha had asked to come in late as baby Clair had a bad night.

    29
    23
  • Too late and they'd be sloppy drunk.

    6
    0
  • He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed 'the King of Prussia.'

    12
    6
  • Kind of late for a walk, isn't it?

    22
    17
  • Sorry to bop in so late.

    5
    0
    Advertisement
  • The realization came slow and late, but clear.

    11
    7
  • I was about to call them, it was so late and you hadn't come home.

    8
    4
  • Mrs. Lincoln sauntered into the room, blinking her eyes at the late hour, and Fred reached down and picked her up with one arm, taking a beer from Dean with the other.

    5
    1
  • She hesitated then exited the car and shivered in the late night breeze.

    7
    4
  • Dean bit his lip, assuming the little woman was about to complain about Gladys Turnbull's late night writing, but she had other concerns.

    3
    0
    Advertisement
  • Dean brushed off a white cloud of flour and greeted a well-dressed, good-looking man in his late forties standing in the hall.

    3
    0
  • In the late seventies and early eighties scaling these challenging surfaces really caught on.

    3
    0
  • When the stream became visible, the flow was light, a far cry from the raging torrent Dean remembered from late spring when the melting snow increased the flow of the Uncompahgre a hundred fold.

    3
    0
  • Plus, Janet is either late or missing, Fred never even came home last night, I don't think I made enough breakfast rolls, and there's a stack of luggage in the hall.

    3
    0
  • I cook, but mostly toast and tea, and soup in the late afternoon.

    3
    0
  • Gladys Turnbull was sleeping late, as usual.

    4
    1
  • Oh my gosh, it's so late.

    3
    0
  • It's not too late for you to start a family, you know.

    3
    0
  • Was it too late?

    3
    0
  • Even so, Brady and his team had arrived too late.

    3
    0
  • He assumed Cynthia Byrne was a few minutes late, but when he descended the stairs, there she sat, opposite Fred O'Connor, who was decked out in an elegant blue pinstripe suit complete with pocket handkerchief and bow tie.

    3
    0
  • After apologizing for the late hour, she again thanked him for a great day.

    4
    1
  • I must be late.

    3
    0
  • The god was originally a stranger, taken into the kin by a rite of blood brotherhood, and this constitutes the dark point of the theory; for Robertson Smith regards the blood bond as relatively late; hence we do not see how the god became associated with the kin.

    4
    1
  • It takes time for me to establish motion and I got a late start.

    8
    6
  • Then he added with a smile in his voice, You two are working late together.

    9
    7
  • It was too late for him to know.

    4
    2
  • This wasn't planned, and her appearance was almost too late.

    2
    0
  • His reinforcements would come too late; he had one choice to save his planet.

    2
    0
  • They'd been right to use force over reason with the Council, a lesson he'd learned almost too late.

    2
    0
  • She hadn't realized what she felt for him until it was too late to tell him.

    2
    0
  • A little late to matter, Kiera said with a shrug.

    2
    0
  • The dispute on the latter point between Fermat and Descartes was continued, even after the philosopher's death, as late as 1662.

    2
    0
  • One night the king sat up very late, writing letters and sending messages; and the little page was kept busy running on errands until past midnight.

    6
    4
  • We're already late getting started on account of him and the saddle bum will probably use up another half-hour of daylight eating our food.

    14
    13
  • Isn't it a little late to start worrying about that sort of thing?

    7
    6
  • I should have thought about it before, but it's never too late to stop doing something you know is wrong.

    5
    4
  • It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of time to kill as Howie wasn't schedule to return to the house until late afternoon.

    7
    6
  • I want to help before it's too late, like with the little boy.

    5
    4
  • He was frozen to move toward her, knowing in his heart it was too late.

    1
    0
  • Late October was a little slow.

    2
    1
  • So were early autumn frosts and late spring freezes.

    1
    0
  • Fred was absent when they arrived home, but returned just as Cynthia was cutting a warmed apple pie for a late afternoon snack.

    1
    0
  • As he answered the late night call, he glanced up the staircase to see Edith in the hall above, a specter in her antique dress, a look of alarm on her face.

    1
    0
  • I realize it's late out there but I'm verifying one of your guests.

    1
    0
  • Cynthia had received a phone call from the Boston sisters telling her their flight was delayed and they weren't now expected until late afternoon.

    1
    0
  • Just then, the high point of excitement of the late afternoon was orchestrated by Mrs. Lincoln, Dean's cat, who had emigrated with him from Pennsylvania.

    1
    0
  • She didn't even mention being too late to take him to dinner.

    1
    0
  • The bearded man was younger looking than Dean had thought when he first saw him drive by Bird Song, probably no more than late twenties.

    1
    0
  • Janet was late again and Cynthia's bedside attempt to call her mother in Indiana resulted in unanswered rings, causing her further concern.

    1
    0
  • Before he could answer, the bedside telephone shrilled, its shocking ring penetrating the late night stillness.

    1
    0
  • For seconds he was frozen to move toward her, knowing in his heart it was too late.

    1
    0
  • But he was too late for even that.

    1
    0
  • He filled Fred in on the details of Edith's visit and Cynthia's late night phone call and the abrupt end to the conversation.

    1
    0
  • Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.

    1
    0
  • He could feel her tense against him as he explained in detail the late night suicide and the termination of the police investigation.

    1
    0
  • Dean said, "What brings you out so late?"

    1
    0
  • She confided it to her husband late one night, awakening him from his sleep as Edith Shipton had just awakened him but a week before.

    1
    0
  • But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.

    1
    0
  • Unfortunately, Jackson realized too late that Cassandra was a crazy bitch, and needy as hell.

    1
    0
  • It isn't like her to be so late and not call.

    1
    0
  • Spring will be too late to witness the kidding.

    1
    0
  • Don't you think it's a little late to back out now?

    1
    0
  • It was too late to change her mind now - and what difference did it make why Alex was coming?

    1
    0
  • Now was not the time to be in the barn alone with him this late at night.

    1
    0
  • Too late she realized she was going to faint.

    1
    0
  • She saw it coming too late, and he had her pinned to the floor on her back before she could squirm away.

    1
    0
  • Late Friday evening she was returning from the barn when he drove into the yard in a white Dodge Ram Pick up.

    1
    0
  • Too late, she realized what he would think.

    1
    0
  • This very moment she would choose Alex - but what about twenty years from now, when it was too late to have children?

    1
    0
  • A minute more, and he'd have been too late.

    1
    0
  • They grabbed food from the small cafeteria that was devoid of people at the late hour of morning.

    1
    0
  • And now, it might be too late to make things right.

    1
    0
  • It's late.  Go get some rest.

    1
    0
  • I'm always late, but I always show.

    1
    0
  • In truth, it might not have altered my decision, but it's a little late for holding millennia-old grudges, Kris explained.

    2
    1
  • A scattering of cars dotted the parking lot but due to the late hour the avenue beyond was nearly devoid of traffic.

    1
    0
  • Both were in their late 30's, losing their hair, gaining a mid-section and happily married.

    1
    0
  • Dean had hoped to make it as soon as possible so he could beat the worst of the late afternoon traffic when he returned from his chores in Philadelphia.

    1
    0
  • Does swimming alone late at night strike you as in character for Byrne?

    1
    0
  • The late spring sun had finally fought its way out of the white haze and was slipping down in the west, painting the countryside in yellow brush strokes.

    1
    0
  • Most trips commenced early in the week if the destination was closer, and Byrne was home by late Wednesday or Thursday.

    1
    0
  • The late night storm had blown Wednesday's hazy whiteness east to New Jersey and the Atlantic beyond, leaving in its place a high pressure system, a sky painted deep blue and patched with just enough puffy clouds for contrast.

    1
    0
  • The late afternoon was delightful as he wound his way through the city streets north of town.

    1
    0
  • I'm used to planes being late more often than on time.

    1
    0
  • According to Byrne's expense file, his prior trip to Norfolk had been in late January and, earlier, in October of last year.

    1
    0
  • As Dean looked for a place to park, he noticed a late model Chevrolet with a rental sticker on the rear bumper parked across the street.

    1
    0
  • Mrs. Lincoln hopped up, stretching her lan­guid body and yawning, as if wondering why these two idiots were keeping such late hours.

    1
    0
  • After a late lunch on the run, Dean spent most of the after­noon interviewing a burglary victim only three blocks from his Collingswood Avenue home.

    1
    0
  • At first he paid a few days late but I had a little talk with him and he's straight­ened out nicely.

    1
    0
  • It was too late to get a non-stop flight so I have you going out of Allentown and changing planes in Baltimore.

    2
    1
  • How come you're up this late?

    2
    1
  • Sighing deeply, he told Rita he was finished for the day, jogged down the stairs to his car, and fought the late afternoon crosstown traffic to Ethel Rosewater's office.

