Past Sentence Examples
They had to move forward, and leave the past behind them.
It was past midnight.
He brushed past her.
Don't look at the past so negatively.
Lisa brushed past Giddon without looking at him.
If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it.
But you must remember I'm old, and my dashing days are past and gone.
He was right, to a degree It isn't the past that I'm pitching you, Alex.
She stood, frozen with fear as his dark figure moved past her.
All your court has been looking for you for the past two hours.
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She had to stop thinking about the past that way.
It was time to put the past where it belonged.
That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.
The birth of her child was imminent, if not past due.
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It's the lessons we learned from the past.
The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor.
Avoiding his eyes as she walked past him, she tried not to limp.
If you weren't appreciated, you wouldn't have made it past the first trip.
AdvertisementShe led him first down the hallway where the gym was, pointing out the locker rooms and weapons room before taking him to the second floor to Jonny's wing and past her doorless room.
Doubtless the work of the past few months does seem like a triumphal march to him; but then people seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
All night long troops were moving past the inn.
I didn't get past the perfume counter.
Drive past Tatarinova, a lot of digging is going on there.
AdvertisementWhat is it? he asked, but his comrade was already galloping off past Vasili the Beatified in the direction from which the screams came.
Maybe that was what made him such a good salesman in the past.
You keep telling me it's in the past - until you can dig it back up and throw it in my face again.
They walked past Darian, with the Black God hesitating before continuing on.
And as I look to the past and the present, I see two phenomena that especially drive my optimism.
Where?... he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage.
With the photos in her hands, the fertilized eggs were a thing of the past.
He stopped thinking about the past and his gaze seemed to come to the present.
If Katie hadn't disclosed that incident to her before she met Alex, would he have revealed that facet of his past?
In every mirror, dust obliterated her past.
On the other hand, she hadn't asked Len to look into Yancey's past.
His voice was soft, anger suddenly a thing of the past.
Allen was the past and Yancey the future.
Why go through all that pain again, when she had almost succeeded in putting him in the past - almost, but not quite.
My past is such an enigma; I don't know any of the details.
The article listed past instances of use, admitting on rare occasions the psychic proved helpful to police investigations.
Whoever the guy in the Blazer was, he gave Edith the look-see when he drove past Bird Song.
I'm ready to forgive you, but we're never going to put this in the past if you keep up this farce.
He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.
She felt the sudden urge to run again, as far as she could from her past, Talia's death, the bleak future of the White God and his Guardians.
But she let Jonny's words slide, as she did everything else he'd said to her the past few days.
He'd taken a few different vamps to his bed the past few days.
The Darian she'd left behind two weeks ago hadn't resolved his issues with his past.
With a complexion like hers, he was often mistaken as her brother, a similarity they'd used in the past to keep people from finding out she was Damian's mate.
History is full of radical breaks with the past that only seem to have come out of nowhere but were, in fact, predictable.
I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive.
They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.
One of the generals who drove past was an acquaintance of the Rostovs', and Petya thought of asking his help, but came to the conclusion that that would not be a manly thing to do.
He did not know how or when this thought had taken such possession of him, but he remembered nothing of the past, understood nothing of the present, and all he saw and heard appeared to him like a dream.
A yellow ball of hissing fur flew past her.
Think of the possibilities if by the remote chance Howie is envisioning the past!
I still won't buy these apparitions are trips to the past.
The pregnancy had not been an easy one, especially not with the excitement of the past few months.
Darian has to leave his past behind, or we're all screwed.
She released a deep sigh, finger lingering on the names from her past.
You lost everything in the worst way possible yet you don't let your past cripple you like it does … others, she managed.
She couldn't help hurting for him, all too sensitive to the scars left by her own past.
I've treated you like shit the past few days.
I remembered them, she stumbled, unaccustomed to revealing her past.
She stood where she was as Darian swept past her to the kitchen.
Only when he'd been broken and faced his past had he been able to let go of his own demons.
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.
Could Howie really see scenes from the past?
Our inquiries are directed toward the accuracy of what you're seeing; did those scenes actually occur in the past.
Tell me you won't spy on our past!
Instead we speculated on what we'd personally do if we had this gift or curse and it proved to be a true trip to the past.
Imagine, not having a past.
I love you anyway and I've quit twisting your arm about trying to dig up the past.
He's the only one who is a direct threat and that's due to our coming so close to getting him in the past.
I doubt it and Howie won't use his ability to revisit his past and learn.
She'd located two promising missing children cases from the past forty-eight hours.
She moved past me to the living room with a plate of muffins and coffee.
That's all in the past.
Howie, I really feel for you but you've had this problem of not knowing about your past for a long time and you've managed to live with it.
This opened up an interesting gateway to Howie's past.
Maybe that tidbit will take his mind off this obsession with his past.
The hair on the back of his neck had been standing for the past mile he'd walked, only he wasn't entirely certain why.
I, too, had my guard pulled down by my past.
While he never owned up to it, Betsy and I knew he retained records of ventures into the deeper past, where Howie refused to go.
The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.
After all, no one in history has ever been able to look into the past the way we do.
You could be there, for any events in your past.
All four trips brought him back several years in the past.
I could sense Howie's abhorrence at visiting his past.
We can address the issue of your past later when things have calmed down.
Little was said of our clandestine activities of the past year as we simply enjoyed each other's company.
Her words fueled the sense of dread he'd felt the past two weeks, since he'd lost contact with his closest friends.
She eyed it nervously, not wanting to venture past the safety of the bedroom.
She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.
Choppy scenes of the boy's past and future blinked into her thoughts.
It's gotta be well past midnight!
He looked at his watch, satisfied to see it was past dawn despite the storm-blackened sky.
