547 examples of survivals in sentences

Many plants, again, have had a superstitious connection, having in this respect exercised a powerful influence among the credulous of all ages, numerous survivals of which exist at the present day.

On closer view are to be detected in the midst of Christian activities older survivals, as ingredients of belief which, in spite of that religion, have not vanished.

Incidentally may be noted the one defect in Mr. Plummer's great workits author's almost irritating insistence on pagan origins, nature myths, and heathen survivals.

Mr. Clarkson whispered, "or are they the rudimentary survivals of the incense that used to counteract the smell and infection of gaol-fever?

Incidentally may be noted the one defect in Mr. Plummer's great workits author's almost irritating insistence on pagan origins, nature myths, and heathen survivals.

Of Varro's numerous works we have unluckily but few survivals; of Cicero's we have still such a mass as will for ever provide ample material for studying the life, the manners, the thought of his day.

The structure of the Elizabethan inn yard (you may see some survivals still, and there are the pictures in Pickwick) was very favourable for their purpose.

But Winckelmann might have groped a long time among the multitudes of antique survivals in search of the most valuable objects and those most worthy of his observation, if good fortune had not immediately brought him into contact with Mengs.

The conditions surrounding the employment of these first white workers were among those survivals from the eighteenth century, which still linger incongruously in our modern industrial organization.

" Survivals of the Past Stand at the Ferry Building, looking up Market street, and imagine the beginning of the city that spreads before you.

Seeking survivals of the past, you must realize that San Francisco is one of the most modern of the comparatively old American cities.

Here again the Prussian has no accidental merits, none of those lucky survivals, none of those late repentances, which make the patchwork glory of Russia.

Of course there were survivals and reactions, as we should expect.

There are survivals, of course, particularly in the East, where large districts still cling to their old superstitions; and there are even eminent men here and there who are not explicitly Catholics; but, as a whole, the world is Christian.

This quintain post is undoubtedly one of the most interesting survivals of the pastimes of the "good old days."

Winchelsea is a pretty place with massive gateways, survivals of the old fortified town.

But still, in spite of all these checks and drawbacks and evil survivals, the tide of humanitarianism flowed on, and gradually altered the aspect of English life.

I have, further, described certain survivals of an earlier and happier state of things, and indicated the forces now at work tending to lift the Holyoke of to-day, for example, to the social levels of old Lowell.

" SURVIVALS OF PROMISCUITY Since this chapter was written a new book on Australia has appeared which bears out the views here taken so admirably that I must insert a brief reference to its contents.

Survivals of ancient injustice and relics of feudal institutions that rest on no vital reason remain in our new country as well as in the older ones.

[710] "Old-time Survivals in remote Norwegian Dales," Folk-lore, xx. (1909) pp.

The principal antiquities of Somerset may be classified as (1) earthworks and other survivals of a primitive time; (2) the Roman remains at Bath and elsewhere; (3) the ecclesiastical and other buildings of the Middle Ages.

It was a labour of love, and it is full of records of singular survivals to our time of archaisms of all descriptions, culinary and gardening utensils not forgotten.

If so, the savage philosophy and its supposed survivals in belief will appear in a new light.

Now, the modern hallucinations themselves can scarcely, perhaps, be called 'survivals from savagery,' though the opinion that an hallucination of a person must be his 'spirit' is really such a survival.

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