20615 examples of pasts in sentences
A woman with many pasts and no future" "Oh, come," broke in Goldberger impatiently, "keep your second-hand epigrams for the Record.
Indeed, does not the very fact of their recurrence, of them and of the hundreds of other types and temperaments, point implacably to the conclusion to which the historian, the philosopher and the biologist have driven us: that in the grip of an endless chain of pasts the human soul has no future?
But, my lords, I am willing to confess that they cannot judge of events to come with such unerring and demonstrative knowledge as their opponents can obtain of them after they have happened; and they are inclined to pay all necessary deference to the great sagacity of those wonderful prognosticators, who can so exactly foresee the past.
To search far backward for past errors, and to take advantage of later discoveries in censuring the conduct of any minister, is in a high degree disingenuous and cruel; it is an art which may be easily practised, of perplexing any question, by connecting distant facts, and entangling one period of time with another.
We would ill learn our history if we conclude that because we have quarrelled in the past, we are destined so to continue unless some such strong power like the British keep us by force of arms from flying at each other's throats.
In answer to questions put in the House of Commons, he is reported to have said that whilst he acknowledged that I had rendered distinguished services to the country in the past, he could not look upon my present attitude with equanimity and that it was not to be expected that I could now be treated as leniently as I was during the Rowlatt Act agitation.
The Punjab has wounded the heart of India as no other question has for the past century.
There is an allusion to this in an entry of a little later date. 7 mo. 8.My mind feels a little more gathered than it has been for some time past; but the little outward difficulties which are continually arising have a great tendency to disperse the best feelings.
On they sped between fragrant hedges, under whispering trees, past lonely cottages and farm-houses, past gate, and field, and wood, until the sun grew low.
By a vivid remembrance the experience of the past is made available to the present, so that we do not need actually to burn paper once more,we see the relation mentally.
Lots of dames I know have pasts.
His master quietly resumes his seat, procures fresh materials, and, though it is long past midnight, begins his task anew with that incomparable patience which is "his virtue.
He melts "pasts" and family skeletons and hidden stories of any kind whatsoever into the blue as a background with the abandoned preoccupation of his own brushwork.
The town, which was not supposed to ask about pasts, could not help puzzling about his.
Isn't it part of the custom of Little Rivers that pasts melt into the desert?
"Probably a part of that desert notion of freemasonry in keeping pasts a secret.
" "We've had our fill of the big city," said the Doge, feelingly, "and we are away to our little city of peace where we turned our pasts under with the first furrows in the virgin soil.
Isn't it ratheroh, unthrifty, to let pasts and futures spoil presents?
Isn't there a popular notion that our pasts have something to do with our futures?"
I'll try to dig up no pasts.
but against this counted strongly the constantly recurring revelations of the obscure pasts of many of the women whom she met during those days, women who were now shining, acknowledged firsts in the procession of success.
And if there is still a third interval it will be equally amusingly filled by conversation as to the pasts or costumes of the more famous of the female nobs who are presentan interchange of opinion as to the lowness of their necks, conjectures as to the genuineness of their hair, and so forth.
Old Howlandcalled Bill until his early career as a pedlar and keeper of a Cheap Jack bazaar was forgotten and who, after the great fire, which wiped out so many pasts and purified and pedigreed Chicago's present aristocracy, called himself William G. Howland, merchant prince, had, in his ideal character for a wealth-chaser, one weaknessa doting fondness for his daughter.
We should not attempt to comprise our pasts in the phrase, "in those days;" we should rather say "in those days and nights.
Or with what excitement she had watched each walk out, leaning on the arm of the man she had chosen and henceforth to be called his in ail things to the end while the loud crash of the wedding march closed their separate pasts with a single melody.