His brothers weren't any closer than they had been, but the sound of their voices made him realize how alone he'd really felt the past two weeks.
You know what I've been doing for the past few months?
Jonny's brown eyes, now black, traveled past Dusty to Damian.
His erratic moods had grown more volatile the past couple of days, and she knew better than to draw his attention.
His voice had calmed, and he started past her.
Jule slept past dawn then into midday.
Have you been there for the past two days? her father asked.
The vamp bowed his head and pushed past Jenn.
His face was drawn as he strode past Jenn.
They Transported to the mountainside again, and the cold wind swept past him.
The past few days had turned her beliefs on end.
He continued past her, up the hill once more.
I haven't been able to get you out of my cube for the past two weeks.
Her headache was now a migraine, and she shielded her eyes against the light from the street that filtered past her honeycomb blinds.
I couldn't get past his secretary.
I don't hold our past against you at all.
You will see my past.
Han eyed her as she hurried past him toward the library.
I've seen you around a lot the past couple of days.
Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.
She can't pick up anything past this point.
I'll check the records to see which Guardians rotated here from Europe from the past year.
Nope, though I've only let her past the barrier once.
The second traitor came soon after, a man whose past stunned her.
He'd not had to work too hard for confessions in the past thousand years, not after word of his cold, methodological skills leaked to the Guardians.
Furious, she stood and breezed past him, not surprised when he opted not to ride home with her.
Dean promised himself to keep driving past the building if the deputy Larkin's car was in evidence, but only the sheriff's vehicle was present.
I'm not sure I'd put it past him, slipping it into Billy's Jeep just so he could bust him.
He started to move past them but Dean blocked the way.
The gravel road led past a small subdivision, then a few individual houses and small but beautiful Lake Lenoir, before climbing into the open and leading to a beautiful panorama of the Uncompahgre Valley and the snow-capped mountains to the west.
Once past the open vista, the road deteriorated, dropping into the forest on federal land.
Dean left the cell confident that the old man was coping, but he was beginning to mirror Fred's concern with his past.
She had changed into a halter and shorts and brushed past him without a word.
We'd sort of made a pact that our lives began when we met each other so the past wasn't discussed much, if at all.
He's a mighty nasty fellow and if he was as mad as you say, I wouldn't put it past him to hurt her.
Then he smiled, no doubt remembering past times with David Dean—times he regretted similar words.
It was well past midnight when the Deans looked in on their sleeping guest before retiring themselves.
I'm not sure I'd put anything past Ms. Larkin.
As she watched Cora, Deidre began to think she'd missed a lot over the past few months despite trying to pay attention to the human world.
It was past dark, and she was dozing on the couch.
Show me the deals past-Death and my mate made with the Dark One within the past year.
But she remembered everything from the past twenty-six years.
Maybe Rhyn was right and the past didn't matter so much.
Forced into hiding by the circumstances of the past two weeks, Gabriel's yearning for his mate emerged stronger than ever at her passionate kisses and touch.
Gabriel had to let the past go.
He had no idea what she'd been through the past few days at the hands of Darkyn.
Your past is irrelevant.
You won't get past my demons this time, half-breed.
It had never been his intention to hide his past from Carmen.
Still, there were some things that would be better left in the past.
They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.
No wonder she went someplace where no one knew her past.
Maybe this man had a seedy past – or present, life.
That confidence had always been conveyed in conversation in the past.
If its contents were like the reports she'd seen in the past, it would be full medical nonsense.
At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.
You've lived on your terms the past few years.
Just like every other soul collector Gabriel sent out the past week, Harmony had gone on a mission and returned empty-handed.
He could see the Past and Present.
As much as she cared for him, he was driving her crazy the past few months.
It was past dusk, and bonfires were springing up down the beach.
What he used to be, before the events of the past year.
He reached out to rest a hand on her belly, as he did every time they met the past few months.
It was past dark, and she'd come to his cabin most nights for the past two months.
You couldn't get past the pictures, could you?
The past few months, I've come close to breaking it hundreds of times to keep the underworld from shutting down.
Somewhere along the past few months, he lost his way.
After all we've been through together the past few years, you should've been an open book.
Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.
Deidre moved past him timidly, expecting him to attack her.
I am the same friend you've had the past few years.
He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.
No reassurance he'd be able to get past their history, no expression of wanting to be with her.
I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.
You were a helluva lot easier to bed in your past life.
Deidre didn't expect to see it, not after how he'd treated her the past few days.
Neither, he decided, was his past.
He'd spent the past three nights in bed with another woman after completely destroying her whole world!
It felt good to laugh after the events of the past week.
Whatever happened to him over the past few days, he was no longer willing to walk away or back down.
You are now everything I wished you were in a past life.
The deity you were in a past life started the chain of events that put us here by breaking laws from the time-before-time.
He led her past closed doors and through hallways carved out of black stone.
Only the long-dead Oracle possessing the book and the deities could see the Past, Present, and Future.
There were pictures on her mantle of the two of them together when he was younger, toys piled into a box near her couch, a school lunch menu and more pictures -- these apparently from past Halloweens --on the bulletin board on one wall of the kitchen.
McGillen's, like you have for the past few months.
I have a feeling you know already what the past two days have been like.
It's been calm for the past few hundred years, but I don't think any of us have forgotten that five hundred year period where we were at each other's throats.
Jade stormed out of the study and shoved past two warriors in the hallway.
He held out an arm she ignored, instead marching past him.
She nearly leapt past her escort when he entered the banquet hall, the scents of roasted meat and a million other things making her stomach roar.
Katie looked past him, gasping.
She'd lived through too much the past few days to be eaten by some boogeyman in a dark cell!
He stalked past her, his anger palpable.