    2
    1
  • She grabbed the closest object, a brass paperweight, and hurled it at him, bouncing it off a picture of her shaking hands with the late governor, sending glass flying.

    2
    1
  • Fred went on to explain that a maroon late model car was wait­ing at the end of the driveway leading into Gruber's place.

    2
    1
  • In spite of the late hour, the lights at 422 Collingswood Avenue were still ablaze.

    2
    1
  • When it was too late for you to do something about it—about now.

    1
    0
  • In spite of gaining two hours with the time change, it was still late when the cross-coun­try travelers finally bedded down in a quiet motel in Golden, Colorado, after a shared ride from the Denver airport.

    1
    0
  • Except for his army hitch and a few late night military flights, Dean had never been west of the Mississippi and he'd never seen scenery as spec­tacular as Colorado in late spring.

    1
    0
  • Surprisingly, many of the speedier bikers were already there, looking as if they'd spent the day loafing in the late spring sun.

    1
    0
  • It was only late afternoon and if Dean was right, he had plen­ty of time to find his prey.

    1
    0
  • He was going to say, "for the late innings," but thought better of it.

    1
    0
  • You'll be late getting back to work.

    1
    0
  • Alex said he was going to work late tonight and then they would go out for dinner.

    2
    1
  • I thought you were going to work late today.

    1
    0
  • Because after we're married, it will be too late for him to try to stake a claim.

    1
    0
  • By the time he brought her back to Katie and Bill's, it was late and the lights in the house were off.

    1
    0
  • It wasn't too late to start a different career.

    1
    0
  • I'd say it was a little late.

    1
    0
  • The hot days of summer were blown away by the chill of late September.

    1
    0
  • He's working a little late tonight, but he should be home any minute now.

    1
    0
  • A rare late October snowstorm only visited a half day and the snow didn't stay on the ground long, but it made a serious statement.

    1
    0
  • She was over two weeks late for her menstrual cycle and felt a little nauseous.

    1
    0
  • Have you ever been late before?

    1
    0
  • If you're late enough to be concerned about pregnancy, you need to see the doctor.

    1
    0
  • I just don't want you to get your hopes up every time you're a day late.

    1
    0
  • It was too late to heat up the oven and bake the chicken, so she cut it up and fried it.

    1
    0
  • And then, all those times when she had come home late, talking about the babies.

    1
    0
  • Carmen would have supper ready and he didn't want to be late.

    1
    0
  • She has to work late.

    1
    0
  • I've got a flight into Dallas tomorrow — well, actually it would be today — late evening.

    1
    0
  • A check with her calendar confirmed she was more than three weeks late.

    1
    0
  • The doctor says late December.

    1
    0
  • It was getting late and Alex would be worried.

    1
    0
  • It was too late and he knew it.

    1
    0
  • It was late when they returned, and she left Alex in the barn to unhitch the horse while she went to the house to fix something to eat.

    2
    1
  • Late September aroused the instinct to prepare the den for winter — so to speak.

    1
    0
  • She was four months late doing so, but it was done now, and at last the haunting feeling was laid to rest.

    1
    0
  • She stirred after dawn, startled to see she'd slept so late.

    1
    0
  • Too late, she realized what she'd said.

    1
    0
  • Too late, she'd heard the footsteps behind her and felt something smash into her head.

    1
    0
  • And I'm ashamed I did not act before now, when it may be too late to counter Sirian.

    1
    0
  • She didn't see the guard until it was too late.

    1
    0
  • It was too late to undo what he had done.

    1
    0
  • Even if I knew how, it may be too late to save them.

    1
    0
  • Whatever you plan for him, plan for me before it's too late for your people or mine.

    1
    0
  • As long as Sirian was kept in the dungeon, Memon wouldn't know until it was too late.

    1
    0
  • Memon inspected the hold and the city until late afternoon, when the scent of roasting meat wafted from the massive kitchens behind the hold through the city.

    1
    0
  • I don't want to be late.

    1
    0
  • I'm a week late already.

    1
    0
  • Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?

    1
    0
  • Well, it's getting late and I'd better get in.

    1
    0
  • Obviously. Do you always sleep this late?

    1
    0
  • Sleep late and wake up grouchy.

    1
    0
  • It's late and I'm tired.

    1
    0
  • Too late, she dodged his grasp.

    1
    0
  • She was late again, and everyone was on the verandah.

    1
    0
  • Now, she was late for work and probably on her way to getting fired.

    1
    0
  • A lanky boy in his late teens stood beside the bed.

    1
    0
  • She wasn't going to be late on her first day, not because she cared what the client wanted, but because Jonny claimed to be watching every move she made.

    1
    0
  • I can't let the stain set, and I'm not working late.

    1
    0
  • Too late, she realized what she said.

    1
    0
  • Jessi texted Ashley not to come, suspecting it was too late.

    1
    0
  • It was late fall, and the sun was already going down.

    1
    0
  • I'll be home late.

    2
    1
  • He willed her to trust him while suspecting it was too late.

    1
    0
  • It was too late for Xander or to make things right for the kids.

    1
    0
  • Although in late Tertiary times widely spread over southern Europe and India, giraffes are now confined to Africa south of the Sahara.

    1
    0
  • An attempt late in 1519 to seize Ferrara failed, and the pope recognized the need of foreign aid.

    1
    0
  • Of late years the function of the collector is discharged in some forms of apparatus by a salt of radium.

    1
    0
  • Of late years many observations have been made of the ionic charges in air.

    1
    0
  • At Freiburg, Gockel found I + and I_ decidedly larger in the early afternoon than in either the morning or the late evening hours.

    1
    0
  • Of late years many experiments have been made on the influence of electric fields or currents on plant growth.

    1
    0
  • The manuscripts on which we have to rely are both late and deeply interpolated.

    1
    0
  • In his initial declaration to the chamber the new premier had declared his intention of continuing the policy of the late cabinet, pledging the new ministry to a policy of conciliation, to the consideration of old age pensions, an income-tax, separation of Church and State.

    2
    1
  • This explains the late date at which the dogma was defined, and the assertion that the dogma was already contained in that of the papal primacy established by our Lord himself in the person of St Peter.

    1
    0
  • Many of the churches show characteristic Spanish Late Gothic architecture which survived until a comparatively recent period.

    1
    0
  • The restriction of the early letters of the alphabet to known, and of the late letters to unknown, quantities is also his work.

    1
    0
  • Late in 430 they deposed him from his magistracy.

    1
    0
  • Rulers of this name are found at Rhodes as late as the 1st century B.C. The Prytaneum was regarded as the religious and political centre of the community and was thus the nucleus of all government, and the official "home" of the whole people.

    1
    0
  • St Michael's church at Hamburg, built as late as 1762 and unaltered in 1880, had a 17th-century pitch, a' 407.9.

    1
    0
  • He was now sent on an important mission to India; he left England in September 1769, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea late in 1770 or early in 1771.

    1
    0
  • June is often wet, but most favourable for the springing crops; July and August are warm, but, excepting two or three days at a time, not uncomfortably so; while the autumn weeks of late August and September are very pleasant.

    1
    0
  • Much has been done of late years to make these subordinate standards of reformed doctrine more generally known.

    1
    0
  • The White Camelia was formed in 1867 in Louisiana and rapidly spread over the states of the late Confederacy.

    1
    0
  • It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands.

    1
    0
  • On the death of William Longsword, duke of Normandy, who had been assassinated by Arnulf, count of Flanders, in December 942, Louis endeavoured to obtain possession of the person of Richard, the young son and heir of the late duke.

    1
    0
  • The plot failed owing to the late arrival of the Athenian force, when Nicodromus had already fled the island.

    1
    0
  • Prior to 1858, when the modern building period commenced, Jerusalem lay wholly within its 16th-century walls, and even as late as 1875 there were few private residences beyond their limits.

    1
    0
  • The commerce of the island has been of late years increasing at a rapid rate.

    1
    0
  • Dr Jack, late government geologist of Queensland, considers the extent of the coal-fields of that state to be practically unlimited, and is of opinion that the carboniferous formations extend to a considerable distance under the Great Western Plains.

    1
    0
  • The evidence for the rite among the Greeks is sufficient to warrant the conclusion of its introduction at a very early period and its persistence to a late day.

    1
    0
  • But, still clinging to the groundless belief, for which British statesmen had, of late at least, afforded Turkey no justification, that Great Britain at all events would support him, he obstinately refused to give ear to the pressing requests of the Powers that the necessary reforms should be instituted.

    1
    0
  • Bishops of Icosium - which was created a Latin city by Vespasian - are mentioned as late as the 5th century.

    1
    0
  • The young trees require protection from storms and late frosts even more than in England; the red pine of the north-eastern states, Pinus resinosa, answers well as a nurse, but the pitch pine and other species may be employed.

