It fixes upon a standard, the Cross; upon a Hero, the Christ, and reaches unto all the world its arm of power, drawing unto itself the loyalty, the faith, the affection, and the royal service of successive generations of mankind.

Distinguished alike for scholarship, physical and mental courage, subtlety of thought, humour of fancy, and fascinations of character, this young man seems to have made an impression on the undergraduates of his own, similar to that left by Charles Austin on those of a later generation.

He does not even seek praise, for it is the unborn generations that will call him blessed.

[from the semi-civilized Indians]; they walked with the free step of the independent forest-dweller ... original and self-sustaining as the wild animals of the forest ... living their own lives in their own way, as they had done for countless generations before America was discovered.

Fathers rejoicing to see their posterity of the fourth and fifth generations, will only drop like fruit fully ripe, at the extreme point of age!

That this "primordium oviforme" must needs, in all cases, proceed from a living parent is nowhere expressly maintained by Harvey, though such an opinion may be thought to be implied in one or two passages; while, on the other hand, he does, more than once, use language which is consistent only with a full belief in spontaneous or equivocal generation.

"The land is none so bad," said the Receiver, "but the people are a perverse generation.

These people, of whom so much has been written and handed down by word of mouth, and who were supposed by subsequent generations to be a race of servile demons, were, in reality, savage natives of surrounding countries, who were forced by the king to work on his great buildings and other enterprises, and who occupied very much the position of the coolies of the present day.

In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.

Here reprobation must become unqualified, and he appears one of the very worst men who ever exercised a commanding influence on a wicked and perverse generation.

Some hold that his pain endured unto the seventh generation, for he committed seven sins.

And first they had him into the study, where they showed him records of the greatest antiquity; in which, as I remember my dream, they showed him the pedigree of the Lord of the hill, that he was the Son of the Ancient of days, and came by that eternal generation.

The rebel generation.

And Tobias received all the heritage of the house of Raguel and saw the sons of his sons unto the fifth generation.

His favorite gods are those of the elder generation, the sons of heaven and earth, compared with whom Jupiter himself was a stripling and an upstart, the gigantic Titans, and the inexorable Furies.

Thus we have the series A.B.B.B ... BCA In this instance all the generations are asexual, but the most common case is for the sexual and the asexual generations to alternate.

And although no human habitation is anywhere to be seen, the air is full of the spirits of bygone generations and of bygone races of men.

Their nutriment for their brief existence is the intellectual atmosphere of the bystanders: or this last, is the fine slime of Nilusthe melior Lutis,whose maternal recipiency is as necessary as the sol pater to their equivocal generation.

The middle generation.

He meddled neither with physics nor metaphysics, but he earnestly and consistently strove to bring to light and to enforce those principles which had made remote generations wise and virtuous.

The revolutionary generation, 1763-1790.

But to the onlooker, they are all figures in a great designwoven into the terrible tapestry of war, and charged with a meaning that we of this actual generation shall never more than dimly see or understand.

And you, ye people, sing What deeds His arm hath wrought: Yea, let their tale be taught To endless generations.

So the tame duck, tame for unnumbered generations, hearing from afar the shrill cry of the wild drake, will desert her quiet surroundings, spread her little-used wings and become for a time the wildest of the wild.

Even like the Nile, he has vanquished the sands; he is the father of untold generations, the creative deity of a world as yet unknown, which in later times will enrich old Europe....