He stared past her.
The sand in the hourglass had begun to fall faster the past two days.
She'd grown up never having seen death, and in the past week, she'd seen it in its most gruesome forms.
She reached the top of the stairs and stared at a similar scene leading past the Arch and all the way up the park toward the city.
Rhyn shoved past Kiki into a small courtyard.
There were more buildings past the hallway to her right.
Katie trailed the fit woman through the hallway, past her room, and down a second corridor.
I've gotten so many…marks…the past couple of weeks.
Daniela cried, and flew past her toward the rocks.
They crossed through a common area with a kitchenette and large, flat-screen TV, past a gym, a library, and a few other common rooms, and into the barracks area, which bustled with activity.
She wouldn't put it past him.
Hannah's eyes widened, and she rose, angling her past the butler and a maid dusting a painting to the second floor.
She frowned and he breezed past her, pulling the door open before the woman on the other side could knock.
Maybe that's all in the past.
I.ve done almost everything you asked me to the past few weeks.
She started past him.
Kris strode past him and led him through the castle's ground floor, whose wide, carpeted halls felt nice on his paws.
He.d heard these words more than once over the past few days and couldn.t help the small part of him that agreed.
She couldn.t eat, feeling more stressed than she had in the past three weeks.
The maid turned, looking past her, and Katie spun away.
Rhyn.s voice made her heart skip a beat, and she craned her neck to see past Jared, who whirled.
The healers moved to the other side of the Immortal world, past Elisia and closer to Hell.
I have to check on Toby, she said and moved past him before she changed her mind.
She.d been acting squirrelly the past two days.
Katie gasped and flattened herself against the wall as they soared past them.
Darkyn strode past him, and Jade bowed his head again.
Romas had tossed her in bed more than once over the past three months, though he had stopped lecturing her on how unbecoming a lush was to a man looking for a wife.
Evelyn had been so happy the past few months, and having Romas around was not that bad.
She'd known Evelyn since they were in elementary school, and she'd been renting a room from her for the past two years since graduating high school.
Her plan, while brilliant when plotted the past month, didn't seem quite so wonderful right now.
All she had to do was choose the color she wanted to wear-- black for the past several days in silent objection to her presence aboard the ship-- and the ship's computer wove it for her.
She leaned to see past Romas and saw that the tent before her was only the head tent.
They cast several glances her way and appeared as interested in her as they were in looking past her.
He pushed her past him and joined in the conversation.
Kiera offered a smile and hurried past them, heart pounding and face red with embarrassment.
A startled cry drew her attention, and she leaned to see past him.
They couldn't have been past thirteen but rivaled her in height.
In the past three days, he hadn't made a single change before releasing the plans to his battle commanders.
She felt tears in her eyes at the small reminder of her past life and hugged the gifts to her chest.
It was past dark fall when she finished, and she gazed at her last sketch, intrigued by it.
She heard the runner before she saw him and watched as one of the warriors breezed past her toward Ne'Rin.
He started past her, then paused, returning to her side to remove the translator from her ear.
In the past few days, he'd learned just how unready he was to be the lifemate of his own nishani.
The battle waged just past the next range.
It was past sunrise, so she rose and flung off her bed covers.
Evelyn removed the obstacle from the door and snagged the tarantula cat as it darted past her.
Despite the piercing gaze she'd never quite gotten used to, she stepped past Jetr and looked up at her mate, taking him in breathlessly once again.
Now that you're past forty and bordering on geezerdom, you're beginning to sound like a dirty old man.
This here was a boarding house, at least at one time in the past.
It's past my bedtime anyway.
Has he hurt you in the past?
Dean's past involvements with Sheriff Weller had always managed to cause the lawman untold grief.
While the two maintained mutual respect, Jake Weller appeared unsettled in Dean's presence, a combination of insecurity over Dean's more extensive experience and memories of past encounters that had pushed the lawman into compromising situations.
Dean tried to picture the bustling town of a century past, at one time home to a dozen saloons, four restaurants, a newspaper, nearly three hundred houses and more than a thousand inhabitants.
By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.
As they passed the plowed pullout for the cutoff to Engineer pass, they were reminded of the past June and their mountain-camping honeymoon, up this road and into Poughkeepsie Gulch.
After all, every occasion in the past when he'd gotten in deep do-do with the sheriff, it was for holding back information.
You know and I know Fred's past is his business.
The winter season precluded the front porch rocking chair conferences of last summer and since the past autumn the group's confabs had been replaced with side-of-the-bed meetings in the Deans' quarters.
She looked past David Dean to his wife.
At Ryland's urging they crossed the bridge past the area where the main activities of the ice festival were being assembled for the weekend.
Instead I ambled past the house where I am to trade a damp and soiled mattress for domestic duties when arrangements are finally made by Joshua.
I just wish she had been able to escape and draw a curtain on her past like Fred O'Connor and move into a secure and happy life.
Well, I'm sure Fred wasn't a hooker but I'm content to accept him on a present day basis, regardless of why he's so protective of his past.
You must have wondered about Fred's past at times.
At some point his past may crawl out of the ground and bite him on the butt, but it won't be because I did the digging.
He hesitated, reluctant to return to his room, past Ryland's door from which might be expelled the naked visitor, just as he passed by.
They glided past snow-covered fields and occasional farmhouses, drifting smoke from their chimneys skyward and adding a hint of wood smoke to the crisp winter air.
Dean took this to suggest Annie's true past remained a secret to the sharp-tongued woman.
Dean took off at a run, past more gawkers staring over the edge.
It's all past us.
The past half-year was the best six months of his life.