    1
    0
  • He delayed supporting the infantry till too late, and was repulsed; he allowed the royal army to march past his outposts; and a fortnight afterwards, without any attempt to prevent it, and greatly to Cromwell's vexation, permitted the moving of the king's artillery and the relief of Donnington Castle by Prince Rupert.

    1
    0
  • There it was hanged on a gallows, and in the evening taken down, when the head was cut off and set up upon Westminster Hall, where it remained till as late as 1684, the trunk being thrown into a pit underneath the gallows.

    1
    0
  • The law and custom which preceded the Code we shall call " early," that of the New Babylonian empire (as well as the Persian, Greek, &c.) " late.

    1
    0
  • As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.

    1
    0
  • Copper is not yet universally employed, price being the governing factor in its employment; moreover, the conducting quality of the iron used for telegraphic purposes has of late years been very greatly improved.

    1
    0
  • In all the upland valleys of the Abruzzi snow begins to fall early in November, and heavy storms occur often as late as May; whole communities are shut out for months from any intercourse with their neighbours, and some villages are so long buried in snow that regular passages are made between the different houses for the sake of communication among the inhabitants.

    1
    0
  • Labor legislation is backward in Italy, on account of the late development of manufacturing industry and of working-class organization.

    1
    0
  • Owing to the comnaratively small amount of letters, it is found possible to have a travelling post office on all principal trains (while almost every train has a travelling sorter, for whom a compartment is reserved) without a late fee being exacted in either case.

    1
    0
  • But the laws have not been rigorously enforced of late years; and the ecclesiastical possessions seized by the state were thrown on the market simultaneously, and so realized very low prices, being often bought up by wealthy religious institutions.

    1
    0
  • The men classed in it have to train for six months, and they are called up in the late summer to bridge the The 2nd category of the 1875 law had practically ceased to exist.

    1
    0
  • We have seen that the name of Italy was originally applied only to the southernmost part of the peninsula, and was only gradually extended so as to comprise the central regions, such as Latium and Campania, which were designated by writers as late as Thucydides and Aristotle as in Opicia.

    1
    0
  • Then, too late, patriots like Machiavelli perceived the suicidal self-indulgence of the past, which, by substituting mercenary troops for national militias, left the Italians at the absolute discretion.

    1
    0
  • Then it was too late; Victor Emmanuel asked Thiers if he could give his word of honor that with 100,000 Italian troops France could be saved, but Thiers remained silent.

    1
    0
  • The latter accepted the task, and the new administration included Signor Tittoni, late prefect of Naples, as foreign minister, Signor Luigi Luzzatti, the eminent financier, at the treasury, General Pedotti at the war office, and Admiral Mirabello as minister of marine.

    1
    0
  • In November Signor Gianturco died, and Signor Pietro Bertolini took his place as minister of public works; the latter proved perhaps the ablest member of the cabinet, but the acceptance of office under Giolitti of a man who had been one of the most trusted and valuable lieutenants of Signor Sonnino marked a further step in the dgringolade of that statesmans party, and was attributed to the fact that Signor Bertolini resented not having had a place in the late Sonnino ministry.

    1
    0
  • At a later period, when the Atharvan gained admission to the Vedic canon, a special connexion with the Brahman priest was sometimes claimed, though with scant success, for this fourth collection of hymns and spells, and the comparatively late and unimportant Gopatha-brahmana attached to it.

    1
    0
  • The older rocks are early Tertiary or late Cretaceous but there are no fossils to indicate age.

    1
    0
  • The number of convicts has somewhat diminished of late years and in 1901 stood at 11,947.

    1
    0
  • These councils, as will be seen, are late.

    1
    0
  • As late as 1566 ticalJuris= Archbishop Hamilton of Glasgow, upon his appointment, had restitution of his jurisdiction in the probate Scotland.

    1
    0
  • There have been good Pali scholars there since late medieval times.

    1
    0
  • The use of the word is, however, late, the vigiliae (pernoctationes, 7ravvvXiSes) having originally been the services, consisting of prayers, hymns, processions and sometimes the eucharist, celebrated on the preceding night in preparation for the feast.

    1
    0
  • The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.

    1
    0
  • According to Gruppe, the legend of the death of Orpheus is a late imitation of the Adonis-Osiris myth.

    1
    0
  • This i correlated with the comparatively late formation and small development of the first leaves.

    1
    0
  • The limit of each years increment of secondary wood, in those plants whose yearly activity is interrupted by a regular winter or dry season, is marked by a more or less distinct line, which is produced by the sharp contrast between the wood formed in the late summer of one year (characterized by the sparseness or small diameter of the tracheal elements, or by the preponderance of fibres, or by a combination of these characters, giving a denseness to the wood) and the loose spring wood of the next year, with its absence of fibres, or its numerous large tracheae.

    1
    0
  • In Gymnosperms, where vessels and fibres are absent, the late summer wood is composed of radially narrow thick-walled tracheids, the wood of the succeeding spring being wide-celled and thin-walled, so that the limit of the years growth is very well marked.

    1
    0
  • More indirect methods, such as the grafting of less resistant scions on more vigorous stocks, of raising special late or early varieties by crossing or selection, and so on, have also met with success; but it must be understood that resistant in such cases usually means that some peculiarity of quick growth, early ripening or other life-feature in the plant is for the time being taken advantage of.

    1
    0
  • It was not, however, till late in the 12th century (1172-1176) that the city was surrounded with walls by order of the emperor Frederick I., to whom (in 1166) and to his grandson Frederick II.

    1
    0
  • The resulting " classification is based on the examination, mostly autoptic, of a far greater number of characters than any that had preceded it; moreover, they were chosen in a different way, discernment being exercised in sifting and weighing them, so as to determine, so far as possible, the relative value of each, according as that value may vary in different groups, and not to produce a mere mechanical ` key ' after the fashion become of late years so common " (Newton's Dictionary of Birds, Introduction, p. 103).

    1
    0
  • In fact Susiana was only a late name for the country, dating from the time when Susa had been made a capital of the Persian empire.

    1
    0
  • It is clear that in the circumstances the terms "father," "patristic," "patrology" must be used with much elasticity, since it is now too late to substitute for them any more comprehensive terms.

    1
    0
  • After nine years spent at Laleham he was induced to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant head-mastership of Rugby; and though he entered somewhat late upon the contest, and though none of the electors was personally known to him, he was elected in December 1827.

    1
    0
  • Not to speak of earlier periods, a great deal has been written concerning Mantegna of late years.

    1
    0
  • The Pentateuch (or Hexateuch) was finally completed in its present form at some time before 400 B.C. The latest parts of the Old Testament are the books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (c. 330 B.C.), Ecclesiastes and Esther (3rd century) and Daniel, composed either in the 3rd century or according to some views as late as the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (c. 168 B.C.).

    1
    0
  • Very important for the study of Midrashic literature are the Yalgut (gleaning) Shim`oni, on the whole Bible, the Yalqut Mekhiri, on the Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the Midrash ha-gadhol, 2 all of which are of uncertain but late date and preserve earlier material.

    1
    0
  • Its time of greatest prosperity and importance was the period of the Abbasid caliphate, and Arabic geographers as late as A.D.

    1
    0
  • The Great Council of Venice was anything but a primitive institution; it was the artificial institution of a late age, which grew at the expense of earlier institutions, of the prince on the one side and of the people on the other.

    1
    0
  • In short, there is no real nobility in England; for the class which answers to foreign nobility has so long ceased to have any practical privileges that it has long ceased to be looked on as a nobility, and the word nobility has been transferred to another class which has nothing answering to it out of the three British kingdoms. 2 This last ' This statement is mainly interesting as expressing the late Professor Freeman's view; it is, however, open to serious criticism.

    1
    0
  • The best-known species, Myrmeleon formicarius, which may be found adult in the late summer, occurs in many countries on the European continent, though like the rest of this group it is not indigenous in England.

    1
    0
  • In all probability the western projection of Africa was connected by a land bridge with the opposite land of Brazil as late as the Eocene period of the Tertiary epoch.

    1
    0
  • This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

    1
    0
  • But of late Liberian influence has been extending, more especially in the counties of Maryland and Montserrado.

    1
    0
  • The church of St Andrew is principally late Norman.

    1
    0
  • Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late section of their system.

    1
    0
  • With Thomas Dekker he wrote The Fairy Knight and The Bristowe Merchant (licensed in 1624, but both unpublished), with John Webster A late Murther of the Sonne upon the Mother (licensed in 1624).

    2
    1
  • The spring is exceptionally beautiful in central Russia; late as it usually is, it sets in with vigour, and vegetation develops with a rapidity which gives to this season in Russia a special charm, unknown in warmer climates.

