Use "past times" in a sentence
past times example sentences
past times
1. As she walked she allowed her thoughts to wander, reliving past times; happy moments spent in Brockenhurst Sett
2. "In past times there would be a Healer to help in such a situation, indeed there would
3. And in past times some men have sunk so low,
4. “distances” between both future and past times are eliminated - and time travel becomes
5. As Rayz Moonmaid, of the Raven Clan, looked around she saw Clan Chieftains, who in past times having had vowed death to each other were now sitting together, talking, laughing and actually building what seemed to be a comradery
6. The imperialized forces ruled over Zulimistan before and absurdities prevailed in the past times
7. Hobbies of the rich and famous, always trying to one-up each other with expensive past times
8. If you now call to mind your past times and search in the depth of your spirit, you will see what has been printed in it
9. and decreasing the deficit, but his expenses beat the past times of having a
10. On past times when Maiorescu and Placid had been at the sanatorium, they'd been at least an hour or more
11. The scene reminded Bohdan of past times when he was younger, working as a slave trader
12. And ask yourself if you would have wanted to live like them in those past times… to slave your entire life away; to please these elite Palace dwellers
13. If those past times had seen her like,
14. Know that you have here before you (open your eyes and you will see) that great knight of whom the sage Merlin has prophesied such great things; that Don Quixote of La Mancha I mean, who has again, and to better purpose than in past times, revived in these days knight-errantry, long since forgotten, and by whose intervention and aid it may be we shall be disenchanted; for great deeds are reserved for great men
15. Oh that I could see burnt and turned to ashes the first man that meddled with knight-errantry or at any rate the first who chose to be squire to such fools as all the knights-errant of past times must have been! Of those of the present day I say nothing, because, as your worship is one of them, I respect them, and because I know your worship knows a point more than the devil in all you say and think
16. It would be a vain thing of me to deny, that, at the beginning of my career, I was misled by the wily examples of the past times, who thought that, in taking on them to serve the community, they had a privilege to see that they were full-handed for what benefit they might do the public; but as I gathered experience, and saw the rising of the sharp-sighted spirit that is now abroad among the affairs of men, I clearly discerned that it would be more for the advantage of me and mine to act with a conformity thereto, than to seek, by any similar wiles or devices, an immediate and sicker advantage
17. I therefore resolved to set my face against this for the future; and accordingly, when we had enjoyed a jocose temperance of loyalty and hilarity, with a decent measure of wine, I filled a glass, and requesting all present to do the same, without any preliminary reflections on the gavaulling of past times, I drank good afternoon to each severally, and then rose from the table, in a way that put an end to all the expectations of more drink
18. Then, out of remote areas of his soul, out of past times of his now weary life, a sound stirred up
19. Was this not the river in which he had intended to drown himself, in past times, a hundred years ago, or had he dreamed this?
20. So it is if we look to past times, and compare the species which have just passed away with those still living within the same areas; or if we compare the fossil species embedded in the sub-stages of the same geological formation
21. As the late Edward Forbes often insisted, there is a striking parallelism in the laws of life throughout time and space; the laws governing the succession of forms in past times being nearly the same with those governing at the present time the differences in different areas
22. And the young revellers of past times
23. “The question is connected with the following anecdote of past times; for I am obliged to relate a story
24. Therefore all the probabilities are that those in authority were in past times, as they are in present, worse men than those they ruled over
25. Why do good men and even women, who have certainly no interest in war, go into raptures over the various exploits of Skobeloff and others, and vie with one another in glorifying them? Why do men, who are not obliged to do so, and get no fee for it, devote, like the marshals of nobility in Russia, whole months of toil to a business physically disagreeable and morally painful—the enrolling of conscripts? Why do all kings and emperors wear the military uniform? Why do they all hold military reviews, why do they organize maneuvers, distribute rewards to the military, and raise monuments to generals and successful commanders? Why do rich men of independent position consider it an honor to perform a valet's duties in attendance on crowned personages, flattering them and cringing to them and pretending to believe in their peculiar superiority? Why do men who have ceased to believe in the superstitions of the mediæval Church, and who could not possibly believe in them seriously and consistently, pretend to believe in and give their support to the demoralizing and blasphemous institution of the church? Why is it that not only governments but private persons of the higher classes, try so jealously to maintain the ignorance of the people? Why do they fall with such fury on any effort at breaking down religious superstitions or really enlightening the people? Why do historians, novelists, and poets, who have no hope of gaining anything by their flatteries, make heroes of kings, emperors, and conquerors of past times? Why do men, who call themselves learned, dedicate whole lifetimes to making theories to prove that violence employed by authority against the people is not violence at all, but a special right? One often wonders why a fashionable lady or an artist, who, one would think, would take no interest in political or military questions, should always condemn strikes of working people, and defend war; and should always be found without hesitation opposed to the one, favorable to the other
26. In reviewing past times, we cannot but perceive that it has been the desire of the Government to avoid being involved in the war with which Europe has been so long desolated, and by dealing out justice to the belligerents, respectively, with an impartial hand, to preserve our neutrality, permitting our citizens peacefully to pursue their private avocations, reaping the rich harvest arising from our neutral commerce
27. Past times have done their best to leave nothing for the present--not even a record
28. —, on the changes of climate on the earth in past times, xx, 377