Dean realized from his past experience that being forthcoming and subjecting himself to interrogation without an attorney was naive but the entire idea of his trying to kill Shipton was so ludicrous in his mind, he tended to minimize the seriousness of the situation.
First and foremost was an overwhelming urge to punch his lights out but past similar responses hadn't produced positive results.
If Shipton let her know he knew all the dirt on Annie's past, that might throw a kibosh on the whole business.
It was after eight, long past his usual wake-up time.
He hit a comfortable pace and stayed there as he peddled past the cemetery and the open meadows where a herd of elk grazed near the river to his left, standing at attention near the edge of the tall cottonwoods that lined the bank.
Here the road was dry and only a few cars passed him before he drifted past a private hot spring, along the wide curve and by the County fairgrounds before entering Ridgway.
Belfair crept away from the castle of the lovely Queen Sinthee and her lazy mate Dorvad, past the kindly Fird of Kornor, mingling on the street with the commoners.
If she knows the truth about Annie's past, she isn't admitting it.
We can all talk about a bunch of 'ifs' but the past is past.
He passed the recently restored Beaumont Hotel, a beautiful structure that after several decades of disuse and deterioration had finally been returned to its past glory.
I think places hold the past.
She rose and announced it was far past her bedtime, in any time zone.
No, the events of two weeks past didn't make total sense, at least not yet, but Dean was suddenly interested, not in avoiding Jerome Shipton, but asking him some important questions.
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.
Once past that, the last hurdle was the human wanting to be turned.
Lisa will be fine and there is nothing we can do about the past.
He didn't want to keep anything from Elisabeth, yet felt unable to explain his past.
The past isn't important to me.
It was a ritual they had been performing morning and night for the past two weeks.
It was past nine when Alex and Josh paid their bills, and the faint sound of thunder met them at the door.
He said he wanted her, but in truth, he was still involved with the past.
I've put the past behind me.
I thought you had put that in the past.
Completely forgetting about the past is tossing away a valuable lesson.
Then he mounted and rode past her.
And then you're such a strange combination of the past and present.
She was uneasy lingering on the events of the past week.
The road edged a thatch of forest past the water treatment plant and the power plant, and circled the central command hub in which she worked before leading to the main entrance of the compound.
Isn't it past your bedtime?
The dates were all from the past week, and she recognized two of the originating net codes as being from Mr. Tim and General Greene.
He peered past the first gate.
Past the fencing was a sandy stretch where the landmines awaited those foolish enough to cross.
They opened, and he led his team past the layers of security into the facility.
She snatched it and swept past him, popping it open as she neared a wall covered in a titanium glass screen.
In the past forty-eight hours, there had been fifty perimeter breaches, all from the west wall.
It was past dark, and the camp was filled with men and tents as far as she could see.
Brady, Dan, and another man breezed past her.
In time the trees began to thin and patches of old snow appeared in ever increasing numbers, tucked in dark crevices, left over from winter storms of months long past.
They rolled past South Fork, and 20 miles later, Del Norte, where the lead cadre of bikers hummed their way toward Monte Vista, 14 miles further, and then the final 17 miles to Alamosa.
The sun was warm and he walked with a slight limp but an easy stride, past the shops of the small central section to the west side of the quiet town.
Jenn hesitated before moving past him.
She'd lost too much weight over the past couple of weeks.
She had to accept her past before she, too, could move on.
I came here to bury the past and the immortal world.
I don't have to be your past.
His eyes went past Claire for a moment, to the dark figure waiting by the tree line.
The warm-cool sensations swept past her.
Her past was about to become permanently gone.
The guardsmen stared past her, and Jenn turned at last, horrified to see the obelisk teetering.
It came in the form of letting go of her past and embracing her future, not trying to fix something that couldn't be fixed.
This night's journey was simpler than the past few journeys, as no enemy territory stood between her kingdom and her ally.
They climbed a set of wide, sweeping stone stairs that led up to the building, past towering columns, and into an airy chamber without a ceiling.
He maneuvered past the two trailing guards and slowed his horse behind Sirian.
As I've done the past two days?
How many men had died in the past month alone defending her?
Ledden patted her arm and moved past her.
She raised her head enough to look past Taran's leg.
Suddenly, the boy's gaze sharpened, and he pushed past him, stopping after a few steps.
Our numbers have plummeted the past year, and I don't understand the placement of our army.
You do not think it could have changed in the past half a day?
When she trekked through the lit halls of her home it was well past midnight - -even Sirian would be sleeping.
The beast within had been restless the past two days, prowling the thawing area of her chest.
Taran shot her an angry look and pushed her past him, pinning her still against the wall with one arm.
She kept her head low as she walked her horse past scouts perched on boulders and hidden within trees.
The men turned and looked at her dismissively, but he pushed past them, snatching her arm.
It was past nightfall, and shadows and light from the hearth danced around him.
Don't be distracted by him or even your own past.
Her gaze brushed past him and rested on Aaron, who was eyeing the bison with obvious concern.
Carmen nodded, thinking Sam was going to comment on his past.
He glanced up at her as they walked past the porch.
As she heard the door to the garage close, a voice passed over her – a ghost from the past.
In the past he would have been livid.
We've all participated in naming the animals in the past.
The time for words was past.
You've come up with some crazy ideas in the past, but this time you've gone off the deep end.
It was past noon and she had skipped breakfast.
He stepped past her into the room.
The sun was well past its zenith and headed toward the trees on the west side of the cabin.
This is the fourth event in the past few days.
She breezed past him towards the entrance.
It was past sundown, and he was already hungry again.
After the past few days, she'd take her tiny victory.
She breezed past him.
He swatted her ass as she marched past him out of the elevator.
He drove them up the coast, past the exit to his condo and onward to the hills of Los Angeles.