    1
    0
  • This may be explained by a variety of causes, of which the chief is the maintenance by the Slays down to a very late period of gentile or tribal organization and gentile marriages, a fact vouched for, not only in the pages of the Russian chronicler Nestor, but still more by visible social evidences, the gens later developing into the village community, and the colonization being carried on by large co-ordinated bodies of people.

    1
    0
  • It was only as late as 1904, however, that the landed proprietors were forbidden by law to inflict corporal punishment upon the peasants.

    1
    0
  • As late as 1571 Moscow was pillaged by a Tatar horde; but there was no longer any question of permanent political subjection to the Asiatics, and the Russian frontier was being gradually pushed forward at the expense of the nomads of the steppe by the constant advance of the agricultural population in quest of virgin soil.

    1
    0
  • His successor, Basil, tried to get himself elected grand-prince of Lithuania when the throne became vacant by the death of his brother-in-law in 1506, but the choice fell on the late prince's brother Sigismund, who was likewise elected king of Poland.

    1
    0
  • Under the influence of the great nobles who had unsuccessfully opposed the election of Godunov, the general discontent took the form of hostility to him as a usurper, and rumours were heard that the late tsar's younger brother Dimitri (Demetrius), supposed The to be dead, was still alive and in hiding.

    1
    0
  • The late tsar's eldest son, Theodore, was weak in health and died Theodore without male issue after an uneventful reign of six III..

    1
    0
  • The heir to the throne was the late tsar's eldest brother, Constantine, but he declined, for private reasons, to accept the succession, and a few days elapsed before the second brother, I., Nicholas, was proclaimed emperor.

    1
    0
  • The climate in late geologic time was very different from that which prevails to-day.

    1
    0
  • Moreover, under piaculum are confused purification, propitiations and expiations; Smith's contention that purifications, whose magical character he recognizes but interprets as late, are not sacrificial, is far from conclusive.

    2
    1
  • John Wedder - burn was in Dundee as late as 1546, when he was obliged to flee to England.

    2
    1
  • Here, then, we have pictured as late as the 4th century a Lord's supper, which like the one described in I Cor.

    2
    1
  • There is a well-known story of the last of the race being killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680, but there is evidence of wolves having survived in Sutherlandshire and other parts into the following century (perhaps as late as 1743), though the date of their final extinction cannot be accurately fixed.

    2
    1
  • It has been placed, upon the evidence of somewhat doubtful traditions, as late as 1766.

    2
    1
  • The cathedral is a noble late Romanesque building with four imposing towers.

    2
    1
  • He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.

    2
    1
  • Neither nature nor acquired habits qualified him to be an orator; his late entrance on public life, his natural timidity, his feeble voice, his limited command of idiomatic English, and even, as he candidly confesses, his literary fame, were all obstacles to success.

    2
    1
  • At Troyes, where the gild of St Crispin was reconstituted as late as 1820, an annual festival is celebrated in the church of St Urban.

    1
    0
  • By a series of delays he caused the failure of the naval expedition prepared at Sluys against England in 1386, and a second accusation of military negligence led to disgrace of the royal princes and the temporary triumph of the marmousets, as the advisers of the late king were nicknamed.

    1
    0
  • See John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725); Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (Erlangen, 1802); Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1876), ch.

    1
    0
  • The Greek text of the Physiologus exists only in late MSS., and has to be corrected from the translations.

    1
    0
  • It is preserved in a single MS. which was prepared at the command of Maximilian I., and was discovered as late as 1820 in the Castle of Ambras in Tirol.

    1
    0
  • There are, of course, numerous problems relating to the nature, limits and dates of the two recensions, of the incorporated sources, and of other sources (whether early or late) of independent origin; and here there is naturally room for much divergence of opinion.

    1
    0
  • The writings are the result of a continued literary process, and the Israelite national history has come down to us through Judaean hands, with the result that much of it has been coloured by late Judaean feeling.

    1
    0
  • Although the latter have special late and unreliable features, they agree with the former in presenting the same general trend of past history.

    1
    0
  • Elaborate legal enactments codified in Babylonia by the 10th century B.C. find striking parallels in Hebrew, late Jewish (Talmudic), Syrian and Mahommedan law, or in the unwritten usages of all ages; for even where there were neither written laws nor duly instituted lawgivers, there was no lawlessness, since custom and belief were, and still are, almost inflexible.

    1
    0
  • To a certain extent it would seem that even as Chronicles (q.v.) has passed through the hands of one who was keenly interested in the Temple service, so the other historical books have been shaped not only by the late priestly writers (symbolized in literary criticism by P), but also by rather earlier writers, also of priestly sympathies, but of " southern " or half-Edomite affinity.

    1
    0
  • The perplexing relation between the admittedly late compilations and the actual course of the early history becomes still more intricate when one observes such a feature as the late interest in the Israelite tribes.

    1
    0
  • No doubt there is much that is purely artificial and untrustworthy in the late (post-exilic) representations of these divisions, but it is almost incredible that the historical foundation for their early career is severed from the written sources by centuries of warfare, immigration and other disturbing factors.

    1
    0
  • There is little doubt that Josephus refers to the same events; but there is considerable confusion in his history of the Persian age, and when he places the schism and the foundation of the new Temple in the time of Alexander the Great (after the obscure disasters of the reign of Artaxerxes III.), it is usually supposed that he is a century too late.

    1
    0
  • It is from this narrower standpoint of an exclusive and confined Judah (and Benjamin) that the traditions as incorporated in the late recensions gain fresh force, and in Israel's renunciation of the Judaean yoke the later hostility between the two may be read between the lines.

    1
    0
  • The history in Kings was not finally settled until a very late date, as is evident from the important variations in the Septuagint, and it is especially in the description of the time of Solomon and the disruption that there continued to be considerable fluctuations.'

    1
    0
  • An interest in the past is not necessarily confined to any one age, and the critical view that the biblical history has been compiled from relatively late standpoints finds support in the still later treatment of the events - in Chronicles as contrasted with Samuel-Kings or in Jubilees as contrasted with Genesis.'

    1
    0
  • From Italy we may turn to the country which so much influenced Italian politics, Austria, which had founded the system of " Court Jews " in 1518, had expelled the Jews from Vienna as late as 1670, when the synagogue of that city was converted into a church.

    1
    0
  • In Spain there has been of late a more liberal attitude towards the Jews, and there is a small congregation (without a public synagogue) in Madrid.

    1
    0
  • In Morocco the Jews, who until late in the 19th century were often persecuted, are still confined to a mellah (separate quarter), but at the coast-towns there are prosperous Jewish communities mostly engaged in commerce.

    1
    0
  • Its object was the foundation of a Jewish state in Palestine, but though it aroused much interest it failed to attract the majority of the emancipated Jews, and the movement has of late been transforming itself into a mere effort at colonization.

    1
    0
  • The De prelates of Valerian is concerned with secular princes, and even as late as the 14th century the title was occasionally applied to secular magistrates.

    1
    0
  • Next to these come the coral islands Nomuka and Lifuka in the Hapai group; Tofua, 2846 ft., Late or Lette, 1800 ft.

    1
    0
  • Some of the islands are built of volcanic rocks alone; such are Hongu-tonga and Hongu-hapai, which appear to be fragments of a single ancient crater, Tofua, Kao, Late, Metis, Amargua and Falcon Island.

    1
    0
  • The succeeding Late Minoan period, best illustrated by the later palace at Cnossus and that at Hagia Triada, corresponds in Egypt with the Hyksos period and the earlier part of the New Empire.

    1
    0
  • Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."

    1
    0
  • Of the more conventional side of Late Minoan life a graphic illustration is supplied by the remains of miniature wall paintings found in the palace of Cnossus, showing groups of court ladies in curiously modern costumes, seated on the terraces and balustrades of a sanctuary.

    1
    0
  • Cretan enterprise in the days of the New Egyptian empire is illustrated by repeated finds of Late Minoan pottery on Egyptian sites.

    1
    0
  • The contents of the royal tombs, on the other hand, reveal a wholesale correspondence with the fabrics of the first, and, to a less degree, the second Late Minoan age, as illustrated by the relics belonging to the Middle Period of the later palace at Cnossus and by those of the royal villa at Hagia Triada.

    1
    0
  • The ceiling of that of Orchomenos, and the painted vases and gold cups from the Vaphio tomb by Sparta, with their marvellous reliefs showing scenes of bull-hunting, represent the late palace style at Cnossus in its final development.

    1
    0
  • These ancient indications of a Minoan connexion with Sicily have now received interesting confirmation in the numerous discoveries, principally due to the recent excavations of P. Orsi, of arms and painted vases of Late Minoan fabric in Bronze Age tombs of the provinces of Syracuse and Girgenti (Agrigentum) belonging to the late Bronze Age.

    1
    0
  • Some of these objects, such as certain forms of swords and vases, seem to be of local fabric, but derived from originals going back to the beginning of the Late Minoan age.