She'd been arguing with him over texts for the past hour.
A gust of cold, night air swept past her, and she hurried out.
Ashley's face flushed, and she pushed past Xander.
Purple lightening sizzled past her towards Xander.
She scanned over the comfortable furniture and past the living room to a large kitchen and dining area before her gaze returned to the two forms seated on the balcony.
In 1697 Andre Briie reached the island of Morfil, while in 1608 he penetrated past the Felu Falls.
Owing to the historical past of Naples, and its social and economic condition at the end of the 17th century, the only study that really flourished there was that of law; and this soon penetrated from the courts to the university, and was raised to the level of a science.
As in children, imagination and the senses prevailed in those men of the past.
In great state the tribune moved through the streets of Rome, being received at St Peter's with the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, while in a letter the poet Petrarch urged him to continue his great and noble work, and congratulated him on his past achievements, calling him the new Camillus, Brutus and Romulus.
In the past many conflicting estimates were made of the character and achievements of the pope during whose pontificate Protestantism first took form.
A theory that has received much support in the past attributes the reflections to thin bubbles of water, similar to soap-bubbles, in which form vapour was supposed to condense.
It first takes a northerly and north-westerly course, and in a deep and well-wooded valley winds past the romantically situated town of Arnsberg.
There is also a road through Nora and along the coast past Sulci to Metalla and Neapolis, and thence to Othoca.
For the purposes of a concordat the state recognizes the official status of the church and of its ministers and tribunals; guarantees it certain privileges; and sometimes binds itself to secure for it subsidies representing compensation for past spoliations.
The decennium extending from 1550 to 1560 was the good period of Ivan IV.'s reign, when he deliberately broke away from his disreputable past and surrounded himself with good men of lowly origin.
It was an exciting chase of king by king, in which each covered the ground by incredible exertions, shedding their slower-going followers as they went, past Rhagae (Rai) and the Caspian gates, till early one morning Alexander came in sight of the broken train which still clung to the fallen king.
Taps to baths and lavatories should be connected to the main services by a flow and return pipe so that hot water is constantly flowing past the tap, thus enabling hot water to be obtained immediately.
Owing to certain circumstances in its past history, Geneva was notoriously immoral.
While raising the taxes both on agricultural products and manufactured goods, this law introduced, between France and all the powers trading with her, relations different from those in the past.
The electoral districts so formed are expected to be equal in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but this method has led to much abuse in the past, through the making of unequal districts for partisan purposes.
Past elevations of land, however (and doubtless equally great subsidences) have taken place in South America since the Eocene, and the conclusion that extensive areas of land have subsided in the Indian Ocean has long been based on a somewhat similar distribution of giant tortoises in the Mascarene region.
The Guaira river, a branch of the Tuy, traverses the plain from west to east, and flows past the city on the south.
Its congeners even then lived in England, as is proved by the fact that their relics have been found in the Stonesfield oolitic rocks, the deposition of which is separated from that which gave rise to the Paris Tertiary strata by an abyss of past time which we cannot venture to express even in thousands of years.
The " mudfish " of Queensland (Ceratodus Forsteri) belongs to an ancient order of fishes - the Dipnoi, only a few species of which have survived from past geological periods.
The affairs of a tribe were ruled by a council of men past middle age.
Past experience constituted another important factor in establishing the interpretation of signs noted.
Death was the penalty for the least offence, and no past services - as Koes Mahommed was to find to his cost - were admitted in extenuation.
On account of this, it has been suggested that in a forgotten past the Sakai were themselves the fashioners of the stone implements, and certain it is that all tools which have no representatives among the stone kelts are known to the Sakai by obvious corruptions of their Malayan names.
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.
Whatever crimes might be charged against Charles, his past conduct might appear to be condoned by the act of negotiating with him.
In particular that conception which regarded "ambition" as the guiding motive in his career has been dispelled by a more intimate and accurate knowledge of his life; this shows him to have been very little the creator of his own career, which was largely the result of circumstances outside his control, the influence of past events and of the actions of others, the pressure of the national will, the natural superiority of his own genius.
A violent gust strikes the plate, which is driven back and carried by its own momentum far past the position in which a steady wind of the same force would place it; by the time the motion has reached the pen it has been greatly exaggerated by the springiness of the connexion, and not only is the plate itself driven too far back, but also its position is wrongly recorded by the pen; the combined errors act the same way, and more than double the real maximum pressure may be indicated on the chart.
Marconi causes the spark balls to move rapidly past each other or causes a studded disk to move between the spark balls.
The price is to be fixed by the Railway and Canal Commissioners as arbitrators on the basis of the " then value," exclusive of any allowance for past or future profits or any compensation for compulsory sale or other consideration.
Of these the Dora (called for distinctions sake Dora Riparia), which unites with the greater river just below Turin, has its source in the Mont Genèvre, and flows past Susa at the foot of the Mont Cenis.
Unfortunately several of these fertile tracts suffer severely from malaria (q.v.), and especially the great plain adjoining the Gulf of Tarentum, which in the early ages of history was surrounded by a girdle of Greek cities—some of which attained to almost unexampled prosperity—has for centuries past been given up to almost complete desolation.
The exportation of works of art and antiquities from Italy without leave of the ministry is forbidden (though it has in the past been sometimes evaded).
From Beneventum, another important road centre, the Via Appia itself ran south-east through the mountains past Venusia to Tarentum on the south-west coast of the heel, and thence across Calabria to Brundusium, while Trajans correction of it, following an older mule-track, ran north-east through the mountains and then through the lower ground of Apulia, reaching the coast at Barium.
It is one of the strongest instances furnished by history of the fascination exercised by an idea that the Italians themselves should have grown to glory in this dependence of their nation upon Caesars who had nothing but a name in common with the Roman Imperator of the past.