    1
    0
  • This third Late Minoan period - the beginning of which may be fixed about 1400 - is an age of stagnation and decline, but the point of departure continued to be the models supplied by the age that had preceded it.

    1
    0
  • It is certain that towards the close of this third and concluding Late Minoan period in the island certain mainland types of swords and safety-pins make their appearance, which are symptomatic of the great invasion from that side that was now impending or had already begun.

    1
    0
  • In contrast to the palace of Phaestus, the contents of the royal villa proved exceptionally rich, and derive a special interest from the fact that the catastrophe which overwhelmed the building belongs to a somewhat earlier part of the Late Minoan age than that which overwhelmed Cnossus and Phaestus.

    1
    0
  • Both the signet types and the other objects of art here discovered display the fresh naturalism that characterizes in a special way the first Late Minoan period.

    1
    0
  • The period of decline referred to above (Late Minoan III.), which begins about the beginning of the 14th century before our era, must, from the abundance of its remains, have been of considerable duration.

    1
    0
  • The Keftiu who represented Minoan culture in Egypt in the concluding period of the Cnossian palace (Late Minoan II.) cease to appear on Egyptian monuments towards the end of the XVIIIth Dynasty (c. 1350 B.C.), and their place is taken by the "Peoples of the Sea."

    1
    0
  • An ardent anti-renter in his boyhood and youth, he wrote A History of Delaware County and the Border Wars of New York, containing a Sketch of the Early Settlements in the County, and A History of the Late Anti-Rent Difficulties in Delaware (Roxbury, 1856).

    1
    0
  • Of the total importations of all kinds of coal to Hamburg, that of British coal, particularly from Northumberland and Durham, occupies the first place, and despite some falling off in late years, owing to the competition made by Westphalian coal, amounts to more than half the total import.

    1
    0
  • So swiftly and noiselessly indeed had the whole revolution proceeded that as late as eight o'clock the next morning very few people in the city were aware of it.

    1
    0
  • Late in 1839 Fellows, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied,by George Scharf, who assisted him in sketching.

    1
    0
  • A third visit was made late in 1841, after Fellows had obtained a firman by personal application at Constantinople.

    1
    0
  • His education was limited to that which could be obtained in the common schools and at Kinderhook Academy, and there is testimony to the effect that as late as 1829, when he became secretary of state, he wrote crudely and incorrectly.

    1
    0
  • In the debate on the "tariff of abominations" in 1828 he took no part, but voted for the measure in obedience to instructions from the New York legislature - an action which was cited against him as late as the presidential campaign of 1844.

    1
    0
  • Among these are the town hall, of the 16th century, in the Transition style from late Gothic to Renaissance, restored in recent years; the Kornhaus; the Ehingerhaus or Neubronnerhaus, now containing the industrial museum; and the commandery of the Teutonic order, built in1712-1718on the site of a habitation of the order dating from the 13th century, and now used as barracks.

    1
    0
  • He wrote An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619); Canicularia (1648); and translated Proclus' De Sphaera, and Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620).

    1
    0
  • Guillaume arrived too late to help Vivien, was himself defeated, and returned alone to his wife Guibourc, leaving his knights all dead or prisoners.

    1
    0
  • Late in the same year, accordingly, he entered the medical school of Padua, where he remained until 1505, having taken meanwhile a doctor's degree in canon law at Ferrara on the 31st of May 1503.

    1
    0
  • This would lead to the supposition that the great development of metasomatic carapace is a primitive and not a late character, were it not for the fact that Paradcxides and Atops, with an inconspicuous telsonic carapace and numerous free somites, are also Cambrian in age, the latter indeed anterior in horizon to Agnostus.

    1
    0
  • The date is placed by some scholars as early as 70-79, by others as late as the early years of the emperor Hadrian, 117.

    1
    0
  • Pop. of the municipality (1900), 2 9,33 1, a large percentage being summer residents, as the census was taken late in December; (1902, municipal census), 18, 373.

    1
    0
  • When it rose early it was a sign of summer; when late, of winter and stormy weather; when it rose about midnight it heralded the season of vintage.

    1
    0
  • It rests on the old theory of the antiquity of the Levitical legislation, so that in fact all who place that legislation later than Ezekiel are agreed that the book of Joel is also late.

    1
    0
  • The style of Joel is clear (which hardly favours an early date), and his language presents peculiarities which are evidences of a late origin.

    1
    0
  • It is characteristic of the prophetic eschatology that images suggested by one prophet are adopted by his successors, and gradually become part of the permanent scenery of the last times; and it is a proof of the late date of Joel that almost his whole picture is made up of such features.

    1
    0
  • Jugjevan, a Brahman, the late minister of Fateh Mahommed, also received a considerable share of influence; and the hatred of these two factions was embittered by religious animosities, the one being Hindu and the other Mahommedan.

    1
    0
  • That of "count" was, as Luchaire points out, "equivocal" even as late as the 12th century; any castellan of moderate rank could style himself comte who in the next century would have been called seigneur (dominus).

    1
    0
  • As late as the time of Augustus it was but little known in Roman territory, and gained a firm foothold in Italy only gradually, as a result of the intercourse between Rome and Asia consequent upon the erection of the Eastern provinces and the submission and colonization of Mesopotamia.

    1
    0
  • The cathedral is a late Gothic structure begun in 1397 by Charles III.

    1
    0
  • Hence, though the village of Canongate grew up beside the abbey of David I., and Edinburgh was a place of sufficient importance to be reckoned one of the four principal burghs as a judicatory for all commercial matters, nevertheless, even so late as 1450, when it became for the first time a walled town, it did not extend beyond the upper part of the ridge which slopes eastwards from the castle.

    1
    0
  • St Jerome (Ep. 1 4 6) tells us that as late as the middle of the 3rd century the presbyters of Alexandria, when the see was vacant, used to elect one of their own number and without any further ordination set him in the episcopal office.

    1
    0
  • The church of St Andrew is cruciform and full of fine details of late Norman, Early English and Decorated work.

    1
    0
  • The medieval building was demolished late in the 18th century, and the present castle erected in mingled Gothic and Moorish styles.

    1
    0
  • The Golden Chapel on the south side is rich late Perpendicular, with a roof of fan-tracery, showing signs of the original decoration in colours.

    1
    0
  • Upon his return to his home late in 1847 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, and in 1850 he was elected for a full term of six years.

    1
    0
  • We find, however, as late as 1473 the attempt made to bind all teachers in the university of Paris by oath to teach the doctrines of Realism; but this expiring effort was naturally ineffectual, and from 1481 onward even the show of obedience was no longer exacted.

    1
    0
  • The administration therefore decided that ho was unable to represent his government properly and late in 1796 recalled him.

    1
    0
  • By the time that a tumour has made itself recognisable the probability is that it is too late for the attempt to be made for its removal.

    1
    0
  • This was the archduke Ferdinand, who claimed the Hungarian crown by right of inheritance in the name of his wife, Anne, sister of the late king.

    1
    0
  • Even as late as 1622 the Protestants at the diet of Pressburg were strong enough to elect their candidate, Szaniszl6 Thurz6, palatine.

    1
    0
  • The Az utolso Bebek (The Last of the Bebeks), by the late Charles Petery, is a work rich in poetic invention, but meagre in historical matter.

    1
    0
  • Somogyi (sociology), and the late Augustus Pulszky In history there has been great activity.

    1
    0
  • After the war he allied himself with the radical wing of his party, was a member of the joint committee that outlined the congressional plan of reconstructing the late Confederate States, and laboured for the impeachment of President Johnson.

    1
    0
  • During the late summer the authorities in Vienna and Budapest keenly debated rival plans for solving the southern Slav question - in every case, however, in accordance with Austrian or Hungarian rather than Yugoslav interests.

    1
    0
  • The commencement of anatomical investigations deserves notice here as influencing the general accuracy and minuteness with which zoological work was prosecuted, but it was not until a late date that their full influence was brought to bear upon systematic zoology by Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).

    1
    0
  • The representations of nomads on objects of Greek art show people with full beards and shaggy hair, such as cannot be reconciled with Hippocrates; but the only reliefs which seem to be accurate belong to a late date when the ruling clan was Sarmatian rather than Scythic.

    1
    0
  • But if we remove them we get a continuous body of Levitical Elohim psalms, or rather two collections, the first Korahitic and the second Asaphic, to which there have been added by way of appendix by a non-Elohistic editor a supplementary group of Korahite psalms and one psalm (certainly late) ascribed to David.

    1
    0
  • Late one evening he came to a little farmhouse in a lonely valley.

    2
    1
  • One evening he was very late coming home.

    5
    4
  • Why do some people keep their mental faculties so late in life?