But the conditions under which it could arise, casting from itself all foreign and feudal trammels, recognizing its true past in ancient Rome, and reconstructing a civility out of the ruins of those glorious memories, were now at last granted.
It is also to be noticed that the people now began to be conscious of their past.
Rome, ever mindful of hei unique past, listened to Arnolds preaching.
Italy had entered on a new phase of her existence, and the great poets De monarchia represented a dream of the past which could not be realized.
Son of Attendolo Sforza, this Francesco received the hand of Filippos natural daughter, Bianca, as a reward for past service and a pledge of future support.
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.
Vincenzo Gioberti published in 1843 his famous treatise Del primato morale e civile degli Italiani, a work, which, in striking contrast to the prevailing pessimism of the day, extolled the past greatness and achievements of the Italian people and their present virtues.
Charles Louis, the opera Douffe duke of Lucca, who had coquetted with Liberalism in the past, now refused to make any concessions to his subjects, and in Ferdinand III.
Whereas in the past the strikes had been purely local and due to local conditions, they now appeared of more general and political character, and the sympathy strike came to be a frequent and undesirable addition to the ordinary economic agitation.
Herbert Spencer finds that the modern individual has intuitions of duty which represent the inherited experience of what has been good for the race in the past.
What the modern empiricist needs is a rational bond uniting the individual with the community or with the aggregate of individuals - a rational principle distinguishing high pleasures from low, sanctioning benevolence, and giving authority to moral generalizations drawn from conditions that are past and done with.
Will is noumenally free; but phenomenally, in all real exercises of will, we are determined by the past.
The present and the future have to be what the past and the absent make them.
Past events, " happening " to be what they were, have fixed subsequent processes to their channels.
Previously John, disregarding the custom of the past, had taken as much as he could extort.
He or she must not, as had been so often the case in the past, be forced to marry some royal favourite, or some one who had paid a sum of money for the privilege.
In the past John had evidently stretched his authority and seized lands over which others had really the right of wardship.
The king promises to make amends for the injuries he has done to his barons in the past.
By declaring, as it does, what were the laws and customs of a past age wherein justice prevailed, it shows what was the ideal of good government formed by John's prelates and barons.
The fossil shells, pottery and rude stone implements, found alike at the base and at the surface of these middens, prove that the habits of the islanders have not varied since a remote past, and lead to the belief that the Andamans were settled by their present inhabitants some time during the Pleistocene period, and certainly no later than the Neolithic age.
The condition of things can be imagined by supposing that in a medusa primitively of normal build, with tentacles at the margin, the umbrella has grown down past the insertion of the tentacles.
Passing now to the later schoolmen, a bare mention must be made of Thomas Aquinas, who elaborately argues for the absolute creation of the world out of nothing, and of Albertus Magnus, who reasons against the Aristotelian idea of the past eternity of the world.
The former distinctly argues against the idea of a deterioration of man in the past.
A still older road ran along the foot of the Volscian mountains past Cora, Norba and Setia; this served as the post road until the end of the 18th century.
A Roman road may have run past the site; coins, &c., have been found, and the district at any rate was inhabited in Roman times.
Experience with epidemics, dearly bought in the past, has shown that one fruitful cause is the laying open to the inroads of some Fungus or insect, hitherto leading a quiet endemic life in the fields and forests, large tracts of its special food, along which it may range rampant without check to its dispersal, nutrition and reproduction.
The former is concerned with the division of the earths surface into major districts characterized by particular plants or taxonomic groups of plants, with the subdivision of these floristic districts, and with the geographical distribution (both past and present) of the various taxonomic units, such as species, genera, and families.
This mattel- is bound up with the centres of origin and with the past migrations of species; and such questions are usually treated as a part of floristic plant geography.
The interesting occurrence of certain halophytes and hemi-halophytes on sea-shores and also on mountains is probably to be explained by the past distribution of the species in question.
The special function of this organ has been a source of controversy during the past few years, and much uncertainty still exists as to its true nature.
Our regions will not be natural unless they mark out real discontinuities both of origin and affinity, and these we can only seek to explain by reference to past changes in the earths history.
The actual and past distribution of plants must obviously be controlled by the facts of physical geography.
Alfred the Great, king of the Salons in England, not only educated his people in the learning of the past ages; he inserted in the geographical works he translated many narratives of the travel of his own time.
Australia and Polynesia By 87, 000,000 392,000,000 170,000,000 1 43, 000,000 7,000,000 influence of climate, and by the development of trade even to inhabit countries which cannot yield a food-supply, the mass of mankind is still completely under the control of those conditions which in the past determined the distribution and the mode of life of the whole human race.
The blood leaves the heart past three semi-lunar valves, by the right aorta, this being alone functional, a feature characteristic of, and peculiar to, birds.
Meanwhile the custom was growing up of appealing to eminent Church writers of a past generation under this name.
Here it is joined by the Kara Su (Teleboas), which, rising near Lake Van, runs past Wish and waters the plain.
Below the junction of the two arms the Euphrates flows south-west past the lead mines of Keban Maden, where it is 120 yds.
The majority of apologists in the past have further believed in an infallible Bible; but they admit this position can only be reached at a late stage in the argument.
It is this political rather than religious spirit which also underlies the repressive attitude of the government, and of the Orthodox Church as the organ of the government, towards the various dissident sects (Raskolniki, from raskol, schism), which for more than two centuries past have played an important part in the popular life of Russia, and, since the political developments of the end of the 19th and early years of the zoth century, have tended to do so more and more.