    2
    1
  • O'Neill observed that scrutiny of government had become so intense that officials never could have gotten away with that—and he was writing in the late 1980s.

    2
    1
  • It was delightful to lose ourselves in the green hollows of that tangled wood in the late afternoon, and to smell the cool, delicious odours that came up from the earth at the close of day.

    8
    7
  • I am sorry to say that our train was delayed in several places, which made us late in reaching New York.

    2
    1
  • It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was plain sailing.

    2
    1
  • I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect.

    7
    6
  • The beauty of the ice was gone, and it was too late to study the bottom.

    3
    2
  • Sometimes the well dent is visible, where once a spring oozed; now dry and tearless grass; or it was covered deep--not to be discovered till some late day--with a flat stone under the sod, when the last of the race departed.

    3
    2
  • Late in the afternoon, as he was resting in the thick woods south of Walden, he heard the voice of the hounds far over toward Fair Haven still pursuing the fox; and on they came, their hounding cry which made all the woods ring sounding nearer and nearer, now from Well Meadow, now from the Baker Farm.

    3
    2
  • As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.

    2
    1
  • He says the count was the last representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as possible.

    2
    1
  • The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting room with a look of alarm.

    2
    1
  • The two women let go of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise both began to cry and kissed again.

    3
    2
  • Contrary to his habit of being late, Pierre on that day arrived at the Bergs' house, not at ten but at fifteen minutes to eight.

    3
    2
  • She was afraid of being late for Matins.

    11
    10
  • It was already late when he rose after sealing the letter.

    5
    4
  • It was by now late in the afternoon.

    16
    15
  • But she remembered too how he had changed of late toward Mademoiselle Bourienne and could not bear to see her, thereby showing how unjust were the reproaches Princess Mary had mentally addressed to her.

    5
    4
  • The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.

    2
    1
  • But hard as they all worked till quite late that night, they could not get everything packed.

    2
    1
  • I tell you, Papa" (he smote himself on the breast as a general he had heard speaking had done, but Berg did it a trifle late for he should have struck his breast at the words "Russian army"), "I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor," he went on rapidly.

    3
    2
  • After a few words about Princess Mary and her late father, whom Malvintseva had evidently not liked, and having asked what Nicholas knew of Prince Andrew, who also was evidently no favorite of hers, the important old lady dismissed Nicholas after repeating her invitation to come to see her.

    2
    1
  • The state of things on the staff had of late been exceedingly strained.

    5
    4
  • Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere.

    2
    1
  • And they did indeed get somewhere, though not to their right places; a few eventually even got to their right place, but too late to be of any use and only in time to be fired at.

    2
    1
  • We lived under the late count--the kingdom of heaven be his!--and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged.

    2
    1
  • Too soon or too late... it is terrible!

    2
    1
  • Jackson and Elisabeth led the newlyweds outside as Jackson explained, This is a little late.

    0
    0
  • She had received notice from Parkside's police officer McCarthy the prior day, Tuesday, late in the afternoon.

    0
    0
  • He called late in the evening and said the cow was in poor condition and too old for what he wanted.

    0
    0
  • In late versions this legend was expanded and varied, the martyrdom was connected with a refusal to take part in a great sacrifice ordered at Octodurum and the name of Exsuperius was added to that of Mauritius.

    0
    0
  • Having studied at Ingolstadt, Vienna, Cracow and Paris, he returned to Ingolstadt in 1507, and in 1509 was appointed tutor to Louis and Ernest, the two younger sons of Albert the Wise, the late duke of BavariaMunich.

    0
    0
  • In some parts of the river 300 naouras have been counted within a space of 130 m., but of late years many have fallen into decay.

    0
    0
  • The winds are variable and seldom violent, except along the coast during the sub-tropical storms of late summer and early autumn.

    0
    0
  • A late authority states that he was succeeded by his son Constantine, but the subsequent kings were descended from another branch of the same family.

    0
    0
  • From thence they returned late in the 18th century to the reoccupation of their old ground in Kulja under the Chinese.

    0
    0
  • But this passage is the sequel to the rejection of Saul in xv., and Samuel's position agrees with that of the late writer in vii., viii.

    0
    0
  • The post was used by fur traders as late as 1718.

    0
    0
  • The purely hereditary principle was of comparatively late growth, the outcome of obvious convenience, exalted under the influence of various forces into a religious or quasi-religious dogma.

    0
    0
  • Of the three churches (two Evangelical and one Roman Catholic) the most remarkable is the abbey church (Klosterkirche), a late Gothic building dating from 1465-1496, the choir of which contains beautiful 15th century carved choir-stalls and a fine high altar with a triptych (1496).

    0
    0
  • It has remembered its earliest objects, and has of late years engaged during war in the ambulance service.

    0
    0
  • There is a triple-recessed doorway, with arcade above, in the west end of Bakewell church, and there is another fine west doorway in Melbourne church, a building principally of the late Norman period, with central and small western towers.

    0
    0
  • The late Dr Pugh took a prominent part in this inquiry.

    0
    0
  • Cardinal David Beton, the head of the French and Catholic party and therefore Mary of Lorraine's friend and ally, produced a will of the late king in which the primacy in the regency was assigned to himself.

    0
    0
  • This is clearly the same process in essence as that of the formation of a vitellogenous gland from part of the primitive ovary, or of the feeding of an ovarian egg by the absorption of neighbouring potential eggs; but here the period at which the sacrifice of one egg to another takes place is somewhat late.

    0
    0
  • The invasion of Switzerland, which Bonaparte had of late persistently pressed on the Directory, proved to be an equally lucrative device, the funds in several of the cantonal treasuries being transferred straightway to Paris or Toulon.

    0
    0
  • Anspach and Bayreuth were also to be handed over to Bavaria, it now being the aim of Napoleon to aggrandize the South German princes who had fought on his side in the late war.

    0
    0
  • Hoping to punish Moore for his boldness, Napoleon struck quickly north at Astorga, but found that he was too late to catch his foe.

    0
    0
  • The shaft-graves in the Mycenae circle are also a late type, paralleled in the later Cnossian cemetery.

    0
    0
  • These northern "megara" are all of late date, none being prior to Minoan III.

    0
    0
  • Actual vases of late Minoan style have been found with remains of Dynasty XVIII., especially in the town of Amenophis IV.

    0
    0
  • The "Life" calls into existence in the visible world a series of three great Helpers, Hibil, Shithil and Anosh (late Judaeo-Babylonian transformations of the well-known names of the book of Genesis), the guardians of souls.

    0
    0
  • From 1871 to 1873 he edited the Atlanta Daily Sun, and he published A Constitutional View of the Late War between the States (2 vols., 1868-1870), perhaps the best statement of the southern position with reference to state sovereignty and secession; The Reviewers Reviewed (1872), a supplement to the preceding work; and A Compendium of the History of the United States (1875; new ed., 1883).

    0
    0
  • Willughby, Ray and others in the late 17th century to include the active larvae of beetles, as well as bugs, lice, fleas and other insects with undeveloped wings.

    0
    0
  • The earliest known use of the word Ornithology seems to be in the third edition of Blount's Glossographia (1670), where it is noted as being " the title of a late Book."

    0
    0
  • In 1866 the yard was enlarged by connecting Seavey's Island with Fernald's; late in the 19th century it was equipped for building and repairing steel vessels.

    0
    0
  • We can trace the continuous growth of Venice through the successive styles of Byzantine, Gothic, early Renaissance and late Renaissance architecture.

    0
    0
  • It was built for Marino Contarini in 1421, rather a late period in the development of the style.

    0
    0
  • Polo, a late central Gothic building (1380-1400) which Ruskin describes as "of the finest kind and superb in its effect of colour when seen from the side.

    0
    0
  • Though the state papers of Venice have suffered from fire and the series begins comparatively late, yet their fullness and the world-wide sweep of Venetian interests render this collection an inexhaustible storehouse of data for students.

    0
    0
  • The secret of lace-making was believed to have been lost, but the late Signor Fambri discovered at Chioggia an old woman who knew it, and placed her at the head of a lace school.

    0
    0
  • When discovered by Europeans, late in the first half of the 17th century, the territory included within what is now Ohio was mainly a battle-ground of numerous Indian tribes and the fixed abode of none except the Eries who occupied a strip along the border of Lake Erie.

    0
    0
  • Thus, though the word " Catholic " was late in finding its way into the formal symbols of the church, it is clear that it had long been in use in the original sense defined above.

    0
    0
  • The style of all the ruins is late classic and highly ornate, but without refinement.

    0
    0
  • It was still a wealthy place as late as the 14th century; but in the general decline of the East, and owing to changes in the trade routes, it sunk at length to a poor group of hovels gathered in the courtyard of the Temple of the Sun.