At the conclusion of the armistice in 1632, during a short interregnum in Poland, he attempted to avenge past injuries and recover lost territory; but the campaign was not successful, and in 1634 he signed a definitive treaty by no means favourable to Russia.
The idolatrous reaction in the reign of Manasseh appears to have restored all the evils of the past and added to them.
Nevada, and thence past the Colorado river into Arizona, is one of the richest mineral belts in the world.
With a more direct course, and in a widening, fertile valley it continues past Downton, Fordingbridge and Ringwood, skirting the New Forest on the west, to Christchurch, where it receives the Stour from the west, and 2 z m.
It flows east and south in a wide curve, through a broad upper valley past Chippenham and Melksham, after which it turns abruptly west to Bradford-on-Avon, receives the waters of the Frome from the south, and enters the beautiful narrow valley in which lie Bath and Bristol.
Its general direction thereafter remains south-westerly, and it flows past Stratfordon-Avon, receives the Stour on the south and the Arrow on the north and thence past Evesham and Pershore to Tewkesbury.
He wished the institutions of the present to approximate more closely to those of the past, and devised for the new French constitution a body of reforms which reflected the opinions he had formed upon the democracy at Rome and in ancient France.
We cannot perhaps assert that the same rate is to be continued for very many centuries, but it is plain that the further we look back into the past time the greater must the sun have been.
All the Old-French materials have not yet been thoroughly examined, and it is far from improbable that some versions of the book either remain to be detected or are now lost past recovery.
It is situated on the Findhorn, which sweeps past the town and is crossed by a suspension bridge about a mile to the W., 11 m.
Like many Oriental works it is a compilation, as may be illustrated from a comparison of Chronicles with Samuel - Kings, and the representation of the past in the light of the present (as exemplified in Chronicles) is a frequently recurring phenomenon.
Thus one may note the reshaping of older material to agree with later thought, the building up of past periods from the records of other periods, and a frequent loss of perspective.
From a variety of independent reasons one is forced to conclude that, whatever historical elements they may contain, the stories of this remote past represent the form which tradition had taken in a very much later age.
Although the latter have special late and unreliable features, they agree with the former in presenting the same general trend of past history.
It had a national history which left its impress upon the popular imagination, and sundry fragments of tradition reveal the pride which the patriot felt in the past.
He was slain at Megiddo in 608, and Egypt, as in the long-distant past, again held Palestine and Syria.
The old stories of earlier days encircle places which, though denounced for their corruption, were not regarded as illegitimate, and in the form in which the dim traditions of the past are now preserved they reveal an attempt to purify popular belief and thought.
The prophets who had marked in the past the advent of Assyrians and Chaldeans now fixed their eyes upon the advance of Cyrus, confident that the fall of Babylon would bring the restoration of their fortunes.
Its ideals culminate in Josiah (§ 16, end), and there is a strong presumption that it is intended to impress upon the new era the lessons drawn from the past.
There were catastrophes detrimental to the preservation of older literary records, and vicissitudes which, if they have not left their mark on contemporary history - which is singularly blank - may be traced on the representations of the past.
Bibilical history ends with the triumph of the Judaean community, the true " Israel," the right to which title is found in the distant past.
With his priests and Levites, and with the chiefs and nobles of the Jewish families, the high priest directs this small state, and his death marks an epoch as truly as did that of the monarchs in the past.
Although these and other phenomena cannot yet be safely placed in a historical frame, the methodical labours of past scholars have shed much light upon the obscurities of the exilic and post-exilic ages, and one must await the more comprehensive study of the two or three centuries which are of the first importance for biblical history and theology.
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.'
The righteous could only flee or hide, and so wait dreaming of the mercy of God past and to come.
They assert the citizenship and patriotism of Jews, their determination to accommodate themselves to the present as far as they could while retaining loyalty to the past.
He had no scholarly interest in the past, and he never hesitated to transform the texts when he could give contemporary "point" to a poem; but his instinct was good, and he did much to stimulate an ignorant public to fresh enjoyment.
During the past half-century the affairs of Crete have repeatedly occupied the attention of Europe.
Whereas the Hebrew verb is devoid of real tenses, and only expresses an action as completed or as in process without indicating time past, present or future, Syriac has by the help of an auxiliary verb constructed a set of tenses.
From it the Oxus, or Amu, flows off to the west, and the Jaxartes, or Syr, to the north, through the Turki state of Khokand, while to the east the waters run down past Kashgar to the central desert of the Gobi, uniting with the streams from the northern slope of the Tibetan plateau that traverse the principalities of Yarkand and Khotan, which are also Turki.
Unlike the Chinese and Indians, they have hitherto not had the smallest influence on the intellectual development of Asia, and though they have in the past sometimes shown themselves intensely nationalist and conservative, they have, compared with India and China, so little which is really their own that their assimilation of foreign ideas is explicable.
In both art and literature modern Asia is inferior to the past more conspicuously than Europe.
But perhaps the most interesting relic of the past in Saalfeld is the striking ruin of the Hoher Schwarm, called later the Sorbenburg, said to have been erected in the 7th century.
On the one hand, as a transcriber of the philo-Goth Cassiodorus, he magnifies the race of Alaric and Theodoric, and claims for them their full share, perhaps more than their full share, of glory in the past.
Moreover, the commerce des bles had been a favourite topic of the salons for some years past, and the witty Galiani, the opponent of the physiocrats, had a large following.
His neology is one among many instances of his contempt for the past and his wish to be clear of all association with it.
In the investigation of past times, the incommensurate elements of well-being are so numerous that merely money estimates are frequently misleading.
The economist frankly assumes the reality of the existing world and takes men as they are, or as they have been if he is studying past times.
In times past, and to a less extent in our own day, philosophical conceptions have formed the basis of great systems of politics and economics.
As in modern problems, so in those of past times, a man requires for success qualities quite distinct from those conferred by merely academic training and the use of scientific methods.
A correct sense of proportion and the faculty of seizing upon the dominant factors in an historical problem are the result partly of the possession of certain natural gifts in which many individuals and some nations are conspicuously wanting, partly of general knowledge of the working of the economic and political institutions of the period we are studying, partly of what takes the place of practical experience in relation to modern problems, namely, detailed acquaintance with different kinds of original sources and the historical imagination by which we can realize the life and the ideals of past generations.
Of what possible use are the works of the so-called classical writers, except in relation to the history of economics and the practical influence of theory in past times ?
If we take the mere popular view of what is meant by the " old Political Economy," that is, that a generation or so ago economics was comprised in a neatly rounded set of general propositions, universally accepted, which could be set forth in a question we have really to determine is how we can make the best use of the accumulated knowledge of past generations, and to do that we must look more closely into the economic science of the 10th century..
This may serve to show that the ideals of our youth were not without justification; but the younger generation, which does not care about our ideals, and looks to the future rather than the past, will not read annotated editions of old books, however eminent their authors.
The legend goes that Mahmud had in the meanwhile despatched the promised hundred thousand pieces of gold to Firdousi, with a robe of honour and ample apologies for the past.
The united river flows north to Grimma and thence past Wurzen, Eilenburg and Bitterfeld to Dessau, where it joins the Elbe.
For some five months past the two emperors had been exchanging their views as to the future of the world.
If ever a man was condemned by his past, Napoleon was so in 1815.
There was a slight decline of £300,000 in the total of these estimates; but this was merely a pause after the £12,000,000 increase of the past three years; and by the summer a new German navy law necessitated a supplementary estimate of about a million.
We are therefore entitled to assume that the suppressed wings of Exopterygota tend to reappear; and, speaking of the past, we may say that if after a period of suppression the wings began to reappear as hypodermal buds while a more rigid pressure was exerted by the cuticle, the growth of the buds would necessarily be inwards, and we should have incipient endopterygotism.
It is almost certain that more than half the zoologists of the British Islands for many years past have been infected with their love of the study of Gilbert White; and it can hardly be supposed that his influence will cease.
Then his papers were handed over to his friend and successor Professor Burmeister, now and for many years past of Buenos Aires, who, with meister.
For some time past rumours of a discovery of the highest interest had been agitating the minds of zoologists, for in 1861.
The interiors have been modified past recognition of their original disposition.
Pisano's building sheds, nine in a row, with peculiarly shaped roofs, were still standing intact - one of the most interesting medieval monuments of Venice - until recently, but they have been modified past recognition.
Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia possess suitable climatic conditions, and in the first-named state the cotton has been grown on a commercial scale in past years, the crop in 1897 being about 450 bales.
A Manchester cotton-importing company was recently formed for increasing deliveries direct to Manchester, and establishing a " spot " market there, an end to which the Manchester Cotton Association had directed its efforts for some time past.
This question can readily be answered as regards the past forty years or so, for which material g p y y ?
If the fishing operation is unsuccessful the well has to be abandoned, often after months of labour, unless it is found possible to drill past the tools which have been lost.
The Crusade was now at last answered by the counter-Crusade - the jihad; for though for many years past Saladin had, in his attempt to acquire all the inheritance of Nureddin, left Palestine unmenaced and intact, his ultimate aim was always the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem.
Here, with the burden of the day now past, the fine old crusader - he had joined before in the Second Crusade, forty years ago - perished by accident in the river; and of all his fine army only a thousand men won their way through, under his son, Frederick of Swabia, to join the ranks before Acre (October 1190).
Particularly in the first quarter of the 14th century, writers were busy in explaining the causes of the failures of past Crusades, and in laying down the lines along which a new Crusade must proceed.
The Boers proved more successful than they had been in the past, and occupied several of the Basuto strongholds.
It soon becomes the boundary for a while between the departments of the HautesAlpes and of the Basses-Alpes, and receives successively the considerable Ubaye river, flowing from near the foot of Monte Viso past Barcelonnette (left), and then the small stream of the Luye (right), on which, a few miles above, is Gap. It enters the Basses-Alpes shortly before reaching Sisteron, where it is joined (right) by the wild torrent of the Busch, flowing from the desolate region of the Devoluy, and receives the Bleone (left) (on which Digne, the capital of the department, is situated) and the Asse (left), before quitting the department of the Basses-Alpes just as it is reinforced (left) by the Verdon, flowing from the lower summits of the Maritime Alps past Castellane.
If he had not given a definite pledge to forgive the bishops who had taken part in the young king's coronation, he had at least raised expectations that he would overlook all past offences.
The museums, enriched by a constant inflow of works of art and inscriptions, have been carefully and scientifically arranged, and afford opportunities for systematic study denied to scholars of the past generation.
The prestige of her past history had now perhaps attained its zenith.
When very young he showed his interest in the past history of his native land, and in 1617, at the age of twenty-three, he had set to work looking through archives, copying charters, and corresponding with the principal men of learning of his time, the brothers Dupuy, Andre Duchesne and Jean Besly, whom he visited in Poitou.
During the past few years a new movement has been started in the shape of lecture schools, lasting for longer or shorter periods, for the purpose of studying Biblical,.
The existence of these Christian elements in the text misled nearly every scholar for the past four hundred years into believing that the book itself was a Christian apocryph.
At the close of the first decade of the 10th century it might be said that over the greater part of Africa slave raiding was a thing of the past.
The litanies of the Yasna, and the Yashts, refer to him as a personage belonging to the past.
The life of man falls into two parts - its earthly portion and that which is lived after death is past.