    0
    0
  • She was worshipped, under the form of a conical stone, in an open-air sanctuary of the usual Cypriote type (not unlike those of Mycenaean Greece), the general form of which is known from representations on late gems, and on Roman imperial coins;' its ground plan was discovered by excavations in 1888.2 It suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, and was rebuilt more than once; in Roman times it consisted of an open court, irregularly quadrangular, with porticos and chambers on three sides, and a gateway through them on the east.

    0
    0
  • Amongst its buildings are the Gothic five-naved church of St Barbara, begun in 1368, the Gothic church of St Jacob (14th centur y) and the Late Gothic Trinity church (end of 15th century).

    0
    0
  • In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused.

    0
    0
  • At one time, indeed, he found Lavoisier's views so specious that he was much inclined to accept them, but he overcame this wavering, and so late as 1800 he wrote to the Rev. Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808), "I have well considered all that my opponents have advanced and feel perfectly confident of the ground I stand upon....

    0
    0
  • The remains of "Menf" were still imposing late in the 12th century, when they were described by 'Abdallatif.

    0
    0
  • Planting may be done as late as April 15 in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and continue as late as the end of May.

    0
    0
  • Picking may begin on July io in Southern Texas, and continue late into the winter, or until the rare frost kills the plants.

    0
    0
  • Owing to complaints of the careless packing of American cotton, attention has been devoted of late to the improvement of the square bale.

    0
    0
  • Expressed both absolutely and as percentages of the price averaged from the 1st of October to the 31st of July, the range of movement, standard deviation, and mean weekly movement calculated between the times mentioned above (October 1st to July 31st), after diminishing significantly for some years after the later 'sixties, have risen appreciably on the whole of late years.

    0
    0
  • But the point need not be discussed further here, since both percentage and absolute indices of unsteadiness have risen of late years.

    0
    0
  • But the dealing syndicate has probably been of late more common and more powerful - that is, the syndicate which exists to make profits out Table calculated from Weekly Prices between the 1st of October and the 31st of July in each Year.

    0
    0
  • The sole piece of evidence, from which probable conclusions may be drawn, is that three separate measurements of price fluctuations over some forty years reveal a growing unsteadiness of late, whether they be expressed absolutely or as percentages of price.

    0
    0
  • Of late years the under-reamer has been largely superseded by the eccentric bit.

    0
    0
  • The fanaticism of the caliph Hakim destroyed the church of the Sepulchre and ended the Frankish protectorate (Ioio); and the patronage of the Holy Places, a source of strife between the Greek and the Latin Churches as late as the beginning of the Crimean War, passed to the Byzantine empire in 1021.

    0
    0
  • At the same time, if our text is thus late, it must be remembered that its content gives us the earliest and purest exposition of French feudalism, and describes for us the organization of a kingdom, where all rights and duties were connected with the fief, and the monarch was only a suzerain of feudatories.

    0
    0
  • The crusaders of northern Germany never went to the Holy Land at all; they were allowed the crusaders' privileges for attacking the Wends to the east of the Elbe - a fact which at once attests the cleavage between northern and southern Germany (intensified of late years by the war of investitures), and anticipates the age of the Teutonic knights and their long Crusade on the Baltic. The crusaders of the Low Countries and of England took the sea route, and attacked and captured Lisbon on their way, thus helping to found the kingdom of Portugal, and achieving the one real success which was gained by the Second Crusade.

    0
    0
  • Generally speaking the Arabic writings are late in point of date, and cold and jejune in style; while it must also be remembered that they are set religious works written to defend Islam.

    0
    0
  • The latter appears mainly in Palestine, and has of late been considerably strengthened by immigration of European Jews, who have almost doubled the population of Jerusalem, and settled upon several fertile spots throughout the Holy Land.

    0
    0
  • Communications are still very imperfect, but have been greatly improved of late years.

    0
    0
  • Henceforward the petty states of Syria were at all times subject to one or other of the great world-empires, and were still in dispute between Babylonia and Egypt as late as Necho.

    0
    0
  • As the female counterpart of the Phoenician Baal (viewed as a sun-god), and on the testimony of late writers (Lucian, Herodian) that she was represented with horns, the place-name AshterothKarnaim in Gilead ("Ashteroth of the horns") has been considered ample proof in favour of the theory.

    0
    0
  • Whether borrowed or not, it must be late; and its resemblance to Greek ideas suggests Greek influence.

    0
    0
  • Remains of the bridge of the Via Aemilia over the Rhenus have also been found - consisting of parts of the parapets on each side, in brick-faced concrete which belong to a restoration, the original construction (probably by Augustus in 2 B.C.) having been in blocks of Veronese red marble - and also of a massive protecting wall slightly above it, of late date, in the construction of which a large number of Roman tombstones were used.

    0
    0
  • The use by the Malays of artificially constructed terms to denote these things may certainly be taken to strengthen the opinion that the Malays arrived in the lands they now inhabit at a comparatively late period in their history, and at a time when they had developed considerably from the original state of primitive man.

    0
    0
  • An edition of the Arabic text has been printed at Bulaq, (7 vols., 1867) and a part of the work has been translated by the late Baron McG.

    0
    0
  • But even among the late Arabian alchemists it was doubted whether the resources of the art were adequate to the task; and in the West, Vincent of Beauvais remarks that success had not been achieved in making artificial metals identical with the natural ones.

    0
    0
  • So late as 1782, James Price, an English physician, showed experiments with white and red powders, by the aid of which he was supposed to be able to transform fifty and sixty times as much mercury into silver and gold.

    0
    0
  • A somewhat wild Bedouin disposition, fostered by their surroundings, was retained by the Israelite in habitants of Gilead to a late period of their history, and seems to be to some extent discernible in what we read alike of Jephthah, of David's Gadites, and of the prophet Elijah.

    0
    0
  • In Jerusalem he saw Theodora, the beautiful widow of the late king Baldwin and niece of the emperor Manuel.

    0
    0
  • As late as 1906 it was estimated that nearly two-thirds of the men were to a greater or less degree self-supporting, as were many of the young women.

    0
    0
  • But the numerous vertically excavated tombs outside the walls are of late date and belong for the most part to the Roman period.

    0
    0
  • The oldest stage-building was erected in the time of Lycurgus; it consisted of a rectangular hall with square projections (1rapauKs vca) on either side; in As= front of this was built in late Greek or early Roman times a stage with a row of columns which intruded upon the orchestra space; a later and larger stage, dating from the time of Nero, advanced still farther into the orchestra, and this was finally faced (probably in the 3rd century A.D.) by the " bema " of Phaedrus, a platform-wall decorated with earlier reliefs, the slabs of which were cut down to suit their new position.

    0
    0
  • Thus later on we find it connected with the Morris dance; but the Morris dance was not known in England before the 16th century or late in the 15th.

    0
    0
  • In 1877 the provincial deputation was re-established, but it was not until 1895 that the home government attempted, far too late, to enact a series of adequate reform measures, and in November 1897 followed this by a grant of autonomy.

    0
    0
  • He was at Warsaw when his master died in 1733, and he secured a hold on the confidence of the electoral prince, Frederick Augustus, who was at Dresden, by laying hands on the papers and jewels of the late ruler and bringing them promptly to his successor.

    0
    0
  • In France the subject was almost entirely neglected until late in the 19th century.

    0
    0
  • Volumetric analysis, possessing as it does many advantages over the gravimetric methods, has of late years been extensively developed.

    0
    0
  • But late in the afternoon of the 13th of February 1883 his friends were shocked by his sudden death from heartfailure.

    0
    0
  • From this period until late in the 19th century it remained the most important of the line of fortresses along the Meuse.

    0
    0
  • On entering *The fact that the Mitannians venerated Varuna, Indra, and the Asvins is important as showing that Iranian and Indian Aryans had not yet separated as late as 1400 B.C.

    0
    0
  • The supposition that the hieroglyphic system belongs to a late age, because it is chiefly found in the 10th and 9th century monuments of Carchemish, is improbable, as it bears all the characteristic marks of Hethitic nationalism, and is evidently a native invention.

    0
    0
  • Celts, of the usual late neolithic type, were generally of green jasper; hoe-blades (looking almost exactly like palaeolithic haches a main) of chert or coarse limestone; hammers of granite; mace-heads, of identical type with the early Egyptian, of diorite and limestone; nails of obsidian or smoky quartz, often beautifully made.

    0
    0
  • But it was too late.

    0
    0
  • Even for northern affairs his chronology is faulty; from 1140 onwards his dates are uniformly one year too late.

    0
    0
  • For the latest edition we are indebted to the late Carl Muller (Paris, 1883-1906) to whom we are likewise indebted for an edition of the Geographi graeci minores (1855-1861).

    0
    0
  • This idea that the Messianic kingdom of the future on earth should have a definite duration has - like the whole eschatology of the primitive Church - its roots in the Jewish apocalyptic literature, where it appears at a comparatively late period.

    0
    0
  • It never again obtained a footing there; for, although, late in the middle ages, the book of Revelation - by what means we cannot tell - did recover its authority, the Church was by that time so hopelessly trammelled by a magical cultus as to be incapable of fresh developments.

    0
    0
  • There is a fine château of the late 15th century, restored in modern times, at Montignyle-Gannelon, and another of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, at one time the property of Sully, at Villebon.

    0
    0
  • Of late years, in certain of their meetings on Sunday evening, it has become customary for part of the time to be occupied with set addresses for the purpose of instructing the members of the congregation, or of conveying the Quaker message to others who may be present, all their meetings for worship being freely open to the public. In a few meetings hymns are occasionally sung, very rarely as part of any arrangement, but almost always upon the request of some individual for a particular hymn appropriate to the need of the congregation.

    0
    0
  • At certain periods this doctrine, pushed to an extreme, has led to a practical undervaluing of the Scriptures, but of late times it has enabled Friends to face fearlessly the conclusions.

    0
    0
  • Of late years the meetings have been, for the most part, held jointly, with equal liberty for all men and women to state their opinions, and to serve on all committees and other appointments.

    0
    0
  • This opinion, added to the desire which he had of himself presiding over the council, induced him to recall the fathers from Germany, whither his health, impaired of late, probably owing to a cerebral congestion, rendered it all the more difficult for him to go.

    0
    0
  • The church of the Holy Ghost (Helgeands-Kyrka) in a late Romanesque style (c. 1250) is a remarkable structure with a nave of two storeys.

    0
    0
  • Of late years it has become a much frequented winter resort, and many handsome villas (among them that built by the 3rd marquess of Salisbury) have been constructed in the neighbourhood.

    0
    0
  • Even in private houses at Rome, so late as the time of Ovid, the porter was chained.

    0
    0
  • Of late years musk-oxen have been exhibited alive in Europe; and two examples, one of which lived from 1899 till 1903, have been brought to England.

    0
    0
  • On the death of James in December 1542 he attempted to assume office as one of the regents for the infant sovereign Mary, founding his pretensions on an alleged will of the late king; but his claims were disregarded, and the earl of Arran, head of the great house of Hamilton, and next heir to the throne, was declared regent by the estates.

    0
    0
  • Botti, late director of the museum, in the neighbourhood of "Pompey's Pillar," where there is a good deal of open ground.

    0
    0
  • Even after the introduction of vellum as the ordinary vehicle for literature papyrus still continued to some extent in use outside Egypt, and was not entirely superseded until a late date.

    0
    0
  • That eminent scholars both in the synagogue and in the church should have been induced to believe in its antiquity is owing to the fact that the Zohar embodies many older opinions and doctrines, and the undoubted antiquity of some of them has served as a lever in the minds of these scholars to raise the late speculations about the En Soph, the Sephiroth, &c., to the same age.

    0
    0
  • His friends advised him to return to England, but it was too late.

    0
    0
  • Thus so late as 1819, when the legislature ordered the compilation of such parts of King Alfonso's Siete Partidas (the most common authority in the colony) as were considered in force, this compilation filled a considerable volume.

    0
    0
  • Indeed, conditions were relatively primitive so late as 1880, if compared with those of other sugar-producing countries.

    0
    0
  • The period between the downfall of Roman power, late in the 5th century, and the growth of a Bosnian state, in the i ith, is poorer in antiquities.

    0
    0
  • Of late years, however, there has been a gradual assimilation of broader views by the leaders of Islam in Turkey, at any rate at Constantinople, and the revolution of 1908, and its affirmation in the spring of 1909, took place not only with their approval, but with their active assistance.

    0
    0
  • A considerable hindrance to the development of the empire's resources has been the lack of an adequate system of communications; but although it is still deficient in good roads, much has been done of late years to develop railways, extend canals and improve river communications.

    0
    0
  • Shortly after Murad's accession the emperor Manuel, having applied in vain for the renewal of the annual subsidy paid him by the late sultan for retaining in safe custody Mustafa, an alleged son of Bayezid, released the pretender.

    0
    0
  • Selim, the late sultan's nephew, who succeeded, made strenuous preparations for continuing the war, but his generals were incompetent and his army mutinous; expeditions for the relief of Bender and Akkerman failed, Belgrade was taken by the Austrians, Izmail was captured by Suvorov, and the fall of Anapa completed the series of Turkey's disasters.

    0
    0
  • But he arrived too late; Selim had already been killed; the unworthy Mustafa was put to death, and Mahmud, the sole survivor of the house of Osman, became sultan.

    0
    0
  • Mack knew that the Russians would be late at the rendezvous on the Inn.

    0
    0
  • The whole army, upwards of 120,000 men, could therefore have - been concentrated against Lannes and Augereau by the afternoon of the 13th, whilst Soult could only have intervened very late in the day, and Davout and Bernadotte were still too distant to reach the battlefield before the 14th.

    0
    0
  • But with the struggle raging before him he remained undecided, until at Jena the decision had clearly fallen, and then he crossed the river and arrived with fresh troops too late for their services to be required.

    0
    0
  • The troops arrived late at their appointed positions, and after a stubborn rearguard action at Pultusk itself and undecisive fighting elsewhere (Soldau-Golymin) the Russians succeeded in retreating beyond the jaws of the French attack, and Napoleon for the first time found that he had exceeded the limit of endurance of his men.

    0
    0
  • He then determined to unite his forces at Joukendorf, but again he was too late.

    0
    0
  • Thus, when late on the 7th of February 1807 Murat and Soult overtook the enemy near Eylau (q.v.) the fighting was severe but not prolonged.

    0
    0
  • But here too the weather and the state of the roads operated adversely, for Ney came up too late, while Davout, in the full tide of his victorious advance, was checked by the arrival of Lestocq, whose corps Ney had failed to intercept, Campaign Of 1807 In Poland And Prussia Scale.

    0
    0
  • English assistance came too late.

    0
    0
  • There has also sprung up of late years considerable direct trade between the European and American markets and Bagdad, and several foreign houses, especially English, have established themselves there.

    0
    0
  • Under substantially its present name, Akukafa, it is mentioned as a place of importance in connexion with the canals as late as the Abbasid caliphate.

    0
    0
  • Ordinarily the sessions were held in the morning, but evening sessions were also frequent, often extending late into the night.

    0
    0
  • In the south the season is usually without killing frost from early in May to late in September, but in the north it is not uncommon late in May or early in September.

    0
    0
  • As Roman implements and ornaments have been found in some of them, it is plain that this mode of burial continued to be practised until a late period.

    0
    0
  • But he retained the possession of his wife's dowerlands in Champagne, and is described in an official document of Champagne so late as the year 1287, as "the Count Edmund."

    0
    0
  • His earliest publications, beginning with A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry (1860) and The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry (1861), were exclusively mathematical; but late in the year 1865 he published, under the pseudonym of "Lewis Carroll," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a work that was the outcome of his keen sympathy with the imagination of children and their sense of fun.

    0
    0
  • It was now late and the Allies, after moving a few miles down both banks of the Nivelle, bivouacked, while Soult, taking advantage of the respite, withdrew in the night to Bayonne.

    0
    0
  • Io), and the (late) description of its appearance represents it as an oblong box 22 cubits long, IZ cubits in breadth and height (roughly 1.2 by.

    0
    0
  • Its principal imports are coffee (of which it is the greatest continental market), tea, sugar, spices, rice, wine (especially from Bordeaux), lard (from Chicago), cereals, sago, dried fruits, herrings, wax (from Morocco and Mozambique), tobacco, hemp, cotton (which of late years shows a large increase), wool, skins, leather, oils, dyewoods, indigo, nitrates, phosphates and coal.

    0
    0
  • Art industries, particularly those which appeal to the luxurious taste of the inhabitants in fitting their houses, such as wall-papers and furniture, and those which are included in the equipment of ocean-going steamers, have of late years made rapid strides and are among the best productions of this character of any German city.

    0
    0
  • The number of emigrant Germans has enormously decreased of late years, Russia and Austria-Hungary now being most largely represented.

    0
    0
  • The malady causing the greatest number of deaths is that of pulmonary consumption; but better housing accommodation has of late years reduced the mortality from this disease very considerably.

    0
    0
  • An enormous development of agricultural resources has taken place within the Brahmaputra basin of late years, chiefly in the direction of tea cultivation, as well as in the production of jute and silk.

    0
    0
  • As late as the 6th century these garments were common both to the clergy and laity, and, so far as their character was concerned, were used both in the liturgy and in everyday life.

    0
    0
  • Of late years a considerable amount of seamless tubing has been made, much in the same way as lead piping, by forcing the mixed rubber through a die, and curing as above.

    0